Database

Ensure the reliability of the data your SOA environment depends upon with Viral Data In SOA: An Enterprise Pandemic.
Service-oriented environments can share data more widely and rapidly than ever before. Incorrect data can easily trigger inappropriate actions, prevent urgent actions from being taken, disrupt customer transactions and relationships, generate compliance problems, and damage business performance. [...]

Published quarterly, Profit Magazine is distributed to more than 110,000 C-level executives and provides business leaders with a road map on turning their technology investments into top and bottom line advantages.
Profit Magazine illuminates the business impact of technology and provides industry and line-of-business intelligence for your specific challenges. At the same time, Profit Magazine also [...]

Today Cisco announced the winners of its “Think Inside the Box” Developer Contest. Launched last fall, the competition challenged application developers around the world to develop applications that run on the Cisco Application Extension Platform (AXP), which resides on the popular Cisco Integrated Services Router (ISR).
Cisco launched this contest to encourage collaborative development through the [...]

Oracle Magazine is published bimonthly and distributed to more than 550,000 of the top IT managers, database administrators, and developers.
Oracle Magazine contains technology strategy articles, sample code, tips, Oracle and partner news, how to articles for developers and DBAs, and more. Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world’s largest enterprise software company.
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In this RunAs Radio podcast, Richard and I talk to Buck Woody about SQL CMS, a tool he’s contributed to codeplex. SQL CMS is actually a collection of tools that together provide content management of SQL Server and other servers in your network, allowing you to identify different servers, who’s responsible for managing them, their [...]

Oracle PL/SQL Programming, Fifth Edition is the definitive reference on PL/SQL, considered throughout the database community to be the best Oracle programming book available. Like its predecessors, this fifth edition of Oracle PL/SQL Programming covers language fundamentals, advanced coding techniques, and best practices for using Oracle’s powerful procedural language. Thoroughly updated for Oracle Database 11g [...]

In this RunAs Radio podcast, Richard and I talk to Jessica Moss about SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). SSRS can replace typical reporting products like Crystal Reports, but also provides a tool for having users build their own reports. The conversation also moves into the Business Intelligence side of reporting, looking at how SSRS works [...]

Want to learn about databases without the tedium? With its unique combination of Japanese-style comics and serious educational content, The Manga Guide to Databases is just the book for you.
Princess Ruruna is stressed out. With the king and queen away, she has to manage the Kingdom of Kod’s humongous fruit-selling empire. Overseas departments, scads of [...]

The O’Reilly School of Technology (OST), has announced a new Database Administration Certificate series designed to help current or aspiring DBAs learn new skills, build experience, and earn University Certification, all online.
The self-paced series comprises four courses covering the core technical and theoretical skills necessary for a complete understanding of database administration using the popular [...]

This white paper provides practical recommendations and facts to consider for a successful deployment of open source software.
In the beginning, open source solutions were the shiny play things of the techno crowd. After all, they were fun, new, and most important, free. No one would have considered using them in any real world corporate IT [...]

Discover the type of Disaster Recovery solution that can reduce deployment costs and provide low operational cost of management and scalability.
Rapid restoration can mean the difference between survival and the end of a business. Restoration from tape can take days or even weeks. The Pillar Axiom solution enables cost-effective, rapid restores, secure copies to offsite [...]

How do the experts solve difficult problems when working with data? Beautiful Data explains this and more as it gives you an opportunity to look over the shoulders of prominent data designers, managers, and handlers for a glimpse into some of their most interesting projects.
The authors think aloud as they work through their projects and [...]

Oracle 9i administrators can certify on Oracle 10G by passing this exam. The ExamForce 1Z0-040 Oracle Database 10G New Features for Administrators practice exam provides their unique triple testing mode to instantly set a baseline of your knowledge and focus your study where you need it most.
CramMaster 1Z0-040 covers the following Oracle recommended objective categories:

Installation
Server [...]

Learn the six criteria for assessing backup needs.
Whether a business is small, medium or large, it must have a well-written plan for backing up the servers. Planning a backup strategy up-front and documenting not only the backup process but also the restore process will save you a ton of time in the end. Because of [...]

Pillar Data Systems will give you ten good reasons to pair your Oracle Environment with the Pillar Axiom.
The world-class power of Oracle integrated with the world’s most efficient storage solution from Pillar Data Systems results in the most cost-effective, highly available networked data warehouse available today. The close collaboration between Pillar and Oracle includes complementary [...]

Discover how to wait less and do more with high performance Intel Solid State Drives.
Watch the informative video, Intel Solid State Drives Technology Video, and learn what’s 100x faster than a standard hard disk drive. Bring a new level of storage performance and reliability to your application with Intel X25-M and X18-M Mainstream SATA Solid-State [...]

Approximately a third of the electricity consumed by large data centers doesn’t power the computer servers that conduct online transactions, serve Web pages or store information. Instead, that electricity must be used for cooling the servers, a demand that continues to increase as computer processing power grows.
And the trend toward cloud computing will expand the [...]

Learn about everything you’ll need to build and maintain your Linux servers, and to deploy Web applications to them.
Whether you’re planning on running Linux at home, or on a leased Web server, this book will walk you step-by-step through all of the common administration tasks, from managing traffic reporting to log-file rotation.
This guide even includes [...]

Simply SQL is a practical step-by-step guide to writing SQL.
Teach yourself SQL — the easy way! You’ll learn how to make the most of your data using best-practice SQL code. Rather than bore you with theory, it focuses on the practical use of SQL with common databases and uses plenty of diagrams, easy-to-read text, and [...]

Although SQL is an old language, it’s going to be around for a lot longer, and has a bright future in store, says author Alan Beaulieu. “Properly designed, a relational database can handle huge amounts of data, and SQL is a language for generating, manipulating, and retrieving data from such a relational database,” explains Beaulieu [...]