Category: databases
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O’Reilly Media book: Oracle Essentials, 5th edition
Oracle Essentials: Written by experienced Oracle insiders, this easy-to-read volume covers every aspect of the Oracle database for readers of all technical levels. The book includes information on Oracle’s product line, architecture, data structures, networking, concurrency, tuning and more.
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Poke disables Oracle’s database auditing – The H Security: News and Features
Poke disables Oracle’s database auditing – The H Security: News and Features: A command that is known from the BASIC programming language apparently allows unauthorised users to disable the auditing functions of Oracle databases. Experts think that this renders products which are based on these functions, such as Oracle Audit Vault, “nearly useless”
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database tools using JDBC
http://jan-lolling.de – find the download links for his software SQLRunner here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBeaver https://dbeaver.io https://www.dbvis.com – DbVisualizer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JDBC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JDBC_driver
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another column-oriented database: Apache Cassandra
I came across an article at H-Open on Apache Cassandra. The Cassandra project was actually started by Facebook, but then open sourced and “donated” to Apache, and Facebook got a Gold Sponsor of Apache. The article also includes a hint on Google’s BigTable. “Cassandra is used by a number of other companies, such as Cisco, Twitter,…
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column-oriented databases
I read this article on InfiniDB, and I thought, it would help at least myself, if I took a note on it here. The centrepiece of InfiniDB is a column-oriented back end (“engine”) . MySQL database 5.1.39 serves as the basis of InfiniDB and comes linked to the back end. Since there is no indication…