Database Management White Papers

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: IT leaders are challenged by the growth of the amount of data they have to manage. While data management encompasses several areas of an organization, ensuring the data protection and business continuity is one of the most critical aspects. Inside this white paper, uncover strategies for avoiding data loss and lack of application availability.

Posted: 02 Dec 2011 | Published: 02 Dec 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

WHITE PAPER: This paper focuses on key Oracle Database 11g capabilities that help IT departments better optimize their storage infrastructure.

Posted: 14 Oct 2011 | Published: 12 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, learn how to improve your information management, increasing the ability to manage, secure, query, and administer information with high levels of performance. Uncover how Oracle Database 11g Release 2 includes a wide range of capabilities to allow for this intelligent management and analysis.

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 | Published: 03 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper you'll learn how to review the common causes of application downtime and discusses new technologies available to help avoid increasing costs during this downtime.

Posted: 03 Oct 2011 | Published: 03 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses the challenges, solutions and importance of data management consolidation within an organization.

Posted: 13 Sep 2011 | Published: 13 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses the importance of data quality operations and how to successfully implement a data quality strategy into your organization.

Posted: 13 Sep 2011 | Published: 13 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: A comprehensive look at the full potential of business intelligence (BI) and how you can use it to predict trends in your business.

Posted: 12 Sep 2011 | Published: 12 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explains the benefits of working with a services appoarch to data quality and how you can avoid errors within your data.

Posted: 09 Sep 2011 | Published: 09 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: This document briefly covers key differences between IBM® WebSphere® Application Server and Oracle WebLogic Server. While both products are of high quality and will perform well even in demanding mission-critical environments, there are still some differences in their efficiency and resulting total cost of ownership.

Posted: 02 Sep 2011 | Published: 02 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: Comparing DBA Productivity: An Oracle / DB2 Task Complexity Analysis - A must read, this study dives into six  common DBA administration task areas, showing quantitatively that DB2 offers simpler administration  and helps achieve time savings as compared to Oracle Database.

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 | Published: 30 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper will discuss how Vertica enhances the capabilities of analytical work through the implementation of different architecture for relational database-based analytical work. By simply rotating the orientation of the database from rows to columns, dramatic improvements in load and query speed, scalability and cost effectiveness are achieved.

Posted: 29 Aug 2011 | Published: 01 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines the increased business challenges in structured finance, the impact on the underlying enabling technologies, and describes how the use of Vertica’s column store, massively parallel processing (MPP) approach to database management and analytic processing can address some of these challenges.

Posted: 26 Aug 2011 | Published: 26 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: It may be surprising to find that Zynga is performing some of the most advanced analytics anywhere. With a user base of over 250 million monthly active users, this white paper describes why Zynga uses the Vertica Analytics Platform to improve its business and game features.

Posted: 26 Aug 2011 | Published: 26 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn more about Tableau's unique approach to in-memory software architecture; what it is and what it means for your organization.

Posted: 26 Aug 2011 | Published: 26 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: Learn how to support your SQL Server instances and control your costs and administration requirements.

Posted: 24 Aug 2011 | Published: 24 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper provides technical guidance when deploying Oracle databases on VMware vSphere.

Posted: 24 Aug 2011 | Published: 24 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: Consolidating databases onto a private cloud is a new model for the delivery of database services. Private clouds consolidate servers, storage, operating systems, databases, and mixed workloads onto a shared hardware and software infrastructure.

Posted: 16 Aug 2011 | Published: 01 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes challenges organizations face when using MapReduce, and the means by which Platform MapReduce can address them.

Posted: 16 Aug 2011 | Published: 16 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this overview brief to learn how Oracle Exadata Database Machine addresses the needs of today’s businesses with extreme performance for enterprise data warehousing, online transaction processing (OLTP), and mixed workloads.

Posted: 05 Aug 2011 | Published: 05 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper, Philip Howard reviews the current market for data integration platforms, paying particular attention to open source offerings from Talend.

Posted: 01 Aug 2011 | Published: 01 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: In this case study, Bouygues Telecom uses an analysis platform to help it proactively uncover online and in-store fraud by consumers, dealers and organized crime groups, and prevent the subsequent loss of products and revenue.

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 | Published: 28 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses the ways that identify and social network analysis can help you prevent fraud and enable compliance by focusing not only on transactions, but also on person and groups and how they are related. Learn the requirements for a proactive fraud detection systems, and how ongoing data analysis can alert you to the need for action.

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 | Published: 28 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: Application developers and DBAs looking to migrate databases due to cost concerns, staffing problems, or technology issues should consider this new database compatability layer option to mitigate risk, lower migration cost, and speed the migration process.

Posted: 10 Jun 2011 | Published: 06 Jun 2011