databases
RSS databasesDutch International School Ready for the Future With New Simplified Storage and Networking Solution
White Paper The school wanted to update its IT infrastructure, and access to emails, databases and internet services across five schools which was slow and unreliable. The British School in the Netherlands was founded in The Hague in 1931 with 20 students. [05 Jul 2008]
The Design of a Robust Persistence Layer for Relational Databases
White Paper It is possible for object-oriented applications to use relational databases as persistence mechanisms without requiring the use of embedded SQL in your application code which couples your object schema to your data schema. [03 Jul 2008]
An Enterprise-Class Plan for Securing Microsoft SQL Server Databases
White Paper Clearly, you need a better plan for securing database data one that accounts for the DBA's expertise and procedures as well as the data itself. This paper describes the requirements of such a plan. It also describes how the SQL-BackTrack for... [03 Jul 2008]
Why Use an ODBMS? Comparison Between Relational and Object Oriented Databases for Object Oriented Application Development
White Paper This White Paper is intended to clarify the differences between relational and object oriented database systems, especially from the perspective of object oriented application development, using programming languages like C++ or Smalltalk. [03 Jul 2008]
High Availability for Partitioned Databases Using Tivoli System Automation
White Paper This paper describes the implementation and design of highly available IBM DB2 Universal Database (DB2 UDB) environments on the IBM Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms (Tivoli SAM). Also included is a detailed description of the DB2 UDB... [03 Jul 2008]
Embedded Java Databases for the New World of Networked Applications
White Paper This white paper discusses the opportunity created by open Internet technologies to introduce a next-generation embedded database solution that enables true distributed, platform-and device-independent computing at a low cost of ownership, while... [03 Jul 2008]
NAS vs. SAN for Database Applications: Using NAS Protocols with Databases
White Paper Depending on the available infrastructure, the exact performance requirements, and the customer's preference, either a Fibre Channel or a NAS infrastructure may be appropriate. This paper shows a number of reasons to give NAS strong consideration... [03 Jul 2008]
Linux Databases: DB2 vs. Oracle Main Report
White Paper The modern database plays a critical role in any business, large or small. The ability to provide reliable, safe, and efficient data services to an organization is a high priority and meeting this need while responding to increasing budget pressure... [03 Jul 2008]
RAID Technology and Large Databases: Issues in Selection and Implementation
White Paper This paper discusses why and how to implement RAID on UNIX ® systems supporting VLDB environments. We will discuss various vendor's products and their differences. We have limited ourselves to the best market leaders, some of them have been... [03 Jul 2008]
Linux Databases: DB2 Vs. Oracle - Executive Summary
White Paper DB2 on Linux has demonstrated that it is more reliable than Oracle with its usage of simpler and more scalable clustering technology. Oracle is harder to use and costs more to install and administer. DB2 is also significantly less expensive to... [03 Jul 2008]
XML for B2B E-Commerce
White Paper B2B trading communities are rapidly evolving so that old economy businesses can achieve Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) between the databases, systems and workflows of themselves and their suppliers, customers and business partners. [03 Jul 2008]
First-Class Views: A Key to User-Centered Computing
White Paper Large database systems (e.g.federations, warehouses) are multi-layer - i.e.a combination of base databases and (virtual or physical) view databases. Much of the functionality required to support first class views can be generated semi-automatically... [03 Jul 2008]
Aggregation of Association Rules
White Paper Dealing with very large databases is one of the defining challenges in data mining, research and development. Some databases are simply too large (e.g.with terabytes of data) to be processed at one time, for efficiency and space reasons, so... [03 Jul 2008]
A Top-Down View of Data Warehousing: A Valuable Tool in Building Business Intelligence & Analytic Applications
White Paper Organizations struggle to manage and update the wealth of information stored in departmental, workgroup and enterprise-wide databases. And today more than ever, executive management realizes that information from these databases needs to be... [03 Jul 2008]
Maximizing Oracle Performance — Bit-Mapped Indexing and Integrated Cached Disk Arrays
White Paper Large databases bring unique performance challenges, particularly in building indexes and optimizing query performance. Now, database architects have two new tools to offer their users vastly improved performance, and thus improved usability in... [03 Jul 2008]
