Database Administration

CASE STUDY: This executive brief highlights the data management challenges a California-based organization faced and illustrates how their chosen solution, Oracle Database Appliance, resulted in cost savings and in better overall use of IT resources - and exceeded all expectations.

Posted: 09 Apr 2012 | Published: 29 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Download the "Lower IT Costs with Oracle Database 11g Release 2" whitepaper and discover new options and features that can help you reduce server and storage costs, improve query performance, and ensure availability during database application upgrades. Learn how you can transform your business, budgets, and service levels.

Posted: 28 Mar 2012 | Published: 28 Mar 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: 16 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Tempdb is a very critical component of your SQL Server and can be a major performance pain point if not managed properly. Read this white paper to thoroughly understand how tempdb works and find best practices designed to help you prevent, detect, and mitigate common database performance problems.

Posted: 23 Mar 2012 | Published: 22 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: 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: Download the "Lower IT Costs with Oracle Database 11g Release 2" white paper and discover new options and features that can help you reduce server and storage costs, improve query performance, and ensure availability during database application upgrades. Learn how you can transform your business, budgets, and service levels.

Posted: 10 Apr 2012 | Published: 28 Feb 2011

CASE STUDY: This executive brief highlights the data management challenges a California-based organization faced and illustrates how their chosen solution, Oracle Database Appliance, resulted in cost savings and in better overall use of IT resources - and exceeded all expectations.

Posted: 09 Apr 2012 | Published: 29 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Although most organizations are taking stronger measures to protect their data, significant gaps still exist at the very core — their databases. Commissioned by Oracle, this Forrester paper will help you formulate a database security strategy.

Posted: 09 Apr 2012 | Published: 31 Jan 2012

RESOURCE CENTER: This resource center offers up white papers, videos and more on the business intelligence (BI) capabilities of Oracle's products. The first paper provides an overview of the Oracle BI Foundation Suite, discussing its features and technical architecture, while another piece outlines cloud-ready BI with Oracle Business Intelligence 11g.

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 | Published: 26 Mar 2012

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

EGUIDE: Over the past 20 years mid-range relational databases were a hot commodity. But multiple databases, or database sprawl, leads to a much higher total cost of ownership (TCO) and can be challenging to manage. This guide outlines tips and strategies that Oracle databases have to help you reduce your number of databases and cut your TCO.

Posted: 14 Mar 2012 | Published: 14 Mar 2012

EGUIDE: Oracle Database Appliance is a new high-availability database strategy designed to fit the budget and performance needs of small and large businesses alike. Read this guide to learn why companies are specifically choosing to implement Oracle Database Appliance over other vendors offering similar systems.

Posted: 14 Mar 2012 | Published: 14 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: 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

EGUIDE: Read this e-guide to discover what challenges to expect when embarking on an E-Business Suite (EBS) R12 upgrade and strategies for overcoming them. Learn why an EBS upgrade is important, uncover new features of R12, and figure out how long your upgrade might take.

Posted: 07 Mar 2012 | Published: 06 Mar 2012

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

EGUIDE: This e-guide focuses on the impact of infrastructure on database performance.

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 | Published: 28 Feb 2012

EZINE: Before committing to a public or private cloud architecture, evaluate the benefits and especially the tradeoffs associated with each. Also in this issue, determine what needs are most important when planning your virtual applications, and find out how to monitor the performance of applications in the cloud.

Posted: 27 Feb 2012 | Published: 06 Apr 2011