Database Management

EBOOK: Based on research gathered through a survey of 240 BI professionals, BI expert Wayne Eckerson presents his findings in this insightful e-book to let you know where the current market of BI technology stands. Read on to learn about different types of BI users and the capabilities they require, BI architectures and so much more.

Posted: 23 Jul 2012 | Published: 23 Jul 2012

EBOOK: Check out the new Exadata e-book packed with the latest real-world examples, insights, and tips for IT professionals. This interactive e-book experience features customer success stories and video interviews, analyst commentary, a 3-D demo, and more.

Posted: 17 Jul 2012 | Published: 16 Jul 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to get an overview of the Oracle Database family of products and learn how you can transform your business, budgets, and service levels with Oracle Database 11g Release 2.

Posted: 24 May 2012 | Published: 13 Oct 2010

WEBCAST: Watch this webcast to learn how Oracle Exadata provides extreme performance for both data warehousing and online transaction processing applications (OLTP) by making workloads faster, easier to manage, and less expensive.

Posted: 24 Jul 2012 | Premiered: Jul 23, 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn about a new network satellite server that can help you simplify and improve Linux management while reducing costs.

Posted: 18 Jul 2012 | Published: 18 Jul 2012

WHITE PAPER: This IDC report helps you make a case for upgrading to Oracle Database 11g and vouches for its smooth and seamless implementation. Read more inside to learn about the improved new features and how your organization could significantly benefit from them.

Posted: 17 Jul 2012 | Published: 14 Nov 2011

VIDEO: Facing a significant growth in data, American Equipment, Inc. needed to improve its data protection and backup. In this case study learn how Symantec Technologies and Wasatch Software were able to meet these needs with Symantec Backup Exec.

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 | Premiered: 05 Jul 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how to save on IT resources while supporting new and existing business applications with Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC)'s high availability and scalability.

Posted: 05 Jul 2012 | Published: 30 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: Review this informative analysis of Oracle Database 11g Advanced Compression. Find out how Oracle technology enabled one Fortune 500 company to save on storage costs, improve overall performance, reduce the size of disk consumption by 50% for structured data and 98% for unstructured data, and much more.

Posted: 03 Jul 2012 | Published: 25 Jun 2012

WHITE PAPER: Review this cost comparison study of Oracle Database 11g R2 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 and uncover which technology came out on top. Find out which solution offered a 49% higher time savings, 46% more in complexity savings, and whose time savings amounted to saving $58,800 per year per database administrator.

Posted: 03 Jul 2012 | Published: 25 Jun 2012

WHITE PAPER: Review this case study and learn how Oracle Database 11g enabled British Telecommunications (BT) to alleviate its database infrastructure management challenges. Find out how leveraging Oracle helped BT reduce their server sprawl, deploy databases faster, and operate with 20% fewer DBAs.

Posted: 03 Jul 2012 | Published: 24 Jun 2012

WHITE PAPER: This paper details the results of a survey conducted by Unisphere Research among members of the Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) and reveals that nearly one out of 10 respondents cited that the total amount of online data they are managing tops a petabyte. Read on to discover data growth trends and patterns popping up in organizations today.

Posted: 03 Jul 2012 | Published: 24 Jun 2012

WHITE PAPER: This paper offers an overview of Oracle Data Mining, detailing how you can build predictive models to better target customers, develop detailed customer profiles and detect and prevent fraud. Read on and learn how this data mining tool eliminates data extraction and movement, delivers the lowest TCO compared to traditional vendors and more.

Posted: 03 Jul 2012 | Published: 24 Jun 2012

WHITE PAPER: Even the most effective servers will eventually have to be replaced once they reach the end of their lifecycles. This white paper explores key factors to consider when evaluating new servers for your business and offers exclusive advice for executing a seamless Linux migration.

Posted: 27 Jun 2012 | Published: 25 Jun 2012

WHITE PAPER: As data pools continue multiplying, more and more organizations are moving their growing volumes of data out of disk-based storage systems and remote relational databases and into machine memory. But there’s more to be said about in-memory data storage. Check out this resource to discover the top ten reasons to store more data in memory.

Posted: 21 Jun 2012 | Published: 13 Jun 2012

EGUIDE: Read this expert e-guide to learn why features supporting business intelligence and big data management— among other new capabilities— have industry experts declaring SQL Server 2012 Microsoft's strongest release to date. Also, find step-by-step guidance on how to test and update client applications for compatibility with SQL Server 2012.

Posted: 19 Jun 2012 | Published: 24 May 2012

EGUIDE: If SQL Server 2008 R2's self-service business intelligence (BI) features made the release appealing to business users, then the data quality, analysis, and master data management capabilities that give IT more control over self-service BI in SQL Server 2012 will make this latest release attractive to DBAs. Read this expert e-guide to learn more.

Posted: 19 Jun 2012 | Published: 24 May 2012

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: View this webpage to learn about the features of IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows, including autonomics, storage optimization, SQL compatibility, XML support, virtualization, developer support, and more.

Posted: 07 Jun 2012 | Published: 07 Jun 2012

WHITE PAPER: Access this resource to  learn about IBM vs. Oracle’s different methods of workload optimization. Review the differences between IBM’s three server approach and Oracle’s one-size-fits-all approach to deep analytics, operational analytics, and transaction processing, and decide which technology best suits your organization.

Posted: 07 Jun 2012 | Published: 01 Jun 2012

WHITE PAPER: Does a SQL Server database server virtualization initiative make sense for your growing business? Read this report to learn how virtualization impacted data center performance and total cost of ownership (TCO) in a test environment.

Posted: 05 Jun 2012 | Published: 31 Mar 2012

EGUIDE: When call tracking and recording software company, CallSource, wanted to boost its main production application’s performance, it looked to Oracle Database Appliance. Read this expert e-guide to discover the characteristics they looked at and why Oracle came out on top.

Posted: 01 Jun 2012 | Published: 01 Jun 2012

EBOOK: Access this handy e-book to learn how you can overcome common SQL Server-related backup and recovery challenges such as data sprawl, log truncation, single‐object recovery and off‐location restores.

Posted: 01 Jun 2012 | Published: 31 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn about a new relational database from Akiban, a unified document and relational architecture that accelerates MySQL applications to ensure consistent and compelling performance for end users with no change to code, architecture or infrastructure.

Posted: 30 May 2012 | Published: 30 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: This annual data breach cost study examines the wide range of business costs associated with a breach, including expense outlays for detection, escalation notification, and after-the-fact response.

Posted: 25 May 2012 | Published: 31 Mar 2012

WEBCAST: Oracle customers, TransUnion, CMC Markets, Diamond Resorts International and National Marrow Donor Program, discuss defense-in-depth database security with data encryption, privileged user access control, data masking, and consolidated auditing and reporting.

Posted: 24 May 2012 | Premiered: May 24, 2012