Database Administration

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: Read this white paper to learn why the Oracle Database Appliance is ideal for customers who value simplicity and who seek to avoid the complexity, costs, and risks in deploying a highly available database solution.

Posted: 01 Feb 2012 | Published: 01 Feb 2012

VIDEOCAST: What this videocast for information about one of Oracle's newest products - Oracle Database Appliance. It's designed to promote ease of use for small to mid-sized businesses as well as large organizations with a focus on simplicity, reliability, and affordability.

Posted: 25 Jan 2012 | Premiered: 25 Jan 2012

VIDEO: This brief video provides an overview of the Oracle Database Appliance - a fully integrated, high availability database solution capable of supporting a wide range of in-house and packaged online transaction processing (OLTP) and data warehousing applications.

Posted: 25 Jan 2012 | Premiered: 25 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: To run secure, compressed, blazing-fast backups, you need the right tool – and that’s LiteSpeed for SQL Server. In this new technical brief, discover six LiteSpeed features every DBA should know, and how LiteSpeed for SQL Server can make every DBA’s job easier. Read it today.

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 | Published: 16 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: In this case study, read about Microsoft’s Enterprise Application Services Group, and how they turned to LiteSpeed for backups that run four times faster while increasing performance. Then, see how LiteSpeed reduced the size of their SAP database backups, allowing them to leverage their current storage hardware. Read this case study today.

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 | Published: 16 Jan 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: Read this technology overview of a DBMS built for SMBs that provides a rapidly-deployable, highly-available platform at an affordable cost.

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 | Published: 11 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Learn more about why the Oracle Database Appliance is an ideal database system for customers who value simplicity and who seek to lower the costs and the risks of deploying a highly available database solution.

Posted: 11 Jan 2012 | Published: 11 Jan 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: 11 Jan 2012 | Published: 11 Jan 2012

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: This solution brief recommends an integrated server, storage, and database architecture that can help you deploy and scale big data infrastructure so you can realize valuable business insights as quickly as possible.

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 | Published: 06 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: IT change and release volume is rising rapidly, driven by agile development, virtualization, cloud, and globalization. Access this resource to learn how automated change and release management tools can transform change management from a reactive, manual, resource- and time-intensive process to a proactive, streamlined, highly-automated process.

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 | Published: 05 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Learn how forward-thinking IT leaders are taking steps to automate database and middleware administration, yielding significant efficiency gains, cost savings, and improvements in security and time to market.

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 | Published: 04 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, learn how you can enable Oracle real application clusters (RACs) to run efficiently and as fast as, if not faster, than a single instance.

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 | Published: 03 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper for a performance review of Oracle databases on physical versus virtual servers.

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 | Published: 03 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: 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: This survey explores the biggest issues and solutions around managing today's growing database environments.

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 | Published: 05 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

WEBCAST: Watch this webcast and join James Kobielus of Forrester Research, Sybase and Fuzzy Logix to learn how to put the power of complex, advanced analytics into the hands of non-technical knowledge workers and clients. You will learn why companies are turning to in-database analytics to gain faster insight into data.

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 | Premiered: 01 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to gain insight on the best practices for data integration projects and the importance of aligning data architectures with your business goals.

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 | Published: 30 Nov 2011

EGUIDE: Some consider SQL Server 2008 R2 a "business intelligence release" because the largest, most publicized changes cater to the BI functionality of the product. There are, however, many other new features and functionalities within SQL Server 2008 R2. In this expert e-guide, readers will learn more about these new features.

Posted: 22 Nov 2011 | Published: 22 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper details five steps an IT organizations can take to optimize their databases for improved response time to users.

Posted: 02 Nov 2011 | Published: 02 Nov 2011

EZINE: In this edition of our quarterly SharePoint e-zine, get expert advice on avoiding surprise expenditures, examples of how customers use ISV products to fill in gaps in SharePoint functionality, and tips to ensure proper staffing so the enterprise gets a ROI.

Posted: 01 Nov 2011 | Published: 01 Nov 2011