Small Stories & Tall Tales from the Road to Big Data
A personal look at the people, projects & trends behind the NOSQL movement. Drawn from my experience travelling the world to record The NOSQL Tapes.
Firebird: 3 Decades of Innovation
Ann Harrison’s presentation about 30 years of Firebird history (started with InterBase): a lot of facts and interesting things about Firebird and InterBase.
Moving Data in Real-Time Between Oracle and MySQL
This video explains how to use the Tungsten replicator to move data in real-time between Oracle and MySQL. Continuent Tungsten is a commercial product that provides a production-grade solution to keep databases up, prevent data loss, provide database scaling, and improve resource utilization.
Time-Based Blind SQL Injection Using Heavy Queries
This presentation describes how attackers could take advantage of SQL Injection vulnerabilities using time-based blind SQL injection. The goal is to stress the importance of establishing secure development best practices for Web applications and not only to entrust the site security to the perimeter defenses. This article shows exploitation examples …
Practices for Agile Database Development
Most application developers think the database is an impediment to agile development. This presentation shows how to apply agile practices to databases. How the data team can contribute and stay productive in today’s software development environment and to influence the software being developed long before its deployed on the database …
Five Things You Didn’t Know About PostgresSQL
If you’re a .NET developer, chances are you’ve worked solely with SQL Server, SQL CE, or SQLite in your day-to-day development. Some .NET developers venture over to the OSS side of things and might dabble in MySQL – but not many have embraced the amazing capabilities of PostgresSQL. This video …