Database Architectures

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: This white paper from Semphonic president, Gary Angel, explains the challenges of warehousing Web analytics data and its limitations for marketing purposes, especially if real-time personalization is the aim. He then looks at Celebrus Technologies—a system which assists with building a digital measurement infrastructure.

Posted: 30 Jan 2012 | Published: 30 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

WEBCAST: In this webcast, representatives from the Commonwealth Bank of Australia discuss how it has consolidated multiple database services, including OLTP applications such as PeopleSoft Financials, onto an Oracle Exadata platform for improved performance and resilience and faster time-to-market.

Posted: 12 Dec 2011 | Premiered: 12 Dec 2011

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

EBOOK: In this BeyeNETWORK e-book, data warehousing expert Wayne Eckerson describes how to create a federated business intelligence (BI) architecture that aligns with organizational imperatives.

Posted: 09 Dec 2011 | Published: 09 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

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: Finding the right storage option for your content management system perticualary, SharePoint, can be a challeneging task. BLOBs are emerging as a soild option for a low-cost and high performing storage.

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 | Published: 28 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This IDC Event Flash presents the highlights of the Oracle OpenWorld event held in Beijing on December 13-15, 2010. It explores the comparison to Apple that Oracle's integrated software/hardware, performance focus and higher price point are eliciting. The paper also discusses Oracle's role in the current and future market.

Posted: 29 Sep 2011 | Published: 29 Sep 2011

CASE STUDY: Check out this short case study to see how this environmental engineering firm was able to design a centralized backup architecture - improving their data recovery success rate from 60% to 100% - with help from Dell and Symantec.

Posted: 16 May 2011 | Published: 16 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: At the core of the virtual data center is the automation of processes that align operations with current business policies. Being able to synthesize this operational information into knowledge of behavior is the crux of Fluid Data storage.

Posted: 29 Apr 2011 | Published: 29 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this case study and discover how NZ Bus, through local Oracle Certified Partner Database Integrated Solutions, became the first organization in New Zealand and one of the first in Asia-Pacific to deploy Oracle Database 11g Release 2.

Posted: 16 Mar 2011 | Published: 16 Mar 2011

DATA SHEET: Exadata is Oracle’s fastest growing new product. Much of the growth of Exadata has come at the expense of specialized data warehouse appliance vendors. These vendors have published competitive comparisons to Exadata. Continue reading the learn more.

Posted: 18 Feb 2011 | Published: 18 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: With database virtualization your database will be running on virtual servers, yet the applications querying it will see it as a normal database. Read on to learn the many benefits of taking this approach.

Posted: 09 Dec 2010 | Published: 09 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: In this paper you’ll learn how Snapshots use a copy-on-write operation that minimizes the drive space required for each snapshot. Unless there are changes in the original database, the snapshots will remain empty. Queries to the snapshot for un­changed records will automatically be redirected to the original database.

Posted: 07 Jul 2010 | Published: 07 Jul 2010

TECHNICAL ARTICLE: If you're a small or mid-sized business thinking about virtualization, particularly in the world of Microsoft, it makes sense to upgrade your database servers as well. This article explains why to upgrade and provides several examples of companies that have successfully made the move.

Posted: 20 Nov 2009 | Published: 20 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper reviews the common causes of application downtime and discusses Oracle's Maximum Availability Architecture framework that provides clear and concise guidance on implementing best practices using Oracle's proven high availability technologies.

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 | Published: 25 Sep 2009