Database Administration

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to get an overview of the Oracle Database family of products and learn how you can transform your business, budgets, and service levels with Oracle Database 11g Release 2.

Posted: 24 May 2012 | Published: 24 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: SQL Server database consolidation provides decreased costs and lessens the amount of hardware you need to store data. But those aren’t the only benefits. Read this brief white paper to learn about a consolidation strategy that is easy to deploy and use and provides a highly-available and dynamic environment for  data storage.

Posted: 23 May 2012 | Published: 23 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: This document focuses on key Oracle Database 11g capabilities that help IT departments better optimize their storage infrastructure, enabling administrators to deliver a cost effective, scalable information management platform that is easy to manage, and that continues to deliver the performance and availability that today's businesses require.

Posted: 22 May 2012 | Published: 22 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: This technical white paper provides Exadata Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) insight for rapid deployment and efficient operation of Exadata Database Machine, focusing on the areas of: Exadata MAA Architecture, initial deployment, post-deployment Exadata MAA configuration, and Exadata MAA operational best practices.

Posted: 22 May 2012 | Published: 22 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: Oracle Corporation streamlines several business critical applications and enhances mission critical global single instance (GSI) database and enterprise resource planning (ERP) environment while lowering TCO and increasing performance.

Posted: 17 May 2012 | Published: 17 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper for an overview of Oracle Optimized Solution for WebCenter Content on SPARC SuperCluster. From the industry-leading WebCenter Portal software, to pervasive content management in Oracle WebCenter Content, Oracle WebCenter Suite provides the extensive functionality enterprises need to manage the flow of information.

Posted: 17 May 2012 | Published: 17 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: This paper provides recommendations and best practices for optimizing virtualization infrastructures when deploying the Oracle Optimized Solution for Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure. It covers deployment of software, hardware, storage, and network components.

Posted: 16 May 2012 | Published: 16 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: Top five reasons why customers deploy Microsoft SQL Server on EMC VNX Unified Storage.

Posted: 14 May 2012 | Published: 14 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: Having trouble managing database backups in today's infrastructure? Read this white paper today for a potential solution.

Posted: 09 May 2012 | Published: 09 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: Maintaining proper control over your mainframe infrastructure can be a time-consuming task for IT professionals. This research report discusses new management capabilities you can leverage immediately to streamline this essential process so you can allocate your time to other important projects.

Posted: 02 May 2012 | Published: 02 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores the unique requirements of OLTP workloads. Learn about a recommended hardware architecture and its key components that make it well suited for SQL environments.

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 | Published: 30 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn the pros and cons of NoSQL database technology as it compares to relational database management systems (RDBMSs) in certain use cases.

Posted: 24 Apr 2012 | Published: 24 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: This paper outlines how Oracle’s investments in the Oracle Optimized Solution for Oracle Database, enable IT organizations to achieve these difficult and opposing challenges.

Posted: 24 Apr 2012 | Published: 24 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: Given that Sybase ASE can now be deployed as the foundation for SAP Business Suite and BW implementations (in addition to Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server and IBM DB2), the information is relevant to SAP customers installing a new instance of SAP or looking to migrate their existing SAP installation to a different database.

Posted: 22 Apr 2012 | Published: 22 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: Choosing the right hardware for SQL Server databases and the OLTP applications they support can be a challenging task for IT pros. Explore a new server architecture designed with OLTP workloads in mind and learn about its key features that help to improve data center efficiency.

Posted: 17 Apr 2012 | Published: 17 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: This paper explains how modeling information architecture (IA) can help reduce the costs associated with data management. Read this now and learn about the benefits of implementing IA and how Sybase's option offers modeling support for database design and enterprise architecture.  

Posted: 16 Apr 2012 | Published: 16 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: . Read this research report to discover the results of comparison testing between two database management systems - Oracle Database Appliance and Microsoft SQL Server - in terms of the productivity and cost-efficiency differences.

Posted: 28 Mar 2012 | Published: 28 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: The problem with becoming too comfortable with built-in SQL Server monitoring tools is that they're often used after problems have already arisen. Read this paper to discover how event notifications and extended events can help you drill down into SQL Server and proactively monitor your databases.

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 | Published: 20 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this insightful white paper now and learn how a data warehouse accelerator can help you swiftly decipher patterns, predict future trends and improve the overall performance of your warehouse while also minimising manual tuning.

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 | Published: 20 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: IT professionals were recently surveyed on their data security practices. The results were disturbing with 60% saying that a data breach is likely, or they’re not sure what to expect, over the next 12 months. Download this complimentary copy of the 2011 IOUG Data Security Survey Report and see how your organization measures up.

Posted: 19 Mar 2012 | Published: 19 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to find eight tips for safeguarding your database from security breaches and unauthorized changes while maintaining compliance with key regulations.

Posted: 15 Mar 2012 | Published: 15 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: This customer reference booklet contains a sampling of real business results that organizations around the world, in a variety of industries, have achieved by upgrading and standardizing on Oracle Database 11g.  We hope you find these success stories helpful in learning how Oracle can help you achieve your business and IT objectives.

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 | Published: 12 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: Conducted by the research firm ORC International, this study found that performing common database management tasks for Oracle Database 11g R2 took less time and fewer resources than performing the same tasks for DB2 Enterprise 9.7. Although funded by Oracle, the study was independently conducted by ORC.

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 | Published: 12 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how Oracle In-Memory Database Cache significantly reduces response time, while improving overall application throughput, by bringing data closer to the application, and by processing queries in an in-memory database.

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 | Published: 12 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: Businesses today increasingly need to leverage a unified database platform to enable the deployment and consolidation of all applications onto one common infrastructure. Read on to learn the benefits of incorporating Oracle's Exadata based Database Machine into the IT infrastructure.

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 | Published: 12 Mar 2012