Database Performance Management White Papers

WHITE PAPER: Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization features a unique and revolutionary virtualization technology called KVM (Kernelbased Virtual Machine) that converts the Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel into a virtualization platform.

Posted: 22 Nov 2010 | Published: 22 Nov 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: Learn how to support your SQL Server instances and control your costs and administration requirements.

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 | Published: 14 Oct 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Learn about the new enhancements to DB2 9.7 that enable you to make online changes to the database schema while objects remain fully accessible during modification.

Posted: 01 Sep 2010 | Published: 01 Sep 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

WHITE PAPER: Recent reports expose the monumental growth rate of data volumes. With increasing data volumes comes a need for computational power to absorb and analyze all this data in an attempt to gain a competitive edge. This paper attempts to shed some light on the decision process for selecting a specialty analytic server in today's business environments.

Posted: 05 Aug 2010 | Published: 05 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: A Winter Corporation white paper, this paper examines the architecture and performance of Sybase IQ in view of the requirements of demanding new BI and data warehouse applications. Read this paper to learn more.

Posted: 05 Aug 2010 | Published: 05 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper for a discussion of the Community Technology Preview (CTP) process, and the CTP5 incarnation specifically. This paper examines mission-critical features, enterprise management features, database data and programmability, and new business intelligence features.

Posted: 12 Jul 2010 | Published: 15 Jan 2008

WHITE PAPER: Centralized SAN data storage for VMware environments needs to meet the demands placed on it by the organization. These requirements typically include high capacity, high speed, high reliability and must be easy to deploy and manage. Read this white paper for more.

Posted: 11 May 2010 | Published: 11 May 2010

WHITE PAPER: Organizations can upgrade or migrate to Oracle Database 11g with zero downtime. Using Oracle GoldenGate’s real-time data integration and replication capabilities, businesses can perform rolling upgrades, manage partial or phased migrations and upgrades, conduct data verification, and implement a reliable failback strategy.

Posted: 16 Mar 2010 | Published: 19 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: Discover the differences between PostgreSQL, Postgres Plus Standard Server and Postgres Plus Advanced Server and optimize your choice of open source database. You'll learn enough about the different capabilities, modules, and uses for each product to make the best Postgres choice for your organization.

Posted: 02 Mar 2010 | Published: 02 Mar 2010

WHITE PAPER: The benefits of MaxIQ are illustrated by comparing the performance levels between an Adaptec Series 5 storage controller with MaxIQ SSD caching, and an Adaptec Series 5 storage controller without MaxIQ. The tests are performed using industry standard performance tools and/or validation via real world web server application testing.

Posted: 15 Feb 2010 | Published: 11 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses how and why to design SQL that will reduce the number of times calls are made to DB2. We'll look at how to write SMART applications rather than writing applications that act like generic I/O modules to DB2, properly tune SMART SQL, and how to exploit SQL and application features in DB2 on z/OS version 8 and 9.

Posted: 30 Nov 2009 | Published: 30 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: 28 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper reviews the common causes of application downtime and discusses Oracle's Maximum Availability Architecture framework that provides clear and concise guidance on implementing best practices using Oracle's proven high availability technologies.

Posted: 25 Sep 2009 | Published: 25 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: The Hitachi NAS Platform, powered by BlueArc, delivers a high-performance, intelligent and scalable multiprotocol solution. This document describes best practices for using Oracle databases on Linux with NAS connectivity provided by the Hitachi NAS Platform through the NFS protocol.

Posted: 14 Sep 2009 | Published: 01 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: In this whitepaper presented by the Edison Group, reveals how Oracle Database widens the manageability lead over Microsoft SQL Server 2008. The study shows how Oracle Database can save 43% in time and 41% in database management costs over Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

Posted: 09 Sep 2009 | Published: 15 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper explores the data explosion phenomenon and why column-oriented database systems are able to provide the boost that is needed to gain the performance edge. The paper contrasts row-oriented systems with column-oriented systems, and then elaborates on the benefits of the columnar approach.

Posted: 06 Aug 2009 | Published: 01 Jul 2009