Over the years you've taken command with Toad® and saved time, money and resources.  Toad for Oracle v11.5 delivers powerful automation, flexible workflow, customization capabilities and the deepest functionality available. Regardless of how long you've been working with Oracle, Toad will improve your productivity.
 
In "Toad for Oracle v11.5 - New Features and Enhancements," discover the power of this new Toad version - and how it gives you more control over Oracle than ever before. Learn about the significant improvements over each edition of Toad, and how it better manages code quality, workspaces and projects. You'll also see how to explore user communities like Toad World with in-product integration. Read this tech brief today.

MySQL is one of the most popular databases used today because it is inexpensive & flexible, but can it scale?  This white paper will discuss how you can dynamically manage and scale your MySQL database.  ScaleBase middleware provides an abstraction layer with a single point of management for your MySQL environment; removing complexity, delivering real-time elasticity and increasing availability - all without requiring any changes to the existing infrastructure.

Is a NoSQL database the right technology for your project? NoSQL databases are being used for an increasing number of today's interactive web applications and this whitepaper is an essential read to understand the context underlying today's NoSQL trend, and what to look for when selecting a NoSQL database for your project.

In this white paper Revelation Software introduces MultiValue developers to jQuery and jQuery Mobile.  jQuery Mobile is designed to allow developers to code standard HTML and javascript (and now HTML5), and then generate device- and platform- specific output through the plugin and function libraries. Download Today.

To compete and lead in today's 24x7x365 economy, enterprises must maintain round-the-clock data center and database operations. However, native database solutions are limited: they're hard to use, take excessive time to administer and can't deliver up-to-the minute backup and restore capabilities. 

IT management has turned to specialized third-party solutions that offer rapid and effective backup and restore capabilities. Through automation and backup/restore agility, these solutions are saving companies money and time. 

In this Quest Software white paper, discover in-depth information about the five key benefits that a third-party solution offers: savings, speed, security, stability, and simplicity.

An indispensible resource for the practicing DBA and DBA manager, this paper quickly and effectively communicates to the business manager as well.

In this white paper published by The Bloor Group, industry expert Robin Bloor examines the evolution of ETL from its inception to the next generation of ETL tools, known as ETL 2.0. The paper analyzes the stresses put on the first generation of ETL products and the limitations of these ETL tools to deal with the challenges of Big Data, as well as the characteristics and benefits of ETL 2.0 to meet the strategic needs of the business and IT organizations.

Data management has reached another inflection point. A new breed of applications is pushing traditional, mostly relational database management solutions (RDBMS) beyond their limits, driven by an ever-growing mountain of data, the consumerism of IT, the hunger for smarter applications and more. This whitepaper will touch on: why NoSQL matters in the context of Java, Big Data and JPA, the pitfalls of traditional object to relational JPA products, and how you can achieve maximum performance for you Big Data application and more.

Can you actually save more money using Toad® rather than SQL Developer - a free product? The answer is "yes!" In this surprising Quest technical brief, learn how Toad's revolutionary new features save you time and money while dramatically increasing your productivity. Read the white paper today.

There's a reason why over 2 million database professionals trust Toad every single day, but if you thought Toad was powerful before, wait until you try Toad for Oracle v11. In "The Top 11 Features of Toad for Oracle v11, a Quest Software on-demand video, see how this new version of Toad for Oracle will completely change the way you manage code quality and projects. You'll learn about Toad's deep functionality, extensive automation, flexible workflow and much, much more. 

In this new white paper from Quest Software, discover how event notifications and extended events can help you proactively monitor your databases. You'll see how notifications can automate issue response, how events give you the power to drill down into SQL Server, and much more.

Don't react to SQL Server environment issues - be proactive and stay ahead of the problems! Read this white paper today.

LiteSpeed for SQL Server is the backup solution that gets the most out of your current investments - while pushing performance to the max. In this case study, read about Microsoft's Enterprise Application Services Group, and how they turned to LiteSpeed for backups that run four times faster while increasing performance. Then, see how LiteSpeed reduced the size of their SAP database backups, allowing them to leverage their current storage hardware. Read this case study today.

SQL Server performance management requires serious time and energy. In this new white paper by Kevin Kline, discover detailed guidance on the issues you can relate to-from cache trashing to bad T-SQl -  that can return to haunt your applications. See how to maximize database scalability and efficiency with ease. Read the white paper today.

Designed by database visionary Michael Stonebraker, VoltDB is a "NewSQL" open source RDBMS capable of scaling to millions of ACID transactions per second.  This white paper explains VoltDB's core architectural concepts - main memory architecture, data partitioning and scaling, high availability, durability and interoperability.  It also covers VoltDB's application programming model, and provides helpful resources to assist DBMS evaluators.

Hadoop is an open-source framework for managing and manipulating massive volumes of data. VoltDB is a transactional database for managing ultra-high velocity data. Big Data applications often require both: real-time transaction processing and analytics, and archival/analysis of deep historical data. VoltDB's streaming export environment lets you deliver data to Hadoop on the fly, providing you with an integrated solution for fast and deep data management.  This white paper explains how to create a powerful Big Data infrastructure.

Got Agile BI?  If not, then you'll want to learn how you can deploy virtual data marts, virtual sandboxing, interactive prototyping, self-service and operational reporting to deliver the insights your business requires. See how IT at Qualcomm and Northern Trust became heroes by accelerated BI projects by 2X.

Oracle GoldenGate is used by major Fortune 500 companies and other industry leaders worldwide to support mission-critical systems for real-time database synchronization to support mission-critical systems to achieve maximum availability and real-time data integration in heterogeneous environments. Written for business project owners, key stakeholders, and the entire IT organization, this white paper provides a detailed look at Oracle GoldenGate 11g, its underlying technology architecture and how it works with HP NonStop Server Databases.

Oracle GoldenGate is used by major Fortune 500 companies and other industry leaders worldwide for real-time database synchronization to support mission-critical systems to achieve maximum availability and real-time integration in heterogeneous environments. Written for business project owners, key stakeholders, and the entire IT organization, this white paper provides a detailed look at Oracle GoldenGate 11g, its underlying technology architecture and how it works with Microsoft SQL Server Database.

The rise of Big Data is challenging many long-held assumptions about the way data is organized, managed, ingested, and digested. However, for many organizations, Big Data is still a new frontier that they have only begun to explore. "Many organizations leave their data to pile up; they are aware of it as a resource but haven't analyzed it. They don't know what's useful and what's worthless." This fourteen-page section from the March edition of Database Trends and Applications is an invaluable resource that provides multiple perspectives on the chief challenges our readers face and the solutions that will enable organizations to begin tapping into the power of Big Data assets.

As data virtualization technology matures, adoption also matures and expands across multiple industries and enterprise organizations.  This white paper introduces the five usage patterns of data virtualization most frequently deployed, the challenges that they address and the technology solution that has been successfully deployed to address them.

Big Data presents new opportunities to benefit from the proven relationship between the use of analytics and business performance. This white paper introduces how a data virtualization technology platform can provide an agile, high performance approach to overcome the complexity and challenges of disparate data silos, providing enterprise analytics using both Big Data and traditional enterprise data.

Business Intelligence (BI) for SAP alone is hard.  But when you also want to integrate non-SAP data into your analysis, the task is monumental. It can be done.  Data virtualization is the key to simplifying this daunting challenge. Download this white paper from Germany's leading BI analyst firm, BARC, to learn how.

Big Data is increasing the popularity and applicability of NoSQL. The challenge: understanding and integrating disparate NoSQL data stores distributed across your enterprise. Download this white paper to learn about the primary types of NoSQL stores and how to use data virtualization to integrate them.

Puzzled by data virtualization's evolving capabilities and vendor landscape? In an environment of ever evolving needs and solutions, businesses and government agencies must select the right data virtualization offering to meet their needs. Make the right choice for your needs using a maturity model that systematically assesses data virtualization offerings.  Download this white paper to learn how.

Are your business users frustrated by a large backlog of data warehouse projects?  Want to speed things up?  Learn the eight proven ways data virtualization can extend your data warehouse to:

- Fulfill new BI needs faster

- Leverage prior data warehousing investments

- Reduce data warehouse total cost of ownership

Onsystex is changing the way the world views MultiValue applications by increasing the value of those critical business applications that have provided organizations with a competitive edge for many years. As an alternative to re-engineering or replacing proven, functional and stable applications, Onsystex provides the tools and services to allow these applications to be executed on recognized, standard relational databases such as Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL, integrated with standard business intelligence (BI) tools, and interfaced with the latest Internet technologies in languages such as .NET and JAVA.