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Databases lean on open source
News Following in the footsteps of the Linux operating system, open-source databases are moving toward mainstream use and threatening proprietary software alternatives, according to a new survey. Open-source databases are in the experimentation phase of...
[March 9, 2004, 7:15]
Databases and MIDP, Part 1: Understanding the Record Management System
White Papers This paper is the first in a series that will explore RMS and the larger issues surrounding its use in MIDP applications, such as interacting with external data sources like relational databases. A key subsystem of the Mobile Information Device...
[November 19, 2004, 2:00]
Programming PHP: Databases
White Papers PHP has support for over 20 databases, including the most popular commercial and open source varieties. This paper covers how to access databases from PHP. Relational database systems such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle are the backbone of most...
[October 17, 2007, 1:00]
Software Maker Finds SQL Server Supports Huge Databases, Saving 67 Percent Over Oracle
White Papers Servigistics worked with Microsoft to benchmark its solution on the Windows platform and found that Microsoft technologies outperformed UNIX, even with massively large databases, for one-third the cost.
[February 20, 2008, 0:02]
Monitor, Manage, and Report on Your Database Batch Jobs Utilizing BMC CONTROL-M Application Integration for Databases
White Papers This webcast talks about using the Application Integration for Databases (The AI for Databases job editing form, Databases supported, and more). This webcast will revolve around an Application Integration (AI) developed by a BMC Partner (GSS).
[August 1, 2009, 1:21]
Storage Capacity Management for Oracle Databases
White Papers Do you have sufficient space capacity to support your growing Oracle databases and applications? Simply purchasing more and more storage doesn't fix the problem. Effectively managing capacity in your Oracle database environment offers fewer...
[July 2, 2009, 12:07]
Smaller databases best, even if they restrict police
News Discrete databases make it easier to set appropriate rules for access and storage, which is why the Conservative Party is against centralisation of data, shadow security minister Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones tells ZDNet UK.
[November 11, 2008, 15:00]
Backing Up Databases Using ADSMPIPE and the TSM API: Examples Using Linux
White Papers This paper describes how you can use the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager application programming interface with the ADSMPIPE utility to perform online backups of various databases. This paper uses examples of specific databases running on Linux (MySQL...
[September 27, 2005, 3:00]
Feedback-Based Scheduling for Back-End Databases in Shared Dynamic Content Server Clusters
White Papers While replication provides scaling and high availability, feedback scheduling dynamically allocates tasks to commodity databases across workloads in response to peak loads or failure conditions thus providing quality of service.
[August 4, 2006, 0:00]
Educational Product Distributor Replaces Eight Databases With One
White Papers HC's customer information was scattered across eight different GoldMine databases. Customer service performed redundant entry of data, sales people toggled among databases to find customer information, and lead sources were not easily tracked.
[January 11, 2007, 0:00]
Maximized ROI for a Large Insurance Company by Remotely Managing Business Critical Applications & Databases
White Papers MindTree Consulting undertook the end to end remote management of the business critical applications & databases of a large insurance company Based out of North America. MindTree started with providing after hours support for these databases and...
[March 28, 2008, 0:02]
Databases lean on open source
Talkback Firebird supports triggers and stored procedures, full support for transactions, runs on windows and linux, you even can create embedded databases using Firebird embedded. For most small and medium size businesses these databases more than enough.
[March 9, 2004, 10:24]
Keeping Your SQL Server Databases Defragmented with Diskeeper
White Papers How can you eliminate your SQL Server databases' I/O bottlenecks, data gridlock, and bandwidth clogs? This white paper explains how fragmentation is responsible for many of these lags, as well as the after-effects of building onto a fragmented...
[November 6, 2009, 11:08]
Understanding Exchange Databases Disk Consumption
White Papers Exchange databases need disk space, once they run out of disk space they can not continue to function. This paper describes and explains the way that Exchange databases use disk space. Exchange databases are based on the JET engine, actually a...
[October 18, 2006, 1:00]
ZDNet Video Whiteboard: 24x7 Enterprise Databases
White Papers Watch this ZDNet "At the Whiteboard" presentation to hear from Forrester analyst Noel Yuhanna, who describes four technologies that can be used to provide round-the-clock availability for enterprise databases.
[March 8, 2007, 0:00]
Case Study: GHS Data Management - Improving Data Protection and Storage Reliability for Critical Databases
White Papers Discover how a healthcare management company met the challenge of improving data protection and storage reliability for its critical databases. This case study examines how GHS Data Management implemented an iSCSI SAN solution into its data center...
[November 25, 2008, 12:55]
Consolidating Oracle Databases to Linux on System z
White Papers Many organizations have growing server farms of distributed servers with Oracle databases. One can consolidate these databases to Linux on the IBM System z platform to take advantage of the virtualization capabilities.
[April 14, 2007, 1:01]
Privacy-Preserving Verification of Aggregate Queries on Outsourced Databases
White Papers The authors approach this question in the context of outsourced databases, where a data owner delegates the ability to answer users' queries to a service provider, and distrustful users may desire to verify the integrity of responses to their...
[November 7, 2007, 0:00]
Report: Some gov't databases almost certainly illegal
News A group of privacy and security experts has charted the proliferation of UK government databases and concluded that some of them could be illegal. Speaking to ZDNet UK on Friday, Anderson said 11 of the databases that are currently used or in the...
[March 23, 2009, 11:12]
Visual Basic and Databases
Downloads Visual Basic and Databases is a tutorial that provides a detailed introduction to using Visual Basic for accessing and maintaining databases. Visual Basic and Databases is presented using a combination of more than 700 pages of course notes and...
[March 2, 2006, 17:27]
