Database Administrators White Papers

WHITE PAPER: Review this cost comparison study of Oracle Database 11g R2 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 and uncover which technology came out on top. Find out which solution offered a 49% higher time savings, 46% more in complexity savings, and whose time savings amounted to saving $58,800 per year per database administrator.

Posted: 03 Jul 2012 | Published: 25 Jun 2012

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: Top five reasons why customers deploy Microsoft SQL Server on EMC VNX Unified Storage.

Posted: 14 May 2012 | Published: 14 May 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

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: Comparing DBA Productivity: An Oracle / DB2 Task Complexity Analysis - A must read, this study dives into six  common DBA administration task areas, showing quantitatively that DB2 offers simpler administration  and helps achieve time savings as compared to Oracle Database.

Posted: 30 Aug 2011 | Published: 30 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper provides technical guidance when deploying Oracle databases on VMware vSphere.

Posted: 24 Aug 2011 | Published: 24 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: Designed for organizations that run online transaction processing (OLTP) applications on distributed systems, IBM® DB2® pureScale™ offers clustering technology that helps deliver high availability and exceptional scalability transparent to applications.

Posted: 30 Mar 2011 | Published: 30 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper explains how the synergy of DB2 and Power Systems can help businesses simplify deployment of Web applications, achieve cost-effective large-scale processing, construct a large-capacity messaging backbone and consolidate workloads-- all accelerating your time to value

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 | Published: 18 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to take a look at Informix 11.7 and you’ll discover unprecedented advantages. With the introduction of Informix Flexible Grid, it’s easy to perform routine maintenance and upgrades at all your geographic locations from a single site—and you can do it with zero downtime. Read on to learn more about the advantages of Informix 11.7.

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 | Published: 18 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: Technical white paper covering the impact of XML on data warehousing and how to deliver new levels of business analysis and bring users closer to their data.

Posted: 17 Mar 2011 | Published: 17 Mar 2011

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: This customer reference booklet contains a sampling of real business results that organizations around the world, in a variety of industries, have achieved by upgrading and standardizing on Oracle Database 11g.  We hope you find these success stories helpful in learning how Oracle can help you achieve your business and IT objectives.

Posted: 20 Dec 2010 | Published: 20 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper explains why it’s imperative for any Web-based organization to learn about the distributed caching technology and Oracle Coherence Data Grid technology to combat the increasing demand on the database.

Posted: 20 Dec 2010 | Published: 20 Dec 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn about how Oracle Database 11g Release 2 protects your business from all common causes of unplanned downtime and planned downtime, including human error.

Posted: 20 Dec 2010 | Published: 20 Dec 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: This paper will describe how Change Data Capture (CDC), a specialized function of data integration, can optimize value in both analytical and operational systems within a data-driven environment. Continue reading this paper to learn more about these ten tips for CDC and learn how to maximize data integration value in analytic operational systems.

Posted: 04 Oct 2010 | Published: 04 Oct 2010

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 guide outlines the common steps that people go through when they are interested in evaluating an open source database (e.g. one or both of the Postgres Plus products). This guide will also provide links to other documents/collateral that will help you accomplish each step. Read on to learn about these common steps in evaluation in more detail.

Posted: 16 Jun 2010 | Published: 15 Jun 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: Read this paper to learn how Oracle Database 11g Real Application Testing (Oracle Real Application Testing) facilitates new technology adoption.

Posted: 09 Dec 2008 | Published: 09 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: As new technologies become more widely adopted, your role as a database administrator (DBA) will change. This paper outlines the common challenges you face, the critical tasks you perform, and examines the trends will impact your role as a DBA.

Posted: 23 Jun 2008 | Published: 23 Jun 2008