• Interpol urges airlines to be vigilant of terrorists using fake or stolen passports

  Interpol is urging the world's airlines on Tuesday to establish a passport database to help prevent attacks by terrorists using fake or stolen travel documents.

• Five things you need to know about MySQL

  1. Rumors of its demise have been greatly exaggerated. Open-source advocates feared that Oracle, which gained ownership of the open-source MySQL database through its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, would choke off its development in order to protect the proprietary Oracle 11g database. That hasn't happened so far, as evidenced by two significant MySQL updates this year alone that provided features like additional scalability and better performance on Windows.

• Vic Police database project faces $100 million blowout

  Victoria Police has suspended attempts to replace its criminal history and crime reporting database LEAP, ahead of a redevelopment of the business case for the project.

• Oracle, SAP working on Exadata support

  Frequent rivals Oracle and SAP are behaving more like "frenemies" when it comes to Oracle's Exadata database machine, high-profile mudslinging notwithstanding.

• TechnologyOne posts profit growth

  ASX-listed software provider, TechnologyOne (ASX:TNE), has posted an after tax profit rise of 47 per cent to hit $5.7 million for the six months to 31 March.

Whitepapers about database

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