Developing database-backed software, often one finds it convenient to store stuff in the database which one might traditionally express in code, but which is useful to store in the database (so that ...

"Where do I find database security benchmarks?" That was the question posed to me this week when discussing database security assessment. It's an odd question for database administrators (DBAs) ...

BMC Software Inc. this week announced its BMC Atrium Configuration Management Database (CMDB), saying that it’s the first enterprise management software vendor to release such a product for ensuring ...

When I want to wear a certain clothing item, I take out it of the closet. When I go shopping, I add those clothes it to my closet and there are now new items for me to pick out in the future. A ...

Guys I'm having a problem migrating a Sharepoint 2007 config database I'm using psconfig .exe in order to move the database. Whenever I run the Sharepoint ...

Database management system (DBMS) configuration tuning is an essential aspect of any data-intensive application effort. But it is historically difficult because DBMSs have hundreds of configuration ...

Configuration files are an important component of your workflow. They provide both security when sharing code and standardization when working across multiple environments (e.g. Stata and R).

As enterprises continue to struggle with large-scale data breaches and quiet exfiltration of sensitive information from databases, database security experts warn of the big role misconfigured ...