The nice part about Microsoft SQL Server Express is that unlike Oracle XE, you can count on getting updates. There hasn’t been an update to Oracle XE since, well never, and that is despite the fact that it has a gazillion security vulnerabilities that have been addressed in the paid versions of Oracle database. [...]
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When I started my career at IBM, I was convinced that this company had a language of its own. Last week at the IOD Conference in Las Vegas was reminded feedback from others that not only do we have a different vocabulary but we also make efforts to teach the rest of the world how to impress their friends and loved ones with a few words of IBMspeak. Unfortunately, on occasion, a little bit of knowledge can prove to be a dangerous thing. This is especially dangerous for people who use our free products like DB2 Express-C.
So [...]
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