Oracle Database 11g: Adaptive Cursor Sharing9/30 This article discusses a new Oracle Database 11gR1 feature - Adaptive Cursor Sharing - and illustrates how to use it in practical situations to limit hard parsing of SQL statements with bind variables while increasing the relative execution efficiency of those statements.
SQL Server 2008 Data Collections and the Management Data Warehouse9/29 Data Collections are a great tool that allows DBAs to gather different statistics, and the Management Data Warehouse (MDW) is the repository for storing those statistics. This article offers an overview of Data Collections and how to configure the MDW.
The Missing Sync9/25 This article offers an overview of what is needed in a robust data synchronization system.
Intro to Databases By Bill Hatfield
Published July 2, 2008
New to databases? Start by learning the basic terminology.
Access Database By Helen Bradley
Published June 2, 2008
Learn how to create a database as well as a report and query to go along with it.
How to Use Queries By Helen Bradley
Published June 2, 2008
Learn how to extract information from your Microsoft Access database to answer typical business questions and analyze your data in new ways.
Data Binding to Forms Made Simple in .Net 2.0 By Wei-Meng Lee
Published June 4, 2008
Creating a form that displays formatted information from a database is a matter of a few easy steps in .NET 2.0 using Visual Studio 2005
Microsoft's Lineup of SQL Server Related Webcasts for October 20089/30 Four new webcasts are scheduled for October, covering such topics as "Add Business Intelligence to Service Oriented Architecture Applications", "Addressing Compliance with SQL Server 2008" and more.
Oracle DBAs cite lack of security measures9/30 Increasingly complex database environments are making it difficult for database administrators to secure systems and protect against a data breach, according to a new survey.
Accessing Your MySQL Database from the Web with PHP9/30 In this chapter, learn how to access a database from the Web using PHP, read from and write to the database, and filter potentially troublesome input data.
HP Oracle Database Machine (Oracle Corp) Combined hardware (from HP) and software (from Oracle) platform is especially performance tuned for data warehousing in large Enterprises. Supports a potential performance bandwidth of up to 14 GB/sec.
FortiDB (Fortinet, Inc) Vulnerability assessment platform especially targeted to DBs, including Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Sybase. Available in appliance and software flavors.
Reports with summary When you use an ORDER BY clause in your SQL SELECT command, rows with the same value in the ordered column (or expression) are displayed together in your output. The purpose of these scripts is to provide a solution for suppressing duplicate values and computing summary lines.
