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NHS GP data grab: Royal College of General Practitioners urges health body to communicate better

We've kind of got a lot going on right now with vaccinating etc... maybe you could do the comms bit, huh?

01 Jun 2021 12:17 | 16

Databases

Google drinks from Oracle's pond: SQL system log slurp part of grand data-sharing vision

There are 'advantages', but you must submit to 'the Google way of doing things,' warns analyst

28 May 2021 16:29 | 6

Build

Microsoft unveils its latest Cosmos DB lure for developers: More free stuff and an emulator for Linux

Also: ~~Blockchain~~ Ledger for Azure SQL Database

25 May 2021 19:59 | 4

Databases

Conflicting messaging overshadows NHS Digital's attempts to inform public about patient data slurp

Which opt-out is the right opt-out? Are they selling data or not?

24 May 2021 09:47 | 51

Databases

Graph databases to map AI in massive exercise in meta-understanding

Is Gartner ahead of its time, or just bonkers? You. Be. The. Judge.

20 May 2021 10:02 | 10

Databases

PlanetScale grabs YouTube-developed open-source tech, promises Vitess DBaaS with on-the-fly schema changes

Demand growing for scale-y transactional monster, say analysts

18 May 2021 14:15 |

Databases

Unit4 handed police ERP deal after 'significant deficiency' found in Oracle Fusion system

Big Red product only went live in 2019, but commissioner is ready to ditch it

18 May 2021 10:03 | 12

Databases

Oracle sues Envisage claiming unauthorized database use amid licensing crackdown

Fiscal year end forecast: Cloudy with a chance of litigation

17 May 2021 13:03 | 27

Databases

Rapping otters and automated database knob-twiddling: An obvious combination in some universe or other

OtterTune to compete with Oracle automation, but also for open source databases

14 May 2021 10:45 | 4

Databases

SAP co-founder's charitable arm made investments in a joint venture with the software giant

Foundation is 'passive investor' alongside private equity firm Dediq, firm says

12 May 2021 14:38 | 5

Updated

Jaguar Land Rover reaches for graph database in search of supply chain knowledge during chip shortage

Top dog Neo4j just wouldn't scale, says car giant's data boss

10 May 2021 10:01 | 15

Databases

Xpand your horizons: MariaDB launches distributed query engine into proprietary DBaaS

But beware lock-in-as-a-service, consultant warns

07 May 2021 19:51 |

Updated

Highways England seeks vendor to replace Windows 2003-based pavement management systems

Whoever came up with the SWEEP acronym can have a job at El Reg

06 May 2021 08:30 | 24

Databases

Aerospike adds set indexing and SQL expressions to make the distributed NoSQL database more ML-friendly

New Spark 3.0 connector will appeal to users too, analyst says

05 May 2021 18:10 |

Databases

UK's Department for Work and Pensions continues to move off Oracle Enterprise Data Warehouse in pursuit of a single version of the truth

Redshift, Cloudera among preferred platforms, but after 7 years Big Red's system refuses to die

05 May 2021 08:06 | 7

Databases

Stuck in R/3verse: East Sussex County Council struggles to move forward with £25m SAP replacement

Hardware supporting ageing system is mired in performance issues

04 May 2021 08:30 | 14

Databases

Transport Scotland has £47m to drag its traffic management systems into the 21st century

Existing supplier was first contracted back in the 1990s

27 Apr 2021 10:01 | 10

Databases

You only love me for my cache: New modules try to make NoSQL Redis more of a general-purpose database

7.0 out second half of the year

21 Apr 2021 17:09 | 1

Databases

Oracle cuts support for South African energy biz Eskom in long-running licensing dispute

'Eskom should pay the pending dues for the Oracle software that they use'

19 Apr 2021 11:43 | 14

Databases

Oracle pumps $1.2bn into Nashville campus as search for southern comfort goes on

Mayor thrilled with $175m up front for Guitar Town infrastructure projects

15 Apr 2021 17:19 | 2

Databases

Google proposes Logica data language for building more manageable SQL code

COBOL-inspired caps lock English just don't add up when dealing with large SQL codebases

15 Apr 2021 10:25 | 93

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SAP's operating profits might be down but cloud-fixated ERP biz thinks things are looking up enough to hike full-year guidance

Shrugs off 21% slump – that's just infra shift, share awards

14 Apr 2021 16:01 | 2

Databases

Redis Labs doubles value to $2bn in 9 months with $110m Series G funding round

SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 steps up to boost the coffers of NoSQL database biz

07 Apr 2021 16:27 | 1

Databases

No payrise for Oracle CEO Safra Catz, but at least there's $76.4m from trading company shares to fall back on

That and the $950k salary

31 Mar 2021 09:18 | 14

Databases

MoJ cancels £100m ERP procurement to get in line with UK government shared service strategy

Hmmm. Shared services... that always works out really well, right?

29 Mar 2021 08:45 | 8

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SAP community suggestions for on-prem database canned as app giant looks cloudwards

We've taken your comments on board but...

26 Mar 2021 11:36 | 8

Databases

Oracle gets the bunting out for UK Home Office's Fusion go-live amid enterprise software shakeup across Whitehall

Idea was to shift all departments to Big Red's cloud, but some are on Microsoft, Workday, SAP, Integra, and so on

24 Mar 2021 12:23 | 1

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Dutch enterprise software outfit Unit4 acquired for $2bn in private equity takeover

Existing leadership to continue while majority shareholder exits stake

22 Mar 2021 15:34 |

Databases

Low-risk AND rapid? Brit vaccine centre seeks ERP to meet accelerated schedule, and needs it yesterday

Org was originally supposed to launch in 2022 – then a pandemic happened

15 Mar 2021 11:01 | 4

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The first rule of ERP? Don't talk about ERP: App-maker IFS reckons market has moved on

'It's something that we, as an industry, invented' but all customers wanted were end-to-end business processes

11 Mar 2021 17:06 | 6

Updated

You wouldn’t know my new database, she goes to another school: Oracle boasts of earthshattering tech the outside world cannot see

Plus: Ellison ramps up SAP trash-talking. At least some things are the same in 2021

11 Mar 2021 13:12 | 10

Databases

SAP boss Christian Klein's pay cheque is considerably lighter after 2020 woes wiped €28bn off company's value

Here's what you could have won

09 Mar 2021 12:42 | 9

Databases

Swedish startup Logical Clocks takes a crack at scaling MySQL backend for live recommendations

Takes a 'different approach' to YouTube's Vitess to munch complex transactions in microseconds

09 Mar 2021 09:30 | 2

Ignite

Analyse this: Microsoft promises OLAP-OLTP 'Link' with new CosmosDB features

Azure SQL Data Warehouse

03 Mar 2021 18:35 |

Databases

IBM settles £36m Direct Line insurance platform project lawsuit, after claiming Teradata tried to usurp its spot

Terms of deal not disclosed as Big Blue insists it wasn't wrong, but merely didn't follow design standards

03 Mar 2021 09:30 | 16

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Would you Looker that: Google bakes in BigQuery caching layer to boost BI interactivity

'BigQuery is pretty fast anyway so you'd really need to value the extra speed'

01 Mar 2021 18:33 |

Databases

DataStax 'pauses' AIOps database project to figure out exactly what AIOps is

Some enterprise folk less keen on cloudy machine learning

23 Feb 2021 09:36 | 5

Databases

Time to haul DBaaS: Neo4j joins the fully managed club as doubts linger about its cloudiness

It was a first mover for graph DBs, but cloud is full of rivals

27 Jan 2021 18:43 | 1

Databases

Dynamic Data do-over denied: Judge upholds $7m patent infringement claim against Microsoft

Shenanigans called on ASP.NET scaffolding tech

26 Jan 2021 20:09 | 10

Databases

Teasing HANA database upgrade, SAP leaves crowd wondering if software giant has lost its innovation mojo

Great to know they 'remain committed'

14 Jan 2021 20:10 | 3

Databases

Theranos destroyed crucial subpoenaed SQL blood test database, can't unlock backups, prosecutors say

CEO Holmes also accused of funding extravagant lifestyle through fraud

12 Jan 2021 03:28 | 61

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Ethical power supplier People's Energy hacked, 250,000 customers' personal info accessed

Financial info swiped for 15 small-biz clients, too

17 Dec 2020 21:06 | 32

Databases

75% of databases to be cloud-hosted by 2022, says Gartner while dishing on the weak points of each provider

AWS 'reluctant to embrace a multicloud world' but Azure 'often more expensive than on-premises'

02 Dec 2020 14:30 | 28

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MongoDB loses its mind with marketing budget movie mania: Yep, it's choose-your-own-adventure Hackers with drop-down menus

This must have cost a packet...

25 Nov 2020 09:03 | 12

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Redis becomes the most popular database on AWS as complex cloud application deployments surge

No diggity, NoSQL

23 Nov 2020 15:22 | 16

Databases

Databricks: Ugh, just look at that messy data lake environment. Squints. You know... we could sort that out with a sweet shot of SQL

Data-wrangler previews another lakehouse concept tool

13 Nov 2020 19:32 |

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Banking software firm tiptoes off to the cloud with MariaDB after $2m Oracle licence shocker

Licence to float...

10 Nov 2020 13:04 | 62

Databases

MongoDB rolls out pick 'n' mix multi-cloud DBaaS, hopes to win over footdraggers by playing well with AWS, Google, Microsoft

Falls short as a generalist database playa, though, says analyst

20 Oct 2020 17:02 | 6

Databases

Adventures in SQL Server 2019: Microsoft updates the update that broke the update

I don't know why she swallowed the fly...

02 Oct 2020 19:06 | 4

Interview

Couchbase set to bring app multi-tenancy to its NoSQL document-store database

7.0 release will give devs power to lay out their microservice architecture

02 Oct 2020 10:00 | 8

Register Debate

Should we all consolidate databases for the storage benefits? Reg vultures deploy DevOps, zoos, haircuts

As the wisdom of the crowd decides

18 Sep 2020 12:00 | 11

Register Debate

Storage consolidation: Simplifying infrastructure will pay dividends for your apps

And let me tell you why in three words: Developers! Developers! Developers!

16 Sep 2020 18:00 | 1

Register Debate

Storage consolidation: Why different flavors of database need different types of storage

You can bring a horse to water but you can't turn it into a fish

16 Sep 2020 14:00 | 6

Databases

Aerospike drags mainframes kicking and screaming into the modern world by feeding their data through Apache Spark

ML, analytics connector reduces memory demand, says database firm

16 Sep 2020 08:30 | 6

Reader survey

If you're modernizing your complex database stack and keep glancing at better storage, you're not alone

We polled you IT pros out there on your info silo plans – and here are the results

15 Sep 2020 22:23 | 1

Register Debate

Consolidating databases has significant storage benefits – and therefore everyone should be doing it

Save yourself money, save yourself space

14 Sep 2020 18:00 | 12

Register Debate

Database consolidation is a server gain. Storage vendors should butt out

Cost benefits are oversold – and may be completely wrong

14 Sep 2020 13:00 | 17

Databases

Open-source database outfit Redis Labs grabs $100m funding as it seeks to be about more than just cold, hard cache

'If speed is not important, there are 300 other solutions'

25 Aug 2020 13:35 | 6

Databases

SQLite maximum database size increased to 281TB – but will anyone need one that big?

An unlikely requirement for an engine popular on Android and iOS

19 Aug 2020 08:07 | 60

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Deep-root database: Kew Garden's 8 million specimen collection to find new life through data management

Finally, a digital transformation that really matters

13 Aug 2020 10:11 | 18

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NHS GP data grab: Royal College of General Practitioners urges health body to communicate better

Google drinks from Oracle's pond: SQL system log slurp part of grand data-sharing vision

Microsoft unveils its latest Cosmos DB lure for developers: More free stuff and an emulator for Linux

Conflicting messaging overshadows NHS Digital's attempts to inform public about patient data slurp

Graph databases to map AI in massive exercise in meta-understanding

PlanetScale grabs YouTube-developed open-source tech, promises Vitess DBaaS with on-the-fly schema changes

Unit4 handed police ERP deal after 'significant deficiency' found in Oracle Fusion system

Oracle sues Envisage claiming unauthorized database use amid licensing crackdown

Rapping otters and automated database knob-twiddling: An obvious combination in some universe or other

SAP co-founder's charitable arm made investments in a joint venture with the software giant

Jaguar Land Rover reaches for graph database in search of supply chain knowledge during chip shortage

Xpand your horizons: MariaDB launches distributed query engine into proprietary DBaaS

Highways England seeks vendor to replace Windows 2003-based pavement management systems

Aerospike adds set indexing and SQL expressions to make the distributed NoSQL database more ML-friendly

UK's Department for Work and Pensions continues to move off Oracle Enterprise Data Warehouse in pursuit of a single version of the truth

Stuck in R/3verse: East Sussex County Council struggles to move forward with £25m SAP replacement

Transport Scotland has £47m to drag its traffic management systems into the 21st century

You only love me for my cache: New modules try to make NoSQL Redis more of a general-purpose database

Oracle cuts support for South African energy biz Eskom in long-running licensing dispute

Oracle pumps $1.2bn into Nashville campus as search for southern comfort goes on

Google proposes Logica data language for building more manageable SQL code

SAP's operating profits might be down but cloud-fixated ERP biz thinks things are looking up enough to hike full-year guidance

Redis Labs doubles value to $2bn in 9 months with $110m Series G funding round

No payrise for Oracle CEO Safra Catz, but at least there's $76.4m from trading company shares to fall back on

MoJ cancels £100m ERP procurement to get in line with UK government shared service strategy

SAP community suggestions for on-prem database canned as app giant looks cloudwards

Oracle gets the bunting out for UK Home Office's Fusion go-live amid enterprise software shakeup across Whitehall

Dutch enterprise software outfit Unit4 acquired for $2bn in private equity takeover

Low-risk AND rapid? Brit vaccine centre seeks ERP to meet accelerated schedule, and needs it yesterday

The first rule of ERP? Don't talk about ERP: App-maker IFS reckons market has moved on

You wouldn’t know my new database, she goes to another school: Oracle boasts of earthshattering tech the outside world cannot see

SAP boss Christian Klein's pay cheque is considerably lighter after 2020 woes wiped €28bn off company's value

Swedish startup Logical Clocks takes a crack at scaling MySQL backend for live recommendations

Analyse this: Microsoft promises OLAP-OLTP 'Link' with new CosmosDB features

IBM settles £36m Direct Line insurance platform project lawsuit, after claiming Teradata tried to usurp its spot

Would you Looker that: Google bakes in BigQuery caching layer to boost BI interactivity

DataStax 'pauses' AIOps database project to figure out exactly what AIOps is

Time to haul DBaaS: Neo4j joins the fully managed club as doubts linger about its cloudiness

Dynamic Data do-over denied: Judge upholds $7m patent infringement claim against Microsoft

Teasing HANA database upgrade, SAP leaves crowd wondering if software giant has lost its innovation mojo

Theranos destroyed crucial subpoenaed SQL blood test database, can't unlock backups, prosecutors say

Ethical power supplier People's Energy hacked, 250,000 customers' personal info accessed

75% of databases to be cloud-hosted by 2022, says Gartner while dishing on the weak points of each provider

MongoDB loses its mind with marketing budget movie mania: Yep, it's choose-your-own-adventure Hackers with drop-down menus

Redis becomes the most popular database on AWS as complex cloud application deployments surge

Databricks: Ugh, just look at that messy data lake environment. Squints. You know... we could sort that out with a sweet shot of SQL

Banking software firm tiptoes off to the cloud with MariaDB after $2m Oracle licence shocker

MongoDB rolls out pick 'n' mix multi-cloud DBaaS, hopes to win over footdraggers by playing well with AWS, Google, Microsoft

Adventures in SQL Server 2019: Microsoft updates the update that broke the update

Couchbase set to bring app multi-tenancy to its NoSQL document-store database

Should we all consolidate databases for the storage benefits? Reg vultures deploy DevOps, zoos, haircuts

Storage consolidation: Simplifying infrastructure will pay dividends for your apps

Storage consolidation: Why different flavors of database need different types of storage

Aerospike drags mainframes kicking and screaming into the modern world by feeding their data through Apache Spark

If you're modernizing your complex database stack and keep glancing at better storage, you're not alone

Consolidating databases has significant storage benefits – and therefore everyone should be doing it

Database consolidation is a server gain. Storage vendors should butt out

Open-source database outfit Redis Labs grabs $100m funding as it seeks to be about more than just cold, hard cache

SQLite maximum database size increased to 281TB – but will anyone need one that big?

Deep-root database: Kew Garden's 8 million specimen collection to find new life through data management

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