Database Performance Management

TECHNICAL ARTICLE: This article explores ways in which small and mid-sized businesses can improve the performance of their databases — and their businesses — by upgrading to SQL Server 2008.

Posted: 20 Nov 2009 | Published: 20 Nov 2009

DATA SHEET: This data sheet gives a brief overview of the Postgres Plus training classes for developers by EnterpriseDB. Read this data sheet to learn how these training classes can improve your Postgres knowledge and enhance your professional growth.

Posted: 13 Nov 2009 | Published: 13 Nov 2009

EGUIDE: This guide will walk you through evaluating EnterpriseDB's products, Postgres Plus Standard Server and Postgres Plus Advanced Server, to help you decide which product is right for you. This evaluation guide will also help with installation and testing and provide additional information on how to use the product.

Posted: 13 Nov 2009 | Published: 13 Nov 2009

EBOOK: Learn all about in-database technology in this E-book, designed to give you a complete overview of the technology and how it can be leveraged successfully. Read on to learn why more companies are choosing to leverage this new technology - and learn more about their ROI and business results.

Posted: 11 Nov 2009 | Published: 11 Nov 2009

WEBCAST: Databases are an important part of a company’s infrastructure, but they also tend to be rich with attack vectors to exploit. This webcast explores the many potential PostgreSQL external vulnerabilities and then shows how those vulnerabilities can be secured. Watch this webcast to learn how to protect one of your company’s most valued assets.

Posted: 09 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 09 Nov 2009

VIDEO: Watch this 10 minute video and discover what Oracle compatibility means for your business from a technical, and skills point of view. This video also offers multiple low risk strategies for using Postgres Plus Advanced Server to lower your Oracle costs and utilize the advantages of the most advanced open source database available.

Posted: 09 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 09 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: This guidebook provides the answers with a series of detailed sections including essential activities such as planning, forecasting, risk management, team selection, communication and collaboration.

Posted: 04 Nov 2009 | Published: 04 Nov 2009

EGUIDE: While SQL Server 2008 is now considered stable and beneficial, many businesses are still hesitant to migrate. In this expert E-Guide, brought to you by SearchSQLServer.com and SHI, you will discover the unique advantages offered by a SQL Server 2008 migration.

Posted: 03 Nov 2009 | Published: 03 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: Today’s data centers and cloud computing environments require increased I/O performance to support large-scale applications such as databases, web servers, e-commerce applications, file servers, and email. This whitepaper focuses on the performance benefits of using the Adaptec MaxIQ™ SSD Cache Performance Solution.

Posted: 02 Nov 2009 | Published: 02 Nov 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper will help you understand the prospects that Postgres Plus RDBMS from EnterpriseDB and the JBoss Application Server from Red Hat can provide when used in combination.

Posted: 30 Oct 2009 | Published: 30 Oct 2009

DATA SHEET: With its new in-database analytics capability, Sybase IQ provides an analytical platform that can decrease processing time, increase accuracy, and manage data volume. Read on to learn how Sybase® IQ delivers advanced analytics power with in-database analytics.

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 | Published: 29 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper details non-disruptive strategies for eliminating performance problems in existing data integration environments.

Posted: 29 Oct 2009 | Published: 29 Oct 2009

EDITORIAL RESOURCE GUIDE: Many of today's businesses rely on Unix for their highest workloads, limiting their ability to execute effective transaction processing. In this expert E-Guide you will discover how Linux can be used to perform high transaction rates at a low cost. Read on to learn more.

Posted: 23 Oct 2009 | Published: 23 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Informational applications have become one of the most critical areas of IT activity. How will these challenges be met? This report examines an option -– use of IBM DB2 9.7 as an alternative to Oracle 11g -– that represents a major new opportunity for organizations to meet escalating demand while reducing IT costs.

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 | Published: 20 Oct 2009

SOFTWARE DEMO: The IBM DB2 ROI tool has been designed for developers, database administrators and senior IT management personnel alike, to help them perform a clinical analysis of the cost savings gained from the Storage Optimization feature of DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows.

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 | Published: 19 Oct 2009

VIDEOCAST: Whether you have experience in administering DB2 on the mainframe or Oracle database, you probably have the skills to get started with DB2 for Linux Unix and Windows. Hear from your peers about their recent experiences.

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 | Premiered: 19 Oct 2009

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

WEBCAST: Is data management costing you too much money? Join us for a webcast where two IBM DB2 customers will discuss proven strategies that they have incorporated into their IT operations that have resulted in lowering their overall database costs.

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 | Premiered: 19 Oct 2009

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

WHITE PAPER: Many companies are considering Oracle R12 to help them thrive in the global business environment. But upgrading can affect the organization as a whole as well as processes and underlying technologies. To help you avoid costs and delays and take full advantage of the software, AT&T experts outline key steps for assessing your upgrade readiness.

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 | Published: 19 Oct 2009

EBOOK: This e-book from IBM discusses three solutions that can help you deal with data growth, optimize your resources for the best possible throughput, and increase overall application and database performance.

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 | Published: 19 Oct 2009

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: 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

EDITORIAL RESOURCE GUIDE: 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

EGUIDE: Growth of data on databases and applications can lead to failure to meet service levels which stems from the high TCO involved in maintaining, supporting, and planning for growth. Read this E-Guide and explore the advantages of having a clear data growth management strategy. Discover 6 key solutions for managing your data before it manages you.

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 | Published: 08 Oct 2009