EnterpriseDB cites enterprise capabilities in open source database Oct 15, 2009
4, EnterpriseDB also is offering a certification suite to ensure interoperability between the database and components such as JDBC and ODBC drivers. "We've enhanced our testing suite to ensure that all that stuff works together," Boyajian said. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Open source Hive: Large-scale, distributed data processing made easy Jul 24, 2009
A future version of Hive will include JDBC and ODBC drivers, at which time you will be able to create fully executable "Hive applications" in much the same way that you can write a Java database application for your favorite RDBMS. (The current version of Hive -- 0. 3. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
An Whitepaper: Introduction to Microsoft .NET Services for Developers Jun 28, 2009
NET, ADO.NET, and ODBC. Developers will be able to provision logical servers and database instances in the cloud and begin working with them using the same tools and technologies they use today. This is possible because Micrososft SQL Services supports the Tabular Data Stream (TDS) protocol, the same protocol used by SQL Server running on-premise. (IntranetJournal)
IBM eBook: DB2 pureXML Best Practices Jun 23, 2009
7 supports SQL, XQuery, XPath, CLPPlus, JDBC, SQLJ, ODBC, ADO. NET, CLI, OLE-DB, to name a few. (IntranetJournal)
More of this story May 13, 2009
ODBC Losers 2,331 minutes ... ODBC Losers 441,107 steps. (Westerly Sun, RI)
VASCO Launches IDENTIKEY Server 3.1 Apr 28, 2009
The data storage can be integrated in Active Directory (AD) or other ODBC compliant databases and it can perform LDAP lookup on AD, ADAM and eDirectory. Furthermore the administrator disposes of a single interface for authentication, user management, DIGIPASS management, delegated administration, multiple domain support, auditing and reporting. (PR Newswire)
Thumbs up to FileMaker upgrade Feb 24, 2009
I couldn't see how to do that using FileMaker's report generator, so I wrote a Python script to read the FileMaker database via ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) and turn each record into a Web page ... Unfortunately, many of the records in the second database were truncated in the process, which turned out to be the result of a bug in the ODBC driver ... (FileMaker Pro 10 has a newer ODBC driver, but I haven't yet tested it against the old databases. (InfoWorld)