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A Technical Overview of the Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Exadata Storage Server
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Businesses today increasingly need to leverage a unified database platform to enable the deployment and consolidation of all applications onto one common infrastructure. Read on to learn the benefits of incorporating Oracle's Exadata based Database Machine into the IT infrastructure.
Posted: 12 Mar 2012 | Published: 20 Jan 2011

Oracle Corporation

Top Five Reasons to Choose Toad® Over SQL Developer
sponsored by Dell Software
WHITE PAPER: Can you actually save more money using Toad® rather than SQL Developer - a free product? The answer is “yes!” In this surprising Quest technical brief, learn how Toad’s revolutionary new features save you time and money while dramatically increasing your productivity. Read the technical brief today.
Posted: 08 Feb 2011 | Published: 08 Feb 2011

Dell Software

White Paper: SuperCluster M6-32: Taking Oracle Engineered Systems to the Next Level
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This guide explores the Oracle SuperCluster M6-32, which offers extremely large memory capacities and improves performance levels for your business.
Posted: 07 Feb 2014 | Published: 31 Dec 2013

Oracle Corporation

Introduction to Apache Cassandra
sponsored by DataStax
WHITE PAPER: The following white paper provides an overview of Cassandra and details how it differs from traditional database solutions. Uncover how this massively scalable NoSQL database offers more than just a solution to data, and most importantly, learn if this solution is right for you and your organization.
Posted: 11 Dec 2013 | Published: 11 Dec 2013

DataStax

Object Persistence and Agile Software Development
sponsored by Versant Corp.
WHITE PAPER: Agile Software Development is one of the most effective methodologies to develop application software. This paper examines and compares RDBMS with several object persistence methods within the context of Agile Software Development by quantifying the impact of these methods on the velocity and success of an agile application development project.
Posted: 03 Mar 2010 | Published: 01 Dec 2009

Versant Corp.

Reduce CPU Usage with 'SMART' SQL
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses how and why to design SQL that will reduce the number of times calls are made to DB2. We'll look at how to write SMART applications rather than writing applications that act like generic I/O modules to DB2, properly tune SMART SQL, and how to exploit SQL and application features in DB2 on z/OS version 8 and 9.
Posted: 30 Nov 2009 | Published: 30 Nov 2009

BMC Software, Inc.

IBM Informix Software Product Family: Version 11.7
sponsored by IBM
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

IBM

Toad® for SQL Server
sponsored by Dell Software
WHITE PAPER: This brief paper focuses on Toad for SQL Server, a unified solution that allows you to achieve the highest level of code quality, performance and reliability. Inside, 10 features of Toad for SQL Server are presented.
Posted: 16 May 2014 | Published: 04 Oct 2010

Dell Software

Oracle Exadata Storage Server X2-2
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Learn about the intelligent software in the Oracle Exadata Storage Server that accelerates database query processing by offloading database query processing to the storage layer.
Posted: 16 Dec 2010 | Published: 16 Dec 2010

Oracle Corporation

MongoDB on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
sponsored by MongoDB, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Check out this paper and discover how to deploy MongoDB onto Red Hat Enterprise 6.2. In addition to a step-by-step process for deployment, you'll also learn how to take advantage of features of the underlying system, several deployment scenarios for high performance database read and writes, and gain an in-depth look at MongoDB.
Posted: 27 Aug 2012 | Published: 01 May 2012

MongoDB, Inc.