Tag Archives: Database

What’s going to happen to MySQL?

Now that Oracle has bought Sun Microsystem, what is going to happen to MySQL? Are they going to leave it as it is (as open source and free) to cover the small businesses or are they going to scrap it … Continue reading

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Ora_Tweet – Tweet from Oracle database using PLSQL

Ora_tweet is a PL/SQL Twitter API that can be used to send messages from your Oracle database to your twitter account. It might come handy for DBAs who twitters a lot. This is the first version and all it does … Continue reading

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Ubuntu forums down

Ubuntu forums down due to database corruption.

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SQL Developer 1.5 connection setting lost

If you work with Oracle Database, then you might have heard about SQL Developer. SQL Developer is a free graphical tool for database development. I use this for some of my Oracle work. It’s a decent tool and it’s free. … Continue reading

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SUN to acquire MySQL

Sun Microsystems announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire MySQL, a popular open source database. Sun will pay about $800 million in cash for MySQL‘s privately held stock and will assume about $200 million worth of … Continue reading

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Oracle releases virtualization software

Oracle today unveiled a server virtualization software which supports both Oracle and non Oracle applications. Oracle VM is free and available for both Windows and Linux. Oracle products including Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion middleware and Oracle Applications are certified to … Continue reading

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