The company is advising businesses to use an information cleaning product from UK start-up Number Master to ensure that all phone numbers stored in databases are in the correct format. It applies to all relational databases, not just DB2.
Microsoft has released SQL Server 2000, its flagship database product, to manufacturing and announced that more than 100 enterprise customers will be going live with the system over the next three months.
Many SQL databases hold customer data, and the worm highlighted that the data hasn't been safe, said Ullrich. More than 120,000 computers became infected by a worm over the weekend which brought the internet to a standstill for many and caused...
Many questions indicated demand for Linux versions of Microsoft's applications, such as Internet Information Server for delivering web pages, Office for word processing and other desktop tasks, Internet Explorer for browsing the Web, and SQL...
While tools now exist to ease the technical side of a migration, these are only capable of handling about four-fifths of the work, the rest of which must be done manually, Yuhanna noted. The market for open-source databases is booming due to new...
Both licensing questions and vendor viability were cited by 48 per cent of participants as significant concerns that may be keeping potential customers from making a commitment. For instance, a Forrester Research survey earlier this month found the...