ZD Net (Free subscription) | yesterday
Richard Muirwood, CEO of Tideway Systems, and I had our semi-annual chat the other day. Tideway's Tideway Foundationâ¢is a management tool making it possible for organizations to get a clear understanding of the underlying physical and virtual infrastructure supporting their business applications. They call what they do "dependency mapping." ...
Cnet (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Curated search engine adds news desk, live blog, anchor desk, and chat room.
Database Journal (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
This installment of our series focuses on establishing, conducting, and terminating a sample Service Broker dialog in a distributed environment, leveraging previously established routes and dialog-level permission.
Cnet (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
The Internet colossus has begun opening another direct revenue spigot: text ads that show up when people search at Google Maps.
Cnet (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
New CardPress service provides a hosted application for associations, organizations, and merchants wanting to issue information cards.
Cnet (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
The picture on energy policy is getting a bit more clear at two events this week--the candidates' town hall debate and a debate between their energy advisors at MIT.
Cnet (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Seeing the complicated inner workings of a disassembled Canon 17-85mm zoom lens makes the $500 price tag of this midrange model easier to stomach.
Database Journal (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Part 1 of this series discussed how to prepare for SQL Server cluster installation on a two-node Windows Server 2003 cluster. This installment explains how to install SQL Server Database Engine on the cluster using the Integrated Installation option.
Database Journal (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Isolate worst / lowest performers from the member population at large, and perform sophisticated analysis with BottomCount(). Join MSAS Architect Bill Pearson in the first of a pair of articles focusing upon the powerful BottomCount() function, where we experience hands-on some of the possible ways it can offer multi-perspective decision support.
Database Journal (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
This article examines backing up and restoring SQL Server databases. In addition to covering standard backup options such as Full Backups and Differential Backups, new SQL Server 2008 features such as Backup Compression will be introduced.
Database Journal (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Oracle's new ADR with command interface shows promise for DBAs to quickly investigate diagnostic information. This article takes a deeper look at ADRCI's commands.
ZD Net (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
As part of the occasional series Life in post-Constitutional America I'm pleased to offer a brief primer on How to read your FBI file. It isn't as easy as you'd think, since the FBI has failed several times to create a modern data management system - which may not be...
Database Journal (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Part 6 of this series examines how to check all of the databases available in the SQL Server instance and query the database properties.
Database Journal (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
This article discusses a new Oracle Database 11gR1 feature - Adaptive Cursor Sharing - and illustrates how to use it in practical situations to limit hard parsing of SQL statements with bind variables while increasing the relative execution efficiency of those statements.
Database Journal (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
Data Collections are a great tool that allows DBAs to gather different statistics, and the Management Data Warehouse (MDW) is the repository for storing those statistics. This article offers an overview of Data Collections and how to configure the MDW.
