Database Administration Reports

EZINE: Before committing to a public or private cloud architecture, evaluate the benefits and especially the tradeoffs associated with each. Also in this issue, determine what needs are most important when planning your virtual applications, and find out how to monitor the performance of applications in the cloud.

Posted: 27 Feb 2012 | Published: 06 Apr 2011

CASE STUDY: This executive brief highlights the data management challenges of a California-based organization faced and illustrates how their chosen solution resulted in cost savings and in better overall use of IT resources – an exceeded all expectations.

Posted: 07 May 2012 | Published: 15 Feb 2012

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Read this presentation transcript now and learn about these advances that are possible by combining the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 product family with IBM DB2 10 for Linux, Unix and Windows.

Posted: 30 Apr 2012 | Published: 17 Apr 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

CASE STUDY: This executive brief highlights the data management challenges a California-based organization faced and illustrates how their chosen solution, Oracle Database Appliance, resulted in cost savings and in better overall use of IT resources - and exceeded all expectations.

Posted: 09 Apr 2012 | Published: 29 Feb 2012

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

RESOURCE CENTER: This resource center offers up white papers, videos and more on the business intelligence (BI) capabilities of Oracle's products. The first paper provides an overview of the Oracle BI Foundation Suite, discussing its features and technical architecture, while another piece outlines cloud-ready BI with Oracle Business Intelligence 11g.

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 | Published: 26 Mar 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

EGUIDE: Over the past 20 years mid-range relational databases were a hot commodity. But multiple databases, or database sprawl, leads to a much higher total cost of ownership (TCO) and can be challenging to manage. This guide outlines tips and strategies that Oracle databases have to help you reduce your number of databases and cut your TCO.

Posted: 14 Mar 2012 | Published: 14 Mar 2012

EGUIDE: Oracle Database Appliance is a new high-availability database strategy designed to fit the budget and performance needs of small and large businesses alike. Read this guide to learn why companies are specifically choosing to implement Oracle Database Appliance over other vendors offering similar systems.

Posted: 14 Mar 2012 | Published: 14 Mar 2012

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: 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

EGUIDE: Read this e-guide to discover what challenges to expect when embarking on an E-Business Suite (EBS) R12 upgrade and strategies for overcoming them. Learn why an EBS upgrade is important, uncover new features of R12, and figure out how long your upgrade might take.

Posted: 07 Mar 2012 | Published: 06 Mar 2012

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

EGUIDE: This e-guide focuses on the impact of infrastructure on database performance.

Posted: 28 Feb 2012 | Published: 28 Feb 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

EBOOK: With support for IBM DB2 for z/OS Version 8 retiring in April 2012, customers will have the option to skip a level and upgrade straight to DB2 10. This e-book is designed to help customers decide whether they are a good candidate to make this leap and provides best practices for planning an effective migration strategy.

Posted: 13 Feb 2012 | Published: 31 Oct 2011

EGUIDE: Business intelligence (BI) has become more essential than ever before as organizations strive to stay one step ahead of competitors. Inside this expert resource, learn how IT leaders use emerging strategies for extracting meaningful information from growing stores of data with state-of-the-art BI systems.

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 | Published: 04 Jan 2012