Feb 20, 2012
The article talks about to be good performance of database is starts with a proper formulated SQL. According to Mullins, 75% of poor relational performance is caused by “bad” SQL and application code. For those people are new to programming especially for relational database environment it is very hard to remember and determine the problem [...]
Feb 20, 2012
The company that has promoted itself as the private and secure one has not been private or secure lately. Apple has been giving out people’s address books. Due to privacy slips they will continue doing this for weeks to come. But it’s not only Apple who has focused on other things other than security, Google, [...]
Feb 20, 2012
Last week we started talking about ASP.NET. We just started the topic and didn’t go into more details. Therefore, I decided to talk about an article which talks about the advantages of ASP.NET. ASP.NET stands for Active Server Pages .NET and is developed by Microsoft. ASP.NET allows programmers and developers to build dynamic, rich web [...]
Feb 20, 2012
Will we not need to go to Las Vegas to gamble in the future? Might be, since a casino-specific cloud has been built in the US, in a further sign of the trend towards industry-tailored software as a service solutions. International Game Technology (IGT) is building casino software through the cloud by using the AppLogic cloud computing platform from CA Technologies. Chris [...]
Feb 20, 2012
Just five years ago, the Smithsonian Institution started collecting data about every living thing on earth. The planet has an approximate 1.9 million species of living organisms on earth. Currently the researchers have collected around 40% of the total species. The database includes observations such as describing the nocturnal behavior of the flying lemur, and maps [...]
Feb 20, 2012
My article is talking about Google Chrome’s new features. Apparently, Chrome has announced that some new games would run only in Chrome 14 that uses the browser’s Native Client capability. Google added a new Chrome-only feature that allows the browser to run applications programmed in hardcore languages like C and C++ as opposed to the [...]
Feb 20, 2012
For this week’s blog I found an article from the Journal of Management Information Systems. The article presented an interesting question in research and development. When working in a dynamic environment like in the Information Technology industry, new technologies are vital to the survival of your company. The problem is new technology involves expensive research [...]
Feb 20, 2012
With cyber crime on the rise, database administrators must do everything they can to prevent data from being compromised. This article introduces a new product called ActiveCrypt DBDefence which is designed to lock down database log files inside 32 and 64 bit systems on SQL Server 2000, 2005, and 2008. The enterprise eidition of DBDefence [...]
Feb 20, 2012
This article shows an example of an application of Database Technology based on XML used for nuclear fuel calculation. Originally the nuclear fuel calculation software was based on the “ancient” FORTRAN language. It compares the old file system with the database system which gives it a few advantages. Such as Data sharing and low redundancy. Then introduces [...]
Feb 20, 2012
2012 is going to be a big year for Microsoft’s SQL server. It going to get a huge overhaul and cloud support this year. The explosive increase of data is forcing SQL server to change the way of managing and storing data. Up and coming solid state drive usage have spike recently as a new [...]
Feb 20, 2012
In the article that I read, James Cohen goes over a massive web attack dubbed the “LizaMoon.” The attack was made possible due to an SQL Flaw in which malicious code was injected into the SQL databases that ran many websites. This would then direct users browsers to a new site where a fake antivirus [...]
Feb 20, 2012
This article is about how the new edition of Joomla has now made it possible to use Microsoft SQL Server, PostGreSQL, and MySQL. This multi-database support has become a great plus for business owners that use Joomla for their websites. There won’t be as much hassle by being limited to just one database structure. This [...]
Feb 20, 2012
The article I read this week dealt with how financial services customers are benefiting from Windows Server OS and Microsoft Server SQL. A company called, Skandinavisk Data Center (SDC), which services more than 150 banks is hoping to save around 20 million dollars annually by switching from its mainframe platform to Windows Server OS and [...]
Feb 20, 2012
The article, “Writing SQL Statements That Use Joins to Combine Data from Multiple Tables”, is briefly related to our this week class materials which are combining data from multiple tables by using joins. Where clause is used to bring data from more than one table into a set of query. If it does not include [...]
Feb 20, 2012
Microsoft is gearing up to release a new slew of technologies that help developers create server based apps. All of the products mentioned in the article are currently in their beta releases and are anticipated to be released within the next year. The trio of tools has been designed with flexibility in mind, as more [...]
Feb 20, 2012
Database Administrators are one of the most sought after jobs for CIS majors once they graduate. In the article that I chose today, the author sets up a guide on how to become an effective DBA, while also doing a good job with pointing out common problems that are found within DBA’s that tend to [...]
Feb 20, 2012
This week I have chosen another peer-reviewed article discussing new business intelligence (BI) functionality and management features that will be or has been implemented into SQL already. Referring to the “mini-release” as code name Kilimanjaro, this release has the potential to really innovate the way businesses apporach SQL and it’s DBMS capabilities. Some of the [...]
Feb 20, 2012
As with all new products hitting the market or old products getting an update. There will always be some sort of vulnerability that rises up. The vulnerability that was brought up on this article was the issue with hash tables. In a nut shell Hash tables are what allow for retrieval of Data in a [...]
Feb 20, 2012
Any database that does no support the SQL language is known as an NoSQL database. NoSQL was inspired and created based off Lotus notes, a program that was co-created by Lotus founder Mitch Kapor and Microsoft chief architect Ray Ozzie as a personal productivity tool. Lotus notes was never thought to be a database application; [...]
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