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ALSO CALLED: DBA and Data Base Administrators
DEFINITION: An IT staff member who directs or performs all activities related to maintaining a successful database environment. Responsibilities include designing, implementing, and maintaining the database system; establishing policies and procedures pertaining to the management, security, maintenance, and use of the DBMS. Typically, a DBA has either a degree in Computer Science and some on-the-job training  … 
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Software Development Innovations Fueled by Intel® Xeon® 5500 series
sponsored by Intel
WHITE PAPER: This article provides real-life cases of how the software industry is delivering breakthrough solutions as they tap into the Intel Xeon processor 5500’s full capabilities. Learn how smart software combined with smart hardware saves time, money, and energy.
Posted: 28 Oct 2009 | Published: 28 Oct 2009


Database Encryption and Key Management for Microsoft SQL Server 2008
sponsored by Thales
WHITE PAPER: This technical guide for database administrators and IT security experts demonstrates how you can protect your sensitive data with the native database encryption functions of Microsoft SQL Server 2008, such as cell-level encryption and Transparent Data Encryption, and manage and protect encryption keys with hardware security modules (HSMs).
Posted: 21 Oct 2009 | Published: 21 Oct 2009


Oracle's Database Machine Delivers Extreme Performance
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
VIDEO: Oracle Exadata provides the reliability, scalability, and extreme performance that database customers have been demanding in today's difficult business environment. Watch this video and learn about the exponential increases in data delivery speeds and system response times that Oracle Exadata provides.
Posted: 19 Oct 2009 | Premiered: 19 Oct 2009


IDC White Paper By Carl W. Olofson. IBM's Secret Weapon: The Power, Flexibility, and Self-Managing Capability of Informix Dynamic Server
sponsored by IBM
ANALYST REPORT: Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) represents a technology that is too significant to compromise or to try to blend into a more general product line. That is why IBM decided to boost investment in IDS development and promote it as a premier relational database management system (RDBMS) for high-volume transaction applications.
Posted: 19 Oct 2009 | Published: 19 Oct 2009


E-book: Smart Data Management: 5 ways to improve DBA Efficiency
sponsored by IBM
EBOOK: Applications, services and processes continue to proliferate, and there is never enough staff on hand. Database Administrators have to find more ways to work smarter and not harder. This e-book highlights five tips to help DBAs build new levels of efficiency and productivity.
Posted: 19 Oct 2009 | Published: 19 Oct 2009


Speeding ETL Processing in Data Warehouses
sponsored by Syncsort
WHITE PAPER: For processing data for BI analytics and other applications, the usual go-to software products include various extract, transform, load (ETL) and data warehousing solutions. However, these products do not always provide the speed required to deliver data on time. An additional product can speed the processing of high volumes of data.
Posted: 12 Oct 2009 | Published: 12 Oct 2009


Presentation Transcript: MS SQL Server 2008
sponsored by Fusion-IO
PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Check out this transcript of a presentation given by Sumeet Bansal, Fusion-io Principal Solutions Architect, to learn how Fusion-io solutions enhance SQL server performance, improve customer experience, and optimize storage management systems.
Posted: 12 Oct 2009 | Published: 12 Oct 2009


eGuide: Mid-Market Guide to Architecting SQL Server for High Performance and 100% Uptime on a budget
sponsored by Dell, Inc.
EGUIDE: Read this expert E-Guide from Dell to learn key concepts that will help you architect your next SQL Server installation.
Posted: 09 Oct 2009 | Published: 09 Oct 2009


Breaking the Scalability Barrier with Infinite Cache
sponsored by EnterpriseDB Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Infinite Cache™ from EnterpriseDB revolutionizes distributed cache management on commodity blade server hardware by substantially increasing the amount of memory available to hold data including entire databases with outstanding performance.
Posted: 23 Sep 2009 | Published: 23 Sep 2009


SQL Server 2008 Dynamic Duo: Management Views and Functions
sponsored by Global Knowledge
WHITE PAPER: Dynamic management views and functions were extraordinary additions to SQL 2005, and they have only improved in function and increased in number in SQL 2008. This white paper will explore a few of their capabilities and give examples as to how they can ease the workload of a database administrator.
Posted: 22 Sep 2009 | Published: 22 Sep 2009


Steps Data Architects Should Take to Improve Developer and DBA Collaboration for an Easier Project, a Better Product and a Stronger Team
sponsored by Embarcadero Technologies, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This paper will take a look at some of the problems that project data and process architects face in working with other IT roles as well as seven easy and inexpensive steps they can take to ensure a collaborative team environment.
Posted: 10 Sep 2009 | Published: 10 Sep 2009


Everything you wanted to know about upgrading to IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Version 6, but were afraid to ask
sponsored by Mainline Information Systems
WHITE PAPER: The release of Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) version 6 from IBM has sparked numerous questions from existing TSM v5 customers. This white paper is designated for existing TSM v5 customers who would like to explore the options for upgrading to the latest and greatest release of TSM.
Posted: 17 Aug 2009 | Published: 17 Aug 2009


TSM 6.1 – Next Generation Management for Today’s Enterprise Data Centers
sponsored by Mainline Information Systems
WHITE PAPER: From its inception, Tivoli Storage Manager was designed to be a highly scalable and available data protection solution. However, Tivoli Storage Manager V6.1 takes data protection scalability to the next level with a new relational database, based on IBM DB2® technology, designed to store many more objects and manage more data.
Posted: 17 Aug 2009 | Published: 17 Aug 2009


Real Time Data Integration: Using Change Data Capture Technology with Microsoft SSIS
sponsored by Attunity
WHITE PAPER: Change data capture (CDC) technology has become a strategic component of many data warehouse and business intelligence (BI) architectures. Read this paper and learn how to use change date capture technology with Microsoft SQL server intergration services in real time.
Posted: 08 Jul 2009 | Published: 08 Jul 2009


Breaking the Business Intelligence Log Jam
sponsored by ParAccel
ANALYST REPORT: In an ongoing business intelligence project, the new required updates pile up at a steady or accelerating rate, while the effort to make each change grows as the system grows more complex. The inevitable result is a growing backlog of unmet business needs. That build-up is the BI Log Jam. Read this analyst report to learn how to break the cycle.
Posted: 26 Jun 2009 | Published: 26 Jun 2009


SUN REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE FOR ORACLE 11g GRID
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This document is intended for executives evaluating the use of a horizontally scalable grid for database application deployment, as well as project managers, system engineers, integration specialists, and other technical staff looking to design, implement, and tune database applications in a grid computing environment.
Posted: 05 Jun 2009 | Published: 05 Jun 2009


Why Virtualize? What are the Benefits?
sponsored by Dell and VMware
VIDEO: Join Tim Webb, Director, Dell Data Center & Virtualization Practice, as he describes how Dell Virtualization Solutions can help reduce costs while improving IT agility, quality of service, and reliability.
Posted: 01 Jun 2009 | Premiered: 01 Jun 2009


Inside SQL Server 2008: Exploring High Availability and Scalability Enhancements
sponsored by Global Knowledge
WHITE PAPER: Microsoft is targeting close to zero downtime with SQL 2008 with availability and recovery features that only used to be available via third-party solutions. This white paper discusses the evolution of High-availability from SQL 2005 to SQL 2008, and the tools available to minimize downtime in the Enterprise.
Posted: 26 May 2009 | Published: 26 May 2009


E-book: The Top 5 IT Budget Killers (and How You Can Fight Back)
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: This e-book by IBM, will introduce you to the five big IT budget killers and some of the best ways to knock them out.
Posted: 06 Oct 2008 | Published: 06 Oct 2008

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