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The second that was added to 2008 to adjust for the slowing of the earth's rotation is causing problems with Oracle's Cluster Ready Services software, according to a support document issued by the vendor.

Amazon.com is offering a new option for its Simple Storage Service, or S3, that lets data owners shift the cost of accessing their information to other people or businesses.

The latest FileMaker database version includes the first massive interface makeover in about 10 years.

The company wouldn't say whether it's had a patch in hand since September, as one security researcher charges.

Customers are showing interest in Oracle's recently announced products for high-end data warehousing, but it will be some time before that enthusiasm makes a significant impact on the vendor's bottom line, CEO Larry Ellison said this week.

Marten Mickos, who heads Sun's database group, said public criticism of the release of MySQL 5.1 by MySQL co-founder Michael Widenius 'is part of being an open-source company.'

Marten Mickos, who heads Sun's database group, said MySQL co-founder Michael Widenius' public criticism of the release of MySQL 5.1 'is part of being an open-source company.'

Zoho, maker of an on-demand suite of business and productivity applications, on Tuesday announced CloudSQL, a new service that lets developers use the ubiquitous SQL to connect Zoho data with either cloud-based or on-premises applications.

Oracle has contributed data integrity protection code, partly developed with the hardware vendor Emulex, to the Linux kernel, the vendors announced Tuesday.

Amazon Web Services has opened its online database service for public beta testing and said a certain level of usage will be free, at least for now.

MapReduce reportedly took six hours and two minutes to sort 1 petabyte of data -- equivalent to 12 times the amount of archived Web data in the U.S. Library of Congress as of May 2008.

The National Archives received only 32 million e-mails from the Clinton administration eight years ago, but in a few months, it expects to get hit with 50 times that from the Bush administration, which has exacerbated the problem by dragging its feet in supplying the data.

David DeWitt retired from the Computer Science Department at the University of Wisconsin last year, but he's already returned, this time as head of a new database research center located on the Madison campus and funded primarily by Microsoft.

Sun has upgraded MySQL Enterprise, its subscription-based service for the open-source MySQL database, adding access to a query analysis tool for tracking and fixing problematic code and performance issues.

Microsoft officials today demonstrated an upcoming tool aimed at enabling database administrators to manage hundreds of database servers at a time.

Ingres has shipped a big update for its open-source database.

For the Federal Election Commission, enforcing campaign finance laws and making financing data publicly accessible requires a vast server farm, multiple levels of databases and a variety of security tools.

The best SQL Server release to date, it sports more nice new features than you can count, and the improvements extend to both performance and manageability. Whether you manage an OLTP environment or an OLAP environment, or both, you will most likely find Katmai compelling.

Oracle is buying user-profiling technology to give its Beehive collaboration system a boost.