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• 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.

• SAP to buy Sybase for $US5.8B in all-cash deal

  SAP has announced it will buy mobile and database vendor Sybase for roughly $5.8 billion.

• Victorian Police suspend crime database overhaul

  Victoria Police have suspended a replacement project for its criminal history and crime reporting database, LEAP.

• MySQL creator launches campaign to 'save' database

  The creator of MySQL has launched a Web-based campaign to "save" the open-source database from the "clutches" of Oracle, which is attempting to purchase its current owner, Sun Microsystems.

• IDC predicts strong information and data management growth across Asia-Pacific

  IDC is projecting Asia-Pacific growth in Information and Data Management Software (IDMS) in 2010 with the market resilience in 2009 despite the economic downturn. The analyst’s semi-annual information management and analytics software tracker shows the region (excluding Japan) returned to positive half-on-half growth in the first half of 2009, reaching a market value of $US1,056.8 million.

• Guarding against database anti-forensics

  Database hacking has gone mainstream and is becoming harder to detect because of the increasingly sophisticated anti-forensic procedures hackers use to cover their tracks.