Review: SearchFit Combines Storefront with SEO Jul 3, 2008
The system provides web services via XML to conduct external and internal database queries and connect to most database systems. To assist in setup, SearchFit can perform bulk imports of products, categories and category type data. (eSecurityPlanet)
Weber: I wasn't told of feds May 11, 2008
Typically, once drug-dealing suspects were identified, agents conducted database queries to establish current addresses and other details about their activities. They contacted San Diego Gas & Electric Co. to check names on utility accounts at various apartments. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Hitachi Enterprise Hard Drive Establishes New Performance and Capacity Standards Apr 16, 2008
The Ultrastar 15K450 is an ideal solution for mission-critical server and storage applications, such as online transaction processing, intensive database queries and other multi-user applications. The Ultrastar 15K450 is a performance leader, with Hitachi tests indicating a 30 percent improvement in sequential throughput over its predecessor. (BusinessWire)
* Gates helps build 'world's biggest digital camera' Jan 6, 2008
Gates, one of the world's richest men, said the telescope would turn astronomy into a software issue by writing code and database queries to mine the night sky and recover its secrets. "LSST is truly an internet telescope which will put terabytes of data each night into the hands of anyone that wants to explore it. [It is] a shared resource for all humanity -- the ultimate network peripheral device to explore the universe," he said. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Google handed patent setback Dec 28, 2007
One such case, brought by Northeastern University in Boston and by Jarg, a company in Massachusetts that develops distributed search technologies, for a method of breaking database queries into fragments and distributing them to multiple computers to get search results faster. Google has until Jan. 11 to file a response in that case. (InfoWorld)
Amazon opens testing for in-cloud database Dec 15, 2007
December 14, 2007 11:26 AM PST. Update 2:20 p.m. PST: I added some more details and a reaction. (CNET News.com)
The urologic epithelial stem cell database (UESC) - a web tool for cell type-specific gene expression and immunohistochemistry images of the prostate and bladder Dec 12, 2007
UESC provides for database queries and tools to examine cell type-specific gene expression (normal vs. cancer), whereas most other databases contain only whole tissue expression datasets. The CD data allows for comparison of concordance between gene and protein expression findings. (BioMed Central)
BETA Records Bridges the Gap between PHP and JAVA to Solve Performance and Scalability Issues Nov 16, 2007
PHP applications require a means of caching data from remote services, expensive database queries and other performance-killing operations. These problems are greatly magnified by Web 2. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Northeastern sues Google over patent Nov 10, 2007
The patent covers a method for chopping up database queries into multiple portions and having each part processed by a different computer. This allows for much faster searching of huge databases, like Google's vast index of Web pages on the Internet. (Boston Globe)
Oracle 11g Streamlines Management Oct 17, 2007
Oracle's Database 11g Streamlines Management. Oracle's Database 11g Streamlines Management. (eWeek)
U.S. Law Enforcement Gains Direct Access To INTERPOL Criminal Databases Sep 13, 2007
The USNCB is pursuing agreements with each state to incorporate INTERPOL database queries for all NLETS users within a state's jurisdiction. LESC joins an ever-expanding list of U.S. police departments having direct query access through existing law enforcement networks: New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston, Miami-Dade, Houston, San Diego, Los Angeles and most recently the Virginia State Police. (PR Newswire)
Measuring Storage Performance Apr 13, 2007
These workloads include the processing of large files, large database queries and video on demand. "The SPC-1 Toolkit has been purchased by some number of non-members for internal measurements, and we anticipate that to also be the case when the SPC-2 Toolkit is released for non-member purchase," says Baker. (EnterpriseStorageForum)
Google's Bosworth: Why AJAX Failed (Then Succeeded) Jan 31, 2007
2 and chips were 100 times slower than today," he said. Also, most applications either needed a large or unpredictable amount of data to flow over them or really fast on-demand loading of data, Bosworth said. "In short, real apps were hideously slow," he said. The "physics" limitations hampered JavaScript, and the alternative, Java, "was just too slow to have to move everything through a VM virtual machine ," Bosworth said. To illustrate his point, Bosworth asked the audience to imagine a... (eWeek)
Google signs on to huge new telescope Jan 9, 2007
"Google's ability to do large database queries and to service that data is unmatched, I would say," said Donald Sweeney, manager of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, or LSST.. The involvement of Google should provide the project a huge boost in terms of public support. (ZDNet)
Google teams with scientists on real-time moving space images Jan 6, 2007
"Google's ability to do large database queries and to service that data is unmatched, I would say," said Donald Sweeney, manager of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, or LSST.. Google's broad public imprint should also bring more mainstream attention to the project, which could be crucial as the $350 million telescope competes for public and private money. (Seattle Post Intelligencer)
UCLA warns 800,000 of computer break-in Dec 13, 2006
The attacks on the database began in October 2005 and ended Nov. 21 of this year, when computer security technicians noticed suspicious database queries, according to a statement posted on a school Web site set up to answer questions about the theft. advertisement. (MSNBC -- News)
UCLA Warns 800,000 About Network Attack Dec 13, 2006
The attacks began in October 2005 and continued until last month, when computer security technicians noticed suspicious database queries. The acting chancellor at the university said the database includes Social Security numbers, home addresses and birth dates, but there is no evidence that any data has been misused. (Click2Houston, TX)
UCLA gets hacked Dec 13, 2006
The attacks in October 2005 and ended Nov. 21 of this year, when computer security technicians noticed suspicious database queries, according to a statement posted on a school website set up to answer questions about the theft. ID ATTACK. (USA Today -- Tech)
Lessons from the UCLA Hack Attack Dec 13, 2006
UCLA computer security technicians noticed a suspicious number of database queries on Nov. 21, and after a quick investigation, discovered that a hacker had accessed records fraudulently all the way back to October of 2005. The university blocked further access to the private data and hired a consultant to help figure out how it happened. (Time.com)
Chipping away at freedom Dec 7, 2006
Now, anyone who has made a thorough examination of the system knows that any widespread use of ID cards at points of sale, or to authorise cheques, bank payments or other transactions, or to permit access to specific areas or even computers, will permit easy, if partial, geographic tracking via database queries. But I'm guessing that this isn't what alarms the public - and in fact the YouGov question specifically refers to the use of "chips in identity cards to track movements". (Guardian Unlimited)
Hacker Discovers Adobe PDF Back Doors Sep 19, 2006
"The second attack accesses the Windows ODBC (on localhost), enumerates available databases and then sends this information to 'localhost' via the Web service. This attack could be expanded to perform actual database queries. Imagine attackers accessing your internal databases via a user's Web browser," he said. Kierznowski claims there are at least seven more points in PDF files where an attacker can launch malicious code. (eWeek)
Ru-roh, Shaggy! "Second Life" Snafu... Sep 14, 2006
However, there is no way to identify which data were accessed at the level of individual users, only the aggregate size of the downloads returned from the intruding database queries. We are conducting further investigation to try to determine the class of data exposed. (Warcry.com)
Best practices in data warehouse storage: Jun 15, 2006
g., ) and good storage performance should always be considered, but data warehouse workload patterns generally favor fast sequential reads, rather than the random I/O often encountered with file systems and database queries ... g., ) and good storage performance should always be considered, but data warehouse workload patterns generally favor fast sequential reads, rather than the random I/O often encountered with file systems and database queries. (Search Storage)
The open source evolution May 9, 2006
This unusual form of clustering -- among the mainstream commercial database vendors, only IBM DB2 can do this -- can dramatically improve the performance of a data warehouse by dividing up the work for complex database queries among multiple nodes on a cluster. By comparison, Oracle RAC (Real Application Clusters) uses a "shared everything" approach, which replicates all the data across all the database nodes, dramatically improving reliability but doing little to increase performance. (InfoWorld)
I Love Your New Web 2.0 App ... Now Fix It! Mar 25, 2006
First it has to treat the Web as a platform, not just a place to plop information or run database queries. Next, it has to take into account the fact that the Web is a networked platform and that the best results come from recognizing these connections and facilitating them through social features such as tagging and collaboration. (eWeek)
Web Services Yields Fresh Approach on Perishable Product Feb 22, 2006
Today, when the order is ready, the Web services system sends a message to begin processing, instead of database queries trying to find the order. Add Baseline Update to your or. (eWeek)
