Data Base Administrators White Papers

WHITE PAPER: This white paper offers up a comprehensive comparison of the Oracle Exadata and IBM Netezza data warehouse appliance, helping you decide which is the better fit for your business. Read this now and learn how they stack up in terms of online transaction processing (OLTP), query performance, simplicity of operation, value and more.

Posted: 30 May 2012 | Published: 18 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: With IBM DB2 pureScale transparent application scaling, you can transparently add capacity to your network to handle fluctuations in demand without changing the application. pureScale technology also helps to deliver active-active high availability. Find out how these features work. 

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 | Published: 15 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Toad for Oracle v10.5 adds new features and enhances many existing ones. These changes are designed to save you time, increase accuracy and give you better visibility of your work environment - whether you’re a developer working in an unfamiliar database or maintaining legacy code, or a DBA trying to manage multiple databases.

Posted: 20 Jul 2010 | Published: 20 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: This resource introduces a shared infrastructure designed for remote and small office environments, and discusses its usage as a Microsoft SQL Server database platform.

Posted: 12 Nov 2013 | Published: 30 Jun 2013

WHITE PAPER: View this white paper to learn more about the necessary steps to setup an SAP system. It describes the required Oracle software environment settings on the database and other information on how to install SAP required database patches.

Posted: 24 Apr 2013 | Published: 24 Apr 2013

WHITE PAPER: This quick guide compares the capabilities of three of today's top database management systems – MySQL, MongoDB and NuoDB.

Posted: 03 Mar 2014 | Published: 31 Dec 2013

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes the advantages of consolidating Microsoft SQL Server database application workloads to a virtualization environment, and introduces a server platform that can help you drive success.

Posted: 08 Nov 2013 | Published: 31 Jul 2012

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines storage obstacles that DBAs are dealing with today, and why workarounds that attempt to solve the problem only defer them and don't attack the root cause. View now to learn about Oracle's co-engineered combination of the database, OS, file system, and storage can conquer these database storage problems.

Posted: 11 Jun 2014 | Published: 31 Dec 2013

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: This resource examines how big data is impacting the modern database, and offers advice to help you take full advantage of the big data opportunity.

Posted: 12 Dec 2013 | Published: 30 Apr 2013