Database Administration Reports

EZINE: When a separate team is tasked with patching your SharePoint servers, play it safe by adding code retention policies to your governance plan. In this month's issue, learn how to use governance policies effectively so you can respond quickly when a buggy patch puts SharePoint at risk.

Posted: 18 May 2010 | Published: 18 May 2010

SOFTWARE DEMO: Ontrack® PowerControls™ saves time and costs to search, recover, restore and manage data in Microsoft® Exchange and Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server environments. It’s easy and offers granular level management to produce quick, relevant results.

Posted: 17 May 2010 | Premiered: 17 May 2010

CASE STUDY: In 2005, Fenwick & West selected Microsoft SharePoint as its next-generation intranet, extranet, and collaboration platform. It soon became clear, however, that migration would be an obstacle. Read this case study to learn about their migration solution. 

Posted: 29 Apr 2010 | Published: 29 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses both Microsoft's out-of-box migration approaches and Metalogix's SharePoint Site Migration Manager 2010. It describes common migration scenarios, and how those scenarios can be addressed using the different migration approaches.

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 | Published: 28 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: Melissa Data’s WebSmart Services can handle your data quality needs. Ensure that your contact data, including addresses, names, phone numbers, and emails are valid, and use existing data to append additional information to enhance initiatives. The WebSmart services can be integrated into the business chain to ensure the integrity of your database.

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 | Published: 20 Apr 2010

PODCAST: Join us in this informative podcast as Ian Abramson, President of the International Oracle Users Group, shares his thoughts on Oracle's latest database innovation - the 11g Release 2 - and discusses the numerous opportunities for better performance and simpler management that will allow companies to better optimize their IT investments.

Posted: 15 Apr 2010 | Premiered: Apr 15, 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This Presentation Transcript is an introduction to database activity monitoring and covers the basics of how this important technology works. It also offers tips on how to demonstrate to business leaders that database activity monitoring can not only help data protection efforts, but can also augment an organisational compliance program.

Posted: 16 Mar 2010 | Published: 16 Mar 2010

EBOOK: IT organizations face many data challenges. Data distribution rates and the quantity of data that consumers use is expanding exponentially in the global marketplace. Read this e-book to gain an understanding of the Sybase Replication Server and learn a series of best practices to consider when implementing a database replication strategy.

Posted: 08 Mar 2010 | Published: 05 Mar 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

EZINE: Business intelligence is a hot topic in 2010, especially with the upcoming release of Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 R2 being dubbed as the "BI release." In this e-zine, one SQL Server expert breaks down exactly what goes into self-service BI, where it works and where it falls short.

Posted: 16 Feb 2010 | Published: 16 Feb 2010

EBOOK: Database consolidation can take many forms, but getting the most out of your available resources is always the goal. Read this E-Book to learn about your SQL Server consolidation options.

Posted: 08 Feb 2010 | Published: 08 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: This informative white paper explains how the new Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node offers enhanced high availability for single-instance databases, protecting from both planned and unplanned downtime.

Posted: 13 Jan 2010 | Published: 17 Dec 2009

SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD: Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer delivers all-in-one monitoring for the data center. A single interface provides a view to the availability and performance of servers and network and storage devices on a network. It eases troubleshooting without agents.

Posted: 13 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 12 Nov 2009

EBOOK: Learn all about in-database technology in this E-book, designed to give you a complete overview of the technology and how it can be leveraged successfully. Read on to learn why more companies are choosing to leverage this new technology - and learn more about their ROI and business results.

Posted: 11 Nov 2009 | Published: 11 Nov 2009

EBOOK: In this E-Book, data warehousing and BI expert Rick Sherman explains how you can take advantage of BI trends to ensure that you get the right information to the right people at the right times, so they can make the best possible decisions.

Posted: 09 Nov 2009 | Published: 09 Nov 2009

VIDEO: Watch this 10 minute video and discover what Oracle compatibility means for your business from a technical, and skills point of view. This video also offers multiple low risk strategies for using Postgres Plus Advanced Server to lower your Oracle costs and utilize the advantages of the most advanced open source database available.

Posted: 09 Nov 2009 | Premiered: 09 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

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Check out this transcript of a presentation given by Sumeet Bansal, Fusion-io Principal Solutions Architect, to learn how Fusion-io solutions enhance SQL server performance, improve customer experience, and optimize storage management systems.

Posted: 12 Oct 2009 | Published: 30 Sep 2009

EZINE: InfoPath is a powerful SharePoint tool, but the easiest techniques aren't always the best ones. In this month's issue, learn how to incorporate best practices into your InfoPath forms development process to yield the biggest benefit for your company.

Posted: 17 Sep 2009 | Published: 17 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Database growth, long-term data retention regulations and storage requirements increase operational costs. Yet, archiving complex relational data poses many challenges. Optim Data Growth Solution provides proven technology and comprehensive capabilities that make archiving complex relational data practical and desirable.

Posted: 04 Sep 2009 | Published: 01 Dec 2008

TRIAL SOFTWARE: Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer delivers all-in-one monitoring for the data center. A single interface provides a view to the availability and performance of servers and network and storage devices on a network. It eases troubleshooting without agents.

Posted: 19 Aug 2009 | Premiered: 01 Aug 2009

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: In this presentation transcript, Ellen O'Brien interviews Bill Peldzus, Vice President of Data Center Services at GlassHouse Technologies. Bill talks about helping customers with data center migration and consolidation projects and names the two biggest challenges out there today - cost and expense and the overall complexity of a project.

Posted: 18 Aug 2009 | Published: 01 Aug 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

WHITE PAPER: This White Paper describes a number of real-life applications and databases interoperability scenarios and explains how an Open Source approach helps in solving interoperability challenges. Read this paper to learn more about successfully connecting new technology deployments with existing infrastructure.

Posted: 28 Jul 2009 | Published: 28 Jul 2009

PODCAST: This podcast discusses a wide range of PostgreSQL features, functionality, and performance that are critical to enterprise database deployments and contrasts them to MySQL's current offering.

Posted: 24 Jul 2009 | Premiered: Jul 21, 2009