Database Management White Papers

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: 20 Jan 2011 | Published: 20 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper explains how The IBM® Smart Analytics System family combines hardware, software and services into systems that are integrated and optimized, can be installed in days instead of months, and can be quickly scaled out to support changing business needs. Read on to learn how to deliver business insights faster.

Posted: 23 Dec 2010 | Published: 23 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper explains how Intel and IBM have been working for years to create systems that change the economics of x86 computing. One of the results of that collaboration is a platform for clustered, distributed systems that delivers unprecedented flexibility and scalability.

Posted: 23 Dec 2010 | Published: 23 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper will provide best practice configuration guidelines for using latest storage and server technology (Oracle's Sun FlashFire technology storage devices along with Oracle's Sun servers) to optimize such simulation management solutions.

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 | Published: 21 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This customer reference booklet 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.  We hope you find these success stories helpful in learning how Oracle can help you achieve your business and IT objectives.

Posted: 20 Dec 2010 | Published: 20 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper explains why it’s imperative for any Web-based organization to learn about the distributed caching technology and Oracle Coherence Data Grid technology to combat the increasing demand on the database.

Posted: 20 Dec 2010 | Published: 20 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn about how Oracle Database 11g Release 2 protects your business from all common causes of unplanned downtime and planned downtime, including human error.

Posted: 20 Dec 2010 | Published: 20 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn about a unique data protection and recovery solution that provides the management, monitoring, and automation software to create synchronized standby databases that protect data from failures and other disasters.

Posted: 20 Dec 2010 | Published: 20 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: Learn about the intelligent software in the Oracle Exadata Storage Server that accelerates database query processing by offloading database query processing to the storage layer.

Posted: 16 Dec 2010 | Published: 16 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: The Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database is a memory-optimized relational database that delivers very low response time and very high throughput for performance-critical systems. This paper offers a high level description and then dives down to cover the architecture and key capabilities in detail.

Posted: 04 Nov 2010 | Published: 01 Jul 2009

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: 22 Oct 2010 | Published: 28 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: This guide provides best practice guidelines for deploying Oracle databases on VMware vSphere, including best practice tips for storage, networking and performance.

Posted: 14 Oct 2010 | Published: 14 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: Exadata Smart Flash Cache is the fundamental technology of the Sun Oracle Database Machine Full Rack that enables the processing of up to 1 million random I/O operations per second (IOPS), and the scanning of data within Exadata storage at up to 50 GB/second. Read this paper for more.

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 | Published: 30 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper outlines different considerations for separating decision support systems (DSS) from Transaction Processing (OLTP) environments and touches upon technical procedures for achieving the same, as well as examines data warehouse solutions, different storage topologies, storage interface optimizations and much more.

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 | Published: 29 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper focuses on the SQL Server I/O subsystem and the role it plays in a SharePoint environment. The lessons learned in this paper will help IT Managers build more efficient and effective SharePoint environments on an SQL back-end.

Posted: 08 Oct 2010 | Published: 24 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: Exadata Hybrid Columnar Compression enables the highest levels of data compression and provides enterprises with tremendous cost-savings and performance improvements due to reduced I/O. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 | Published: 07 Dec 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper focuses on configuring Oracle GoldenGate to run on Sun Oracle Database Machine. Sun Oracle Database Machine can act as the source database, as the target database, or in some cases as both source and target databases for GoldenGate processing.

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 | Published: 19 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: One of the key operational aspects of deploying a Sun Oracle Database Machine is to ensure that database backups are performed and restoration of the Oracle Database is possible if disaster strikes. This paper describes the best practices for setting up the optimal backup and recovery strategy to protect your mission-critical data.

Posted: 07 Oct 2010 | Published: 30 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines how the Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server allows companies to accelerate database performance, handle change and growth in scalable and incremental steps, and deliver mission-critical data availability and protection.

Posted: 05 Oct 2010 | Published: 01 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper will describe how Change Data Capture (CDC), a specialized function of data integration, can optimize value in both analytical and operational systems within a data-driven environment. Continue reading this paper to learn more about these ten tips for CDC and learn how to maximize data integration value in analytic operational systems.

Posted: 04 Oct 2010 | Published: 04 Oct 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: 01 Oct 2010 | Published: 25 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: In this white paper you’ll see that granular access control can only be achieved through aligning the application user model with the database security system.

Posted: 27 Sep 2010 | Published: 27 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: EMC has long been considered the leader in information management and storage solutions for companies of all sizes all over the world. And EMC backup, recovery, and archiving solutions are specifically designed to conquer midsize workloads and business challenges. Read this white paper to learn more about EMC midsize solutions.

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 | Published: 01 Dec 2007

WHITE PAPER: The objective of this white paper is to identify the consolidation factor for an Oracle database running Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) workloads on legacy 9th Generation PowerEdge 2950 2U 2 socket to the new 11G PowerEdge R810 2U 4/2 socket servers.

Posted: 09 Sep 2010 | Published: 01 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: New IBM DB2 features make compatibility easy. In this guide, you’ll learn about native support for PL/SQL, new data types, scalar functions, improved concurrency, built-in packages, OCI, SQL*Plus, data movement tools, best practices and more—all designed to improve your ability to run applications on both DB2 and Oracle platforms

Posted: 01 Sep 2010 | Published: 01 Sep 2010