Database Administration Reports

EGUIDE: This e-guide presents the best practices for tuning database auditing tools. Continue reading this e-guide to learn more about these best practices which will allow you to audit without forfeiting  database performance.

Posted: 22 Mar 2011 | Published: 22 Mar 2011

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Join SharePoint MVPs Dan Holme and Randy Williams for a balanced, intelligent, detailed examination of the technologies and issues surrounding BLOB externalization.

Posted: 18 Aug 2011 | Published: 09 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes challenges organizations face when using MapReduce, and the means by which Platform MapReduce can address them.

Posted: 16 Aug 2011 | Published: 16 Aug 2011

EGUIDE: Read this E-guide to learn how to move mission-critical Oracle application to virtualized environments with little disruption or pain.

Posted: 05 Aug 2011 | Published: 05 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides an overview of Oracle's capabilities for data warehousing, and discusses the key features and technologies by which Oracle-based business intelligence and data warehouse systems easily integrate information, perform fast queries, scale to very large data volumes and analyze any data.

Posted: 05 Aug 2011 | Published: 05 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: Access this paper and learn how you can reduce overhead and reduce response times for web applications, particularly for social networking, big data, and other scale-out applications.

Posted: 05 Aug 2011 | Published: 03 Aug 2011

EBOOK: In this e-book, expert Don Jones discusses data optimization strategies to lower costs and improve SharePoint functionality, allowing SharePoint to become the central data and content repository it is designed to be.

Posted: 02 Aug 2011 | Published: 02 Aug 2011

INFORMATION CENTER: This blog post discusses the current state of today's mixed infrastructures. Find out how two database offerings compare with respect to ease of use and learn how you can lower administration costs.

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 | Published: 04 Apr 2011

INFORMATION CENTER: Many companies recognize the benefits of data compression, but struggle to navigate the competitive market for this technology. This blog post explains why this capability is considered a critical database feature and compares several vendor offerings available. Find out how Oracle stacks up against IBM and explore the advantages of DB2.

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 | Published: 24 May 2011

RESOURCE: What IBM learned about the trade-offs between data marts, data warehouses and consolidation.

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 | Published: 07 Jun 2011

RESOURCE: Learn about why it matters that IBM DB2 is easier to administer than Oracle. Triton case study.

Posted: 07 Jun 2011 | Published: 07 Jun 2011

EGUIDE: Creating audit trails for security and compliance auditing is a daunting and time consuming task for database administrators. This expert e-guide provides database security best practices for tuning auditing tools and sheds some light on how to find an auditing process that best suits your organization.

Posted: 20 May 2011 | Published: 20 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: Learn how your existing professional database knowledge makes it easy for you to learn IBM DB2 9.7 for Linux, UNIX and Windows.

Posted: 17 May 2011 | Published: 17 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: In this paper, we discuss how Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g's advanced management capabilities help IT organizations cut through the complexity and bring order to chaos through its unique business-driven IT management approach. 

Posted: 12 Apr 2011 | Published: 01 Oct 2010

CASE STUDY: This paper profiles four of the more than 200 Oracle customers who have migrated to a Teradata solution. The companies profiled in this paper have achieved performance improvements, additional business benefits that justify the migration cost, and successful integration of the Teradata Database with the Oracle OLTP environment.

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 | Published: 11 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: The choice on how best to consume software - whether on-premises or through a Software as a Service (SaaS) model - is based on your specific requirements at different points in your business and organizational lifecycles. Check out this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 05 Apr 2011 | Published: 05 Apr 2011

PODCAST: Oracle Database Lite Client, Branch Office and Web-to-Go have been removed from Oracle's technology price list and are no longer being actively developed.  Now you are faced with a migration project.

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 | Premiered: Mar 31, 2011

VIDEO: This will demonstrate how the DB2 9.7 SQL Compatibility feature makes it easy to migrate from Oracle to DB2. 

Posted: 31 Mar 2011 | Premiered: 31 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Designed for organizations that run online transaction processing (OLTP) applications on distributed systems, IBM® DB2® pureScale™ offers clustering technology that helps deliver high availability and exceptional scalability transparent to applications.

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 | Published: 30 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses storage technology trends and why IBM storage systems are the smart choice for Oracle customers. Read to learn more. 

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 | Published: 24 Mar 2011

VIDEO: Watch this video white paper to learn how a more interactive database stack solution can provide disaster recovery and performance protection, while significantly improving the ROI for your offsite standby systems.

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 | Premiered: 23 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes the key capabilities in Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g and how it enables IT organizations to deliver greater business value through higher business efficiency and agility.

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 | Published: 01 Apr 2010

EBOOK: This guide serves to show you how DBAs can solve some of the complex challenges associated with your changing databases, while optimizing database operations and ensuring business continuity.

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 | Published: 18 Mar 2011

VIDEO: An overview of DB2 pureScale and its benefits.

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 | Premiered: 18 Mar 2011

VIDEO: DB2 automates many routine database administration tasks like database configuration, storage allocation, and memory management. Self-optimizing features automatically react to changes in workloads to adjust memory and optimize system performance. Watch this flash demo to learn why some are referring to DB2 as smarter database software.

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 | Premiered: 18 Mar 2011