Oracle Data Guard in Oracle Database 10g Disaster Recovery for the Enterprise
[ Source: Oracle ]
January 2008-
Oracle Data Guard is a comprehensive data protection, disaster recovery and high availability solution for the enterprise. It offers a flexible and easy-to-manage framework that addresses both planned and unplanned outages. Physical and logical standby databases complement each other and can be maintained simultaneously providing high-value data protection, while offloading overhead from primary databases. The various data protection modes provide flexibility to adapt to various protection, performance and infrastructure requirements. The Data Guard Broker in ....
Cleaning Up PL/SQL Practices
[ Source: Oracle ]
January 2008-
This list for developer is completely overwhelming, because it can be hard to remember all the best practices, challenging to implement them, and perplexing to determine whether or not the developers on a team are actually complying with the best practices. This paper published by Oracle explores ways to apply a prioritized list of best practices, from a practical standpoint, and then demonstrates some techniques for automated analysis of code for compliance with a wide ....
VERITAS DBMS Technical Brief: Using Oracle DBMS_SESSION and DBMS_APPPLICATION_INFO Built-In Packages
[ Source: Symantec ]
January 2008-
This paper from Symantec explains that each new release of Oracle adds to the already rich set of built-in packages as a standard part of PL/SQL functionality. DBAs and developers can benefit greatly from using packages, but a lack of time or other job pressures often prevents them from exploring the value and employing packages on a regular basis. The Oracle PL/SQL built-in packages (a.k.a. the DBMS packages) are a virtual treasure trove of useful ....
Parallel Execution with Oracle Database 10g Release 2
[ Source: Oracle ]
January 2008-
Parallel execution is one of the fundamental database technologies that enable organizations to manage and access terabytes of data. This paper discusses Oracle Database 10g parallel execution architecture and shows its superiority over alternative architectures for real world applications. It also talks about the seamless integration of Oracle’s parallel execution component with other, business-critical components, such as Oracle Real Application Clusters. Parallel execution is the capability that addresses this challenge. The more effectively the database ....
Analyzing Snort Data With the Basic Analysis and Security Engine (BASE)
[ Source: Sun Microsystems ]
January 2008-
BASE is written in the PHP programming language and displays information from a database in a user friendly web front end. BASE allows for the easy management of alert data. The administrator can categorize data into alert groups, delete false positives or previously handled alerts, and archive and export alert data to an email address for administrative notification or further processing. Support for user logins and roles, allowing an administrator to control what is seen ....
Oracle10g RAC: Installation on Solaris 9 With Oracle10g CRS and a Network Appliance Filer
[ Source: NetApp ]
January 2008-
This white paper from Network Appliance is a technical report which covers the installation of NetApp filers and enterprise-class Sun Microsystems SPARC architecture - based servers using the Solaris 9 operating system running the Oracle10g Real Application Clusters (10gR1, 10gR2 RAC) Database using Oracle10g Cluster Ready Services (CRS). This is a certified configuration, and, as such, the components presented in this paper must be used in the same combination to gain support from all parties ....
PHPfest Tutorial: Oracle Database 10g Express Edition and Zend Core for Oracle
[ Source: Oracle ]
January 2008-
Oracle Database XE is an entry-level, small footprint starter database. It is free to download, develop, and deploy, and one can freely distribute it with the applications. There are no database licensing costs. Oracle Database XE has a browser-based management interface, Oracle Application Express. Support is provided through an OTN discussion forum via peers and product experts. The installation procedure on the Oracle Database Developer CD for Linux x86 differs slightly to the procedure below. ....
Migrating From Business Objects Crystal Reports to SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services
[ Source: Microsoft ]
January 2008-
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services (SSRS) is the emerging solution of choice for businesses requiring enterprise reporting capabilities and competes directly with top-tier reporting solutions like Crystal Reports. Because SSRS ships with SQL Server 2005, companies can fully leverage their investment in SQL Server and benefit from the deep integration with the other areas of the product. Some of the latest enhancements to Reporting Services, including an ad-hoc report designer called Report Builder, bring ....
DB2: Cloning a Database Using NetApp FlexClone Technology
[ Source: NetApp ]
January 2008-
Database cloning is process by which the user can create an exact copy of a DB2 database, either by physically copying the data or by performing what is known as a redirected restore. Database cloning is performed frequently by database administrators to provide near-production data for various business needs such as application development, QA testing, and report generation. Traditional methods of cloning a database pose various challenges, including system downtime and degraded system performance during ....
Grails on Oracle for Java Developers
[ Source: Oracle ]
January 2008-
The ""Coding by convention"" paradigm that is the driver of Ruby on Rails has been leveraged to develop a new framework: Grails. Grails uses Groovy as the underlying language, so it runs on a JVM and can leverage any existing Java API. Java developer will find it very interesting to use this framework to accelerate the development of Web applications. For those who are not yet a Java developer but need to develop and deploy ....