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It’s official - Information Server 8.1 and DataStage absorbed by the InfoSphere

Kiss goodbye to Websphere branding on Information Server products, from release 8.1 on they will have the far superior Infosphere name.

Onkyo TX-NR905 AV Receiver - AVRev.com

Onkyo TX-NR905 AV Receiver AVRev.com, CA - 3 hours ago The inclusion of VLSC is reported to reduce digital pulse noise compared to conventional digital-to-analog conversion methods.

Summer is over, time to blog again.

Well it’s been quite some time since I have written a blog entry (shame on me). I decided back in June that I would take a breather from blogging, having been at it for 3 years now. I thought I would just take the summer off but look, it’s now October and I’m finally getting back to it (well technically September is still summer but it doesn’t usually feel like it up here in Toronto :-) . Well, I

Active Dataguard connections

Hi All, One of the features about which we are really excited in 11g is Active Dataguard. What we are talking about doing is having a primary 11g RAC (64 bit Linux) at our primary data center, and a standby 11g Dataguard RAC (64 bit Linux) at our remote data center. We would like to send traffic for updates to, of course, only the

Purge command

Hi, when I am connected to a 10.20.4 database with a 9i client, the purge command doesn't work: SP2-0734: unknown command beginning "purge dba_..." - rest of line ignored. Why ? The documentation says it is a SQL command Thanks in advance

Windows and SQL Server in the Cloud

LewisC's An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology Well, that didn't take very long. Not a week after Oracle announces they have databases running under AWS, Microsoft and Amazon announce the same thing for SQL Server. Can DB2 be far behind? What's eve...

New Source Control support in Information Server 8.1 and DataStage 8.1

Information Server 8.1 brings the long awaited deployment tool and source control support for DataStage and QualityStage.

More on SaaS: I'm in Good Company

In a previous post I gave a mild response to the popularity of cloud computing. Read the response of the founder of the Free Software Foundation.