Database Administration

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: 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: 20 Dec 2010

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: 06 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: Business intelligence (BI) is a top priority, but selecting the tool best suited for your organization can be a challenge. Read this paper to learn about a complete, open, and integrated BI system that provides superior performance, faster time to value, and lower costs.

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 | Published: 10 Dec 2012

WHITE PAPER: This paper reviews Oracle GoldenGate’s capabilities and how it can be used to achieve zero downtime migration and consolidation to Oracle Exadata.

Posted: 06 Mar 2012 | Published: 14 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this detailed paper to explore some of the new features of the upcoming SQL Server 2012 release, including  high availability and disaster recovery, that will provide your organization with mission critical confidence, breakthrough insight, and moving to the cloud on your terms.

Posted: 24 Feb 2012 | Published: 24 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Optimizing SQL Server performance can be a daunting task, especially for an increasing number of reluctant DBAs faced with managing their organization’s SQL Server databases, despite little training. This white paper provides a high-level overview of core SQL Server performance concepts and an overview of essential SQL Server performance tools.

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 | Published: 02 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Download this complimentary copy of the 2011 IOUG Data Security Survey Report to see how your organization's data protection practices measures up.

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 | Published: 05 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how Oracle Solaris and SPARC are optimized to work with each other to improve security, drive ROI, and minimize TCO in your database environment. Also find technical descriptions of features and capabilities of Solaris that are implemented system-wide to optimize the functionality of the SPARC processor.

Posted: 14 Mar 2012 | Published: 01 Jun 2010

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: 25 Jul 2009

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: 20 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: This reference contains a sampling of real business results that organizations in a variety of industries have achieved by implementing Oracle Exadata. Learn how you can use Oracle Exadata to reduce IT costs through consolidation, manage more data on multiple compression tiers, improve the performance of all applications and much more.

Posted: 06 Mar 2012 | Published: 18 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: Download this white paper to learn about the market-leading e-Commerce solution and how improved performance can lead to increased conversion rates and higher revenue.

Posted: 06 Mar 2012 | Published: 06 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper offers a four-step approach to overcoming the key challenges of an Oracle E-Business Suite R12 upgrade. According to 152 surveyed IT managers, the top issues they'd like to see addressed are: cost and effort estimation, cost justification and impact analysis.

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 | Published: 02 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: This report compares the costs and compression, automation, workload management, and optimization capabilities of DB2 Advanced Enterprise Server Edition (AESE) versus Oracle Database 11g. It also emphasizes the importance of performance management tooling as a means of lowering total cost of ownership (TCO).

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 | Published: 31 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper challenges the x86 processor trend, demonstrating that modern mainframe technology represents a scale-up option to the current racks filled with blades. It looks at the way organizations can benefit in terms of improved agility, increased reliability and cost savings by consolidating Oracle databases onto IBM’s zEnterprise.

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 | Published: 14 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: In this paper, learn why the database layer is so important to the software selection of an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. Also compare Oracle database to SQL Server databases.

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 | Published: 11 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper helps you manage more data in a cost-effective way. With data volumes tripling every two years, Oracle advanced compression delivers compression rates of 2 to 4 times across all types of data and applications.  Read this to learn more about how it can help you reduce the disk space and costs of managing large data volumes.

Posted: 12 Dec 2011 | Published: 12 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses the procedures for upgrading your Oracle database,— particularly focusing on using Oracle’s real-time data integration software, Oracle GoldenGate— along with the results of such upgrades.

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 | Published: 08 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes configuration considerations, best practices and performance results of TimesTen running on Exalogic.

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 | Published: 05 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper challenges several assumptions about scale-out architectures and explains how consolidation and virtualisation can help you regain control over your infrastructure.

Posted: 09 Nov 2011 | Published: 09 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: Database as a Service (DaaS) is emerging as soild option for enterprise database management. However, many IT professionals are questioning the perforamce and secutiry of DaaS. Read this white paper to learn more about DaaS and how it can measure up to on-premise databases.

Posted: 26 Oct 2011 | Published: 26 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper 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.

Posted: 14 Oct 2011 | Published: 12 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper focuses on key Oracle Database 11g capabilities that help IT departments better optimize their storage infrastructure.

Posted: 14 Oct 2011 | Published: 12 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses the importance of data quality operations and how to successfully implement a data quality strategy into your organization.

Posted: 13 Sep 2011 | Published: 13 Sep 2011