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- Software downloads 2009-11-18
- Oracle's Q1: "We grew faster than SAP"
- Oracle Corp., which is facing a delay of its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, today reported first quarter non-GAAP earnings of $1.5 billion, or 30 cents per share, a three-percent increase over the year-ago quarter. Revenue for the quarter was $5.1 billion, a 7 percent drop from last year. Wall Street...
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- White papers 2009-08-01
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- OLTP Best Practices for HP MSA2000 With Microsoft SQL Server 2008
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- White papers 2009-05-01
- Kickfire: Released for all the right reasons, but with the worst timing?
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- Discussion threads 2009-04-22
- Best Practices for Deploying SSDs in an Oracle OLTP Environment Using Dell EqualLogic Storage
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- White papers 2009-04-01
- You're Gonna Need a Bigger Mouse for that Mainframe
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- Database Upgrade Using Transportable Tablespaces: Oracle Database 11g Release 1
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- White papers 2009-02-01
- DTM DB Stress 1.08.00 (Windows)
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- Software downloads 2009-01-22
- OLTP Performance Comparison: Solid-State Drives Vs. Hard Disk Drives
- Intel Corporation Intel commissioned Principled Technologies PT to compare performance and power for online transaction processing OLTP of two types of disk drives: Intel X25-E Extreme SATA Solid-State Drives (SSD5), standard 15K RPM SAS Hard Disk Drives (HDD5). The paper focused on a single usage scenario: that of a user...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server and Database Machine
- Businesses today increasingly need to leverage a unified database platform to enable the deployment and consolidation of all their applications onto one common infrastructure. Whether supporting OLTP, DW or mixed workloads, a common infrastructure delivers the efficiencies and reusability the data center needs — and provides the reality of cloud...
- White papers 2009-01-01
- Benchmarking Microsoft SQL Server Using VMware ESX Server 3.5
- This paper presents the results of a benchmarking study, in which Brocade used an industry-standard online Transaction Processing Benchmark (TPC-C) in an ESX Server cluster to determine if ESX Server version 3.5 could run 10 simultaneously active VMs running SQL Server with a significant workload on a single ESX Server...
- White papers 2008-12-01
- Blackbox, SWaP, and the z10
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- Discussion threads 2008-11-06
- Oracle Fires A Booming Shot Across The Bow Of The Storage Vendor Establishment
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- Blog posts 2008-09-25
- Federation Supplements The Data Warehouse - Not Either/Or, Never Was
- Few enterprise data warehousing EDW professionals regard the key rival approach--data federation--to be a best practice. Usually, the reasons for this disdain are valid, such as the fact that federated environments are not optimized for heavy-hitting data matching, merging, transformation and cleansing, all of which are essential functions to deliver...
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- Super flash, hyper flash
- Samsung has announced a new SLC flash part with 5x the write/erase cycle spec over standard single-level cell SLC NAND flash. They call it server grade flash. Is this the flash promised land or marketing hype? 5x what? The press release doesn't mention any numbers, but...
- Blog posts 2008-07-17
- Business Intelligence Solution for a Leading Travel Company
- As a part of the company's commitment to providing great customer service, the client deployed an Online Transaction Processing OLTP database hosted on earlier versions of Microsoft SQL Server. It faced the following business challenges: inconsistent information about a customer, sales & marketing team not having the right information at...
- Case studies 2008-06-11
- Costs: Wintel vs. open source
- One of the true wonders of our age is the ability lots of otherwise reasonable people have to tell you with every evidence of believing it themselves that PCs cost a few hundred bucks and last for years - and then go off to spend well over a thousand replacing...
- Blog posts 2008-03-05
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