An Edison Group Comparative Management Costs Study
A recent study conducted by the Edison Group titled “Comparative Management Costs Study—Oracle Database 11g vs. IBM DB2 Enterprise 9.5″ quantifies how Oracle widens the manageability lead against IBM. Points made in the 78-page report: 43% annual savings in database management; typical administrative functions are 40% faster; 49% fewer steps for the same set of standard RDBMS tasks; and save up to $35,155 per year per DBA.
Get the Latest Partitioning Techniques, Learn About Latest Enhancements
Oracle Partitioning can improve the performance, manageability, and availability for applications, the company asserts. Part of the Oracle Database, Oracle Partitioning is the subject of a white paper that discusses the latest partitioning techniques, enhanced scalability, and extended manageability capabilities now available in the latest Oracle Database 11g Release 2.
Overview of New Features, Issues to Consider Before Making the Move
Internet.com is offering an eBook on the Oracle Database 11g which highlights the latest features of the solution along with an overview of the issues to consider when making a database migration. Registration is required to download the eBook, which also comes with the “Oracle Database 11g Product Family Guide” for an overview of the Oracle Database family of products.
Sometimes Oracle Database Just Does It Better than SQL
Handling application changes of state is a capability that Oracle Database outshines SQL at, contends Bruce Hopkins in his Sun Developer Network article “Creating High-Performance Database Applications with Java Triggers and the Oracle Database.” What Hopkins offers here is a means for developers to completely eliminate the necessity for polling databases for state changes by using Java triggers in the Oracle database that handle state changes by themselves.
StubHub, an eBay affiliate, and the world’s largest ticket marketplace, upgraded a mission-critical, online transaction processing (OLTP) database from Oracle 9i Real Application Clusters (RAC) to Oracle 10g RAC. To take advantage of high scalability and mainframe-class performance, StubHub also moved the database from a 32-bit platform to a 64-bit platform with Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000 servers running the Solaris 10 Operating System.
The availability of Oracle Database 11g Release 2 has Christopher Jones blogging about the new features useful for PHP OCI8 applications. They include enhancements that let online production applications be upgraded with minimal downtime, and features that improve existing important capabilities introduced in Oracle 11g Release 1, such as DRCP connection pooling and the Client Query Result Cache.
Eight-processor World Record Set with Four Sun Blade X6270 Module Nodes
The Oracle Database garnered another honor with the world record it set on the SAP Sales and Distribution-Parallel Standard Application Benchmark with the SAP Enhancement Package 4 for ERP 6.0 (Unicode). Set on a cluster of four-node Sun Blade X6270 server module nodes, each with two Intel Xeon x5570 quad-core 2.93 GHz processors and running the Solaris 10 OS, the performance was near linear in scalability.
