WHITE PAPER - Optimizing SQL Server performance can be a daunting task, especially for an increasing number of reluctant DBAs faced with managing their organization’s SQL Server databases, despite little training. This white paper provides a high-level overview of core SQL Server performance concepts and an overview of essential SQL Server performance tools.
Posted: February 2, 2012 | Published: February 2, 2012


Topics:  Database Administration | Database Architectures | Database Management | Database Performance Management | Database Security | Databases | SQL | SQL Server

WHITE PAPER - This white paper from Semphonic president, Gary Angel, explains the challenges of warehousing Web analytics data and its limitations for marketing purposes, especially if real-time personalization is the aim. He then looks at Celebrus Technologies—a system which assists with building a digital measurement infrastructure.
Posted: January 30, 2012 | Published: January 25, 2012


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Data Analytics | Data Integration | Data Management | Data Mining | Data Warehouse Architectures | Data Warehouses | Database Architectures

PRODUCT OVERVIEW - This solution brief recommends an integrated server, storage, and database architecture that can help you deploy and scale big data infrastructure so you can realize valuable business insights as quickly as possible.
Posted: January 6, 2012 | Published: January 6, 2012


Topics:  Data Analytics | Data Management | Database Administration | Database Architectures | Database Management | Networking | Server Hardware | Storage Architectures

WEBCAST - In this webcast, representatives from the Commonwealth Bank of Australia discuss how it has consolidated multiple database services, including OLTP applications such as PeopleSoft Financials, onto an Oracle Exadata platform for improved performance and resilience and faster time-to-market.
Posted: December 12, 2011 | Premiered: December 12, 2011


Topics:  Data Management | Data Quality | Data Storage | Data Warehouses | Database Architectures | Database Management | OLTP | Query Tools

WHITE PAPER - This white paper helps you manage more data in a cost-effective way. With data volumes tripling every two years, Oracle advanced compression delivers compression rates of 2 to 4 times across all types of data and applications.  Read this to learn more about how it can help you reduce the disk space and costs of managing large data volumes.
Posted: December 12, 2011 | Published: December 12, 2011


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Business Process Management | Data Storage | Data Warehouses | Database Administration | Database Architectures | Database Management | Database Management Software

EBOOK - In this BeyeNETWORK e-book, data warehousing expert Wayne Eckerson describes how to create a federated business intelligence (BI) architecture that aligns with organizational imperatives.
Posted: December 9, 2011 | Published: December 6, 2011


Topics:  Business Intelligence | Data Analytics | Data Warehouses | Database Architectures | Database Management

WHITE PAPER - This survey explores the biggest issues and solutions around managing today's growing database environments.
Posted: December 5, 2011 | Published: December 5, 2011


Topics:  Data Management | Database Administration | Database Architectures | Database Management | Database Performance Management | Databases | Oracle (Product)

EGUIDE - Some consider SQL Server 2008 R2 a "business intelligence release" because the largest, most publicized changes cater to the BI functionality of the product. There are, however, many other new features and functionalities within SQL Server 2008 R2. In this expert e-guide, readers will learn more about these new features.
Posted: November 22, 2011 | Published: November 2, 2011


Topics:  Database Administration | Database Architectures | Database Design | Database Management | Database Performance Management | Database Security | SQL | SQL Server

WHITE PAPER - Finding the right storage option for your content management system perticualary, SharePoint, can be a challeneging task. BLOBs are emerging as a soild option for a low-cost and high performing storage.
Posted: October 28, 2011 | Published: October 28, 2011


Topics:  Database Architectures | Database Management | Enterprise Content Management | SharePoint | SQL | SQL Server | Unstructured Data

WHITE PAPER - This IDC Event Flash presents the highlights of the Oracle OpenWorld event held in Beijing on December 13-15, 2010. It explores the comparison to Apple that Oracle's integrated software/hardware, performance focus and higher price point are eliciting. The paper also discusses Oracle's role in the current and future market.
Posted: September 29, 2011 | Published: September 29, 2011


Topics:  Data Warehouse Architectures | Data Warehouses | Database Architectures | Database Performance Management | Database Server Software | Middleware | Oracle (Product) | Server Hardware | Server Management

WHITE PAPER - At the core of the virtual data center is the automation of processes that align operations with current business policies. Being able to synthesize this operational information into knowledge of behavior is the crux of Fluid Data storage.
Posted: April 29, 2011 | Published: April 29, 2011


Topics:  Database Administration | Database Architectures | Database Management | Storage Appliances | Storage Architectures | Storage Efficiency | Storage Management

WHITE PAPER - Read this case study and discover how NZ Bus, through local Oracle Certified Partner Database Integrated Solutions, became the first organization in New Zealand and one of the first in Asia-Pacific to deploy Oracle Database 11g Release 2.
Posted: March 16, 2011 | Published: March 16, 2011


Topics:  Database Administration | Database Architectures | Database Design | Database Management | Databases | Oracle (Product)

DATA SHEET - Exadata is Oracle’s fastest growing new product. Much of the growth of Exadata has come at the expense of specialized data warehouse appliance vendors. These vendors have published competitive comparisons to Exadata. Continue reading the learn more.
Posted: February 18, 2011 | Published: February 18, 2011


Topics:  Data Management | Data Storage | Data Warehouse Architectures | Database Architectures | Database Management | Database Performance Management | Oracle (Product)

WHITE PAPER - With database virtualization your database will be running on virtual servers, yet the applications querying it will see it as a normal database. Read on to learn the many benefits of taking this approach.
Posted: December 9, 2010 | Published: December 9, 2010


Topics:  Applications Management | Database Architectures | Database Management | Database Performance Management | Hardware Management | Storage Best Practices | Storage Controllers

WHITE PAPER - In this paper you’ll learn how Snapshots use a copy-on-write operation that minimizes the drive space required for each snapshot. Unless there are changes in the original database, the snapshots will remain empty. Queries to the snapshot for un­changed records will automatically be redirected to the original database.
Posted: July 7, 2010 | Published: July 6, 2010


Topics:  Data Recovery | Data Security | Database Architectures | Database Management | Database Performance Management | Databases | SQL Server