Oracle Disk I/O Tuning: Disk I/O Performance and Optimization for Oracle Databases (Oracle In-Focus)
Database Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
Are your database servers not performing well? Have you discovered two or more virtual servers running on the same node? Shailesh Khanal shows you how to generate a status report for multiple database servers and services, schedule it to run automatically and send it out via email.
Mark Rittman's Oracle Weblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
If you had attended our training days event or one of our Open World sessions, you will have noticed that we had covered the various aspects of integration between Essbase and relational sources using BI EE. The presentations are available here. One of the scenarios that we had not covered was the ability to display [...]
QNX (Free subscription) | yesterday
Database security is the single biggest concern with today's Web-based applications. Without control, you risk exposing sensitive information about your company or, worse yet, your valuable customers. In this article, learn about security measures you can take to protect your PostgreSQL database. Be sure to download the sample code listings used in this article.
Cnet (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
The gurus said that the community would change the way the industry develops and sells software. The gurus were wrong.
Cnet (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
The professional networking site now lets developers access its API to import LinkedIn features into external sites.
Database Journal (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
During the past few weeks, we've been getting better acquainted with XML support in MySQL. This article finishes the series by talking about how to manipulate XML data using the XPath, which is a language for navigating and querying XML documents.
ZD Net (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Microsoft's Windows Azure and SQL Azure address part of organizations requirements for an open, standards based platform that can support local, private and public clouds. by Dan Kusnetzky
Database Journal (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Learn how to set up and control automatic failover using the Fast-Start Failover Observer, so that DBA intervention is no longer required during a disaster recovery scenario.
Database Journal (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Today's article continues to explore XML support in MySQL. Specifically, we'll look at a nicer way to format our resultset. We'll also discuss how to retrieve all of the records from the XML document, using a stored procedure.
Cnet (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The cloud computing specialist announces its Salesforce Chatter service to build social networking services into its customers' business operations starting in 2010.
Database Journal (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
BI Architect Bill Pearson continues his introduction to Partitions in Analysis Services 2008 with a discussion of Partition planning, providing hands-on exposure to settings related to each potential consideration.
Mark Rittman's Oracle Weblog (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
We’re organizing a drinks reception at the Pitcher and Piano Bar on the Tuesday evening of the UKOUG Tech and EBS Conference, which is open to all BI & DW delegates, speakers and partners who’d like to come along. We’ll be there from 6pm to 9pm on Tuesday, 1st December, and we thought it’d be [...]
Cnet (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Chipmaker says it has invested in seven new companies through its global investment arm.
Mark Rittman's Oracle Weblog (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
One intriguing or not-so obvious feature of BI EE is the way it does its Sub-Totals & Pivot Table calculations. As with any reporting tool, we expect almost every part of a report to be pushed back to the database in the form of native SQL. But there are certain cases wherein we cannot push [...]
Database Journal (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Connection to an Oracle database, using operating system authentication has come under fire for providing loopholes in security. You be the judge.
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