Database Administration White Papers

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes an integrated architecture that can help you maintain high application availability in the event of a database failure. Obtain an in-depth overview of this technology and tips for successful implementation here.

Posted: 06 Jul 2012 | Published: 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: 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: This white paper offers up a comprehensive comparison of the Oracle Exadata and IBM Netezza data warehouse appliance, helping you decide which is the better fit for your business. Read this now and learn how they stack up in terms of online transaction processing (OLTP), query performance, simplicity of operation, value and more.

Posted: 30 May 2012 | Published: 18 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Top five reasons why customers deploy Microsoft SQL Server on EMC VNX Unified Storage.

Posted: 14 May 2012 | Published: 14 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: This paper outlines how Oracle’s investments in the Oracle Optimized Solution for Oracle Database, enable IT organizations to achieve these difficult and opposing challenges.

Posted: 24 Apr 2012 | Published: 24 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: Given that Sybase ASE can now be deployed as the foundation for SAP Business Suite and BW implementations (in addition to Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server and IBM DB2), the information is relevant to SAP customers installing a new instance of SAP or looking to migrate their existing SAP installation to a different database.

Posted: 22 Apr 2012 | Published: 30 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper explains how modeling information architecture (IA) can help reduce the costs associated with data management. Read this now and learn about the benefits of implementing IA and how Sybase's option offers modeling support for database design and enterprise architecture.  

Posted: 16 Apr 2012 | Published: 16 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: More than 300 database and information security professionals were recently surveyed on their data security practices. The results were disturbing with 60% saying that a data breach is likely over the next 12 months. Download this complimentary copy of the 2011 IOUG Data Security Survey Report and see how your organization measures up.

Posted: 10 Apr 2012 | Published: 06 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: Download the "Lower IT Costs with Oracle Database 11g Release 2" white paper and discover new options and features that can help you reduce server and storage costs, improve query performance, and ensure availability during database application upgrades. Learn how you can transform your business, budgets, and service levels.

Posted: 10 Apr 2012 | Published: 28 Feb 2011

WHITE PAPER: Although most organizations are taking stronger measures to protect their data, significant gaps still exist at the very core — their databases. Commissioned by Oracle, this Forrester paper will help you formulate a database security strategy.

Posted: 09 Apr 2012 | Published: 31 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how Oracle Solaris and SPARC are optimized to work with each other to improve security, drive ROI, and minimize TCO in your database environment. Also find technical descriptions of features and capabilities of Solaris that are implemented system-wide to optimize the functionality of the SPARC processor.

Posted: 14 Mar 2012 | Published: 01 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how Oracle In-Memory Database Cache significantly reduces response time, while improving overall application throughput, by bringing data closer to the application, and by processing queries in an in-memory database.

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 | Published: 25 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: Businesses today increasingly need to leverage a unified database platform to enable the deployment and consolidation of all applications onto one common infrastructure. Read on to learn the benefits of incorporating Oracle's Exadata based Database Machine into the IT infrastructure.

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 | Published: 20 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: This reference contains a sampling of real business results that organizations in a variety of industries have achieved by implementing Oracle Exadata. Learn how you can use Oracle Exadata to reduce IT costs through consolidation, manage more data on multiple compression tiers, improve the performance of all applications and much more.

Posted: 06 Mar 2012 | Published: 18 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: Download this white paper to learn about the market-leading e-Commerce solution and how improved performance can lead to increased conversion rates and higher revenue.

Posted: 06 Mar 2012 | Published: 06 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper offers a four-step approach to overcoming the key challenges of an Oracle E-Business Suite R12 upgrade. According to 152 surveyed IT managers, the top issues they'd like to see addressed are: cost and effort estimation, cost justification and impact analysis.

Posted: 02 Mar 2012 | Published: 02 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: This report compares the costs and compression, automation, workload management, and optimization capabilities of DB2 Advanced Enterprise Server Edition (AESE) versus Oracle Database 11g. It also emphasizes the importance of performance management tooling as a means of lowering total cost of ownership (TCO).

Posted: 21 Feb 2012 | Published: 31 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper challenges the x86 processor trend, demonstrating that modern mainframe technology represents a scale-up option to the current racks filled with blades. It looks at the way organizations can benefit in terms of improved agility, increased reliability and cost savings by consolidating Oracle databases onto IBM’s zEnterprise.

Posted: 14 Feb 2012 | Published: 14 Feb 2012

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

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses the procedures for upgrading your Oracle database,— particularly focusing on using Oracle’s real-time data integration software, Oracle GoldenGate— along with the results of such upgrades.

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 | Published: 08 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes configuration considerations, best practices and performance results of TimesTen running on Exalogic.

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 | Published: 05 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper challenges several assumptions about scale-out architectures and explains how consolidation and virtualisation can help you regain control over your infrastructure.

Posted: 09 Nov 2011 | Published: 09 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper contains a sampling of real business results that organizations around the world, in a variety of industries, have achieved by upgrading and standardizing on Oracle Database 11g.

Posted: 14 Oct 2011 | Published: 12 Oct 2011