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unusual facts about Database-as-IPC



2003 FESPIC Youth Games

15 participating Asia & Pacific nation participants named and arranged after their List of International Paralympic Committee (IPC) country codes.

A2LL

The application server was developed using Microsoft's (D)COM technology and uses an Informix 9.4x database running on a Solaris machine containing 80 CPUs and a 300 GB Cache-RAM.

Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr

However, relations sooned soured; the IPC cut its own production at the Kirkuk Field by half.

Denice Denton

When it was discovered that protest was listed as a "credible threat" on the TALON database managed by the Pentagon's Counterintelligence Field Agency, Denton helped persuade California Senators Boxer and Feinstein to request an investigation.

Devgems Data Modeler

It is used by data modelers, database administrators and software developers to create and manage database models and integrate with existing software development tools like Embarcadero Delphi.

Distributed workforce

Using a shared software approach called SaaS, or software as a service, workers and teams can share files securely as well as access the company’s databases, file sharing, telecommunications/unified communications, Customer relationship management (CRM), video teleconferencing, human resources, IT service management, accounting, IT security, web analytics, web content management, e-mail, calendars and much more.

Facility ID

The facility ID number or FIN is a unique positive integer assigned by the United States Federal Communications Commission to each domestic and international (shortwave) broadcast station in its Common Database System (CDBS).

Fair Credit Reporting Act

While database companies like LexisNexis, Westlaw, ChoicePoint, and eFunds (owner of ChexSystems) do not create credit reports per se, they may gather the same types of information and as a result may subject some of their actions to FCRA, e.g. when they provide such information to insurance companies, banks and other entities which may deny services, or favorable rates for services, based on that information.

FIT Issue Management

It features a proprietary flat file database, but can also connect to any JDBC compliant database such as Oracle, MySQL and MS-SQL with the optional database module.

FlyBase

FlyBase is an online bioinformatics database and the primary repository of genetic and molecular data for the insect family Drosophilidae.

FunTrivia

FunTrivia began at the University of Waterloo as the "Archive for Useless Facts and Trivia" in 1995, a simple website that allowed visitors to submit fun facts and information into a database.

George Motola

Motola was a prolific songwriter, with 120 entries in the BMI database.

Greenplum

Greenplum Database was supported for production use on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.2 (64-bit), Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x (64-bit), CentOS Linux 5.x (64-bit) and Sun Solaris 10U5+ (64-bit).

Gypsy horse

All of the North American Gypsy Horse and Drum Horse registries employ the Animal Genetics Research Laboratory of the University of Kentucky to perform DNA analysis and maintain a database of registered horses' DNA markers.

IBM DB2 Commonstore

Part of the IBM Information Management portfolio which builds upon the DB2 database platform.

IPC Swimming World Championships

They are organised by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) on a four year rotation with the Paralympic Games (every four years) and regional championships (every two years).

Isayeret

Isayeret.com ("The Israeli Special Forces Database") is a website dedicated to the Special Forces of the Israel Defense Forces elite units (Sayeret) and the Counter Terrorism units of the Israel Police, Israel Border Police and Israel Prison Service.

Joconde

"La Joconde" is the French name of the Mona Lisa, which like about half of the collections of the Louvre, is included in the database, as one of 295 items by (42 including 6 paintings), after, or connected with Leonardo da Vinci.

Jonathan Peizer

Peizer founded and chairs Aspiration, a non-profit whose Social Source Commons library of GNU software provides resources for non-governmental organizations, and Capaciteria, a user-managed database of management resources

Lil' Miss murder

Entering the DNA profile into law enforcement's CODIS database got a hit showing that it belonged to Dale Wayne Eaton, 57, of Moneta, Wyoming, who, at the time, was incarcerated in Englewood federal prison at Littleton, Colorado, on an unrelated weapons charge.

Magic quotes

Modern database engines and libraries use parameterised queries to pass data to the database separately from SQL commands, greatly reducing the need to escape data before constructing the queries.

Margaret Oakley Dayhoff

It and the parallel effort by Walter Goad which led to the GenBank database of nucleic acid sequences are the twin origins of the modern databases of molecular sequences.

MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base

Directed by Dr. Brent Smith (University of Arkansas) and Dr. Kelly Damphousse, the ATS is a database of individuals and groups indicted by the United States government as the result of an official FBI terrorism investigation.

National Vulnerability Database

On Friday March 8, 2013, the database was taken offline after it was discovered that the system used to run multiple government sites had been compromised by a software vulnerability of Adobe ColdFusion.

Nonproliferation Policy Education Center

Richard K. Lester – Director, Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Industrial Performance Center (IPC) and professor of nuclear science and engineering

Nytheatre.com

This has been supplemented by the electronic publishing effort Indie Theater Now, which offers a large database of plays that can be downloaded from the site, including works by Kirk Bromley, Edward Einhorn, Ian W. Hill, Jeffrey Sweet, Crystal Skillman and Mac Rogers.

OCILIB

OCILIB is used in applications and database layers written in various languages such as C, C++, Objective-C, D, Go, Erlang, Lisp, PureBasic, Blitz BASIC, Racket and others.

Oracle LogMiner

Oracle LogMiner, a utility provided by Oracle Corporation to purchasers of its Oracle database, provides methods of querying logged changes made to an Oracle database, principally though SQL commands referencing data in Oracle redo logs.

Police Information Technology Organisation

The UK government Police National Computer (PNC) project was evolved in the early 1970s, and was launched in 1974 with Stolen Vehicles as its initial database.

PubChemSR

PubChemSR is a MS-Windows-based data search and retrieval tool for the NCBI's public chemical database PubChem.

Query by humming

Tunebot also serves as the back-end for a game called Karaoke Callout, in which players' performances are compared by the engine with songs in the database.

Rape pornography

Policing is made difficult by rape pornography websites operating anonymously, flouting ICANN regulations and providing false information for the Whois database.

Rhizome Navigation

In their investigation into the Enron scandal, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission made a large portion of Enron's email database available to the public.

ServersCheck

It can perform traditional network related checks (TCP, PING, traceroute) but can also be used to monitor a wide variety of other checks such as internet related checks (url, email chain, database checks, Windows checks (diskspace, CPU, memory, process, services).

Silver City Galleria

Security is managed by IPC International, and facilities services are managed by UGL Limited's Unicco.

Sirius Corporation Ltd

Sirius provide a full Enterprise Stack which can include, but is not limited to, products such as Asterisk (VoIP), JBoss (application server), Apache (web server), Squid (proxy), OGo/Scalix (groupware), Sendmail/Cyrus (email), Samba/CUPS (file & print), OpenLDAP (directory server), PostgreSQL (database), PostGIS (geographic information systems) and Linux (operating system).

SpringSource

Acquisitions continued including RabbitMQ (an open-source AMQP message broker), Redis (an open source, noSQL key-value store) and Gemstone (developer of several data-management products).

SQLObject

SQLObject supports a number of common database backends: included in the distribution are MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Sybase SQL Server, MaxDB, Microsoft SQL Server and Firebird.

Strawberry latent ringspot virus

Its entry in the ICTV database indicates this virus is a Sadwavirus but current literature indicates that it may be a Cheravirus.

System Global Area

shared pool, the cache of parsed commonly used SQL statements, and also the data-dictionary cache containing tables, views and triggers

Taxatio Ecclesiastica

The Taxatio Ecclesiastica, often referred to as the Taxatio Nicholai or just the Taxatio, compiled in 1291–92 under the order of Pope Nicholas IV, is a detailed database valuation for ecclesiastical taxation of English and Welsh parish churches and prebends.

The Political Graveyard

The Political Graveyard is a website and database that catalogues information on more than 224,000 American political figures and political families, along with other information.

UK Statute Law Database

The idea for creating a UK-wide legislation database dates back to 1991 when the government awarded a contract to Syntegra, a BT company previously known as "Secure Information Systems Limited", to create a database containing all the public Acts comprised in the publication "Statutes in Force" together with all amendments made since a "base date" of 1 February 1991.

User Programmatic Interface

UPI offers a procedural API for not only performing certain database administration tasks (such as system startup and shutdown), but also for using PL/SQL or SQL to query, access, and manipulate data.

Versant Corporation

In late 2012, after rejecting an offer by Unicom Systems Inc., Versant Corporation announced it was being acquired by Actian Corporation, the commercial developer of Ingres and the relational database, Vectorwise.

Wapedia

Wapedia offers the most recent version of every article, which is done by using a combination of a proxy-like behavior and a local article database.

Warren Gish

to allow users to retrieve individual sequences in part or in whole, natively, translated or reverse-complemented, and able to dump the entire contents of a BLAST database back into human-readable FASTA format.

Web template system

With the model typically held in a relational database, the remaining components of the MVC architecture are the control and view.

WorkPLAN

The two new products, MyWorkPLAN and WorkPLAN Enterprise, have been programmed using PowerBuilder, Delphi and C++, and they use MySQL as a database engine.

Xplore

IEEE Xplore, an online database of IEEE research publications.


see also

Anti-pattern

Database-as-IPC: Using a database as the message queue for routine interprocess communication where a much more lightweight mechanism would be suitable