Data breaches and exposures have become so common these days, it's difficult to keep track of them all, much less step back to mull a solution. But, perhaps out of necessity, researchers from the ...

IBM has surpassed Oracle as the leading seller of database-management software, according to a new study. IBM captured 34.6 percent of the revenue in the overall database market in 2001, up from 33.7 ...

When I was a young man—a long, long time ago now—I worked as an Oracle DBA (Oracle version 6, if you must know). I remember my astonishment at finding out that information in the database was stored ...

Database professionals are the backbone of any modern company. They are responsible for managing, organizing, and analyzing vast (and rapidly increasing) amounts of information. Their work helps ...

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First off, I am not a VB programmer. At my office one of our employees needed an update to an old program they use to update an Access database. The user has a form that lists different fields ...

The first thing in building any E-commerce app is creating the underlying database to support it. As much as possible, you should try to build your application code and business logic into your ...

Is it possible to set the number of characters in a field of a table to be unlimited? <br><br>Using SQL Server 2000. <br><br>Thanks.<br><br>We are worried that user ...