Microsoft Access
Scale Forms to Match Screen Resolution
Developer Markus Gruber has announced the release of modScaleForm, a new freeware database utility that
allows DBAs to easily modify Microsoft Access forms to match available screen resolutions. The program provides
control over font elements, as well as a form-scaling ability that can make forms created in Access—which may
be used as a front-end for SQL Server databases—align properly in different client screen resolutions. For more
information about modScaleForm or to download a copy, go to scourceforge.net/projects/modscaleform.
Business
Intelligence
Data Analytics for Large
Data Sets
Managing and providing analytics
for large amounts of data is the
focus of Vertica Analytics Database
2.0. According to Vertica, this new
release helps make enterprise data
warehouses more efficient by using
data compression and providing
more responsive data analysis. Vertica
also claims that their database
system features a shared-nothing,
column architecture that supports
concurrent loading and querying of data that improved performance even further. For more information, contact
Vertica at 978-533-3500 or visit www.vertica.com.
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Business Process Modeling Tools
Enterprise Architecture Modeling
EA/Studio Community Edition is a new freeware version of Embarcadero’s
EA/Studio business process management (BPM) tool. The
software allows database architects to more easily model enterprise
database architecture, particularly with regards to auditing and compliance
needs. It can also import Visio model diagrams, and created data
models can be shared with Embarcadero’s ER/Studio data modeling
application. This product is also the third software release from Embarcadero
that was developed using Eclipse, an open-source development
framework that emphasizes interoperability between other products
developed with the Eclipse framework. For more information, call
Embarcadero at 415-834-3131, or visit www.embarcadero.com to
download a copy.
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Database Security
Log and Event Management
LogRhythm has announced LogRhythm 4.0, the latest version of
their database log and event management utility. This new release gathers and analyzes logs generated by OBDC
databases such as SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, and IBM DB2. Logs can be analyzed remotely, and alerts can
be configured to notify administrators when there is unauthorized access or questionable activity in the database
auditing trail. LogRhythm 4.0 also introduces a new Log Miner tool that aggregates insider threat and anomaly
detection information into a single, graphical control panel. Pricing for LogRythm 4.0 begins at $20,000. For
more information, contact LogRythym at 303-413-8745 or visit www.logrhythm.com.