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Inside Spyware: A Guide to Finding, Removing, and Preventing Online Pests
Your organization's computers are possibly being used to send spam, harvest e-mail addresses, make purchases on stolen credit cards or take part in denial of service attacks. Learn how to indentify, avoid, and remove malware from computers and keep your network and machines safe. »
Tips for Selecting Software Vendors IT managers need a proven, steadfast process for sifting through the hundreds of choices available for each enterprise software market segment. There are a series of steps for ensuring a result that will survive the intense, long-term scrutiny this level of investment will certainly attract. »
Storage Basics: A Guide to the World of Storage Technology Regardless of industry, size, or age, businesses are awash in more data than ever before. Federal regulations require that data be stored, protected, and retrievable for a certain amount of time. Storage is also a growing area in IT, which means employment opportunities exist now, and should exist for some time.
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Building Your Own IP PBX
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Oracle Database 11g: Automatic SQL Tuning9/26 This article delves into a new Oracle Database 11g feature that
significantly extends this powerful 10g feature by providing the ability to
implement improved execution plans automatically within DBA-specified
boundaries.
Tuning an Oracle Procedure9/20 Join JP Vijaykumar as he tunes a procedure that is running for eight hours, bringing the run time of the procedure down to 37 minutes.
Troubleshooting ASM problems on VMware ESX 3.x9/18 Several errors may be encountered when setting up ESX 3.x on Oracle Rac. This
article covers some of those errors and how to fix them.
Oracle’s Transportable Automatic Workload Repository9/13 Oracles Automatic Workload Repository provides a whole new way of
gathering, comparing and storing statistics. Read on to learn how AWR
differs from the old statspack reports.
Making Database Administration Easier with Freeware9/12 Cygwin, an OpenSSH application, helps relieve the stress of more commonly seen administration problems, including not being
able to get a GUI tool (e.g., Oracle Universal Installer) to display and not being able to have it display at the correct location.
Using Orion Calibration to check I/O numbers9/06 Orion is an I/O metrics testing tool, designed specifically to simulate the I/O workload before installing Oracle RAC on the hardware. It is ideal for capacity planning and checking DAS, SAN or NAS storage. Read on to learn more.
Product Review: HyperBac for Oracle8/29 A relatively new product called HyperBac provides an excellent alternative to Oracle 10gR2 compressed backupset methodology without the need to modify any RMAN backup, restoration, and recovery scripts. This article provides an overview of HyperBac features that nicely complement Oracle 10gR2's enhancements to database backups and exports.
Oracle: Synonyms’ Synonyms8/23 Oracle restricts the length of object names (tables, columns, views, procedures) to 30 characters, but does not impose the 30
characters length restriction on synonym names. Read on to learn how to create synonym
names of any length.
Clearing Alerts in Enterprise Manager8/22 Using Oracle Enterprise Manager can be one of the most frustrating experiences in Oracle because of OEM’s non-intuitive, disjointed interface and OEM’s inability to clean up after itself. Follow along with Steve Callan as he delves into the mystery of how to clear alerts in Enterprise Manager.
Clustering Oracle RAC Virtual Machines across physical and ESX hosts8/16 Part 4 of this series examines various possibilities for building clusters across several physical and ESX hosts
and takes a quick look at upgrading clustered Virtual Machines in all the three scenarios.
Oracle, MySQL and PostgreSQL feature comparison – Part 18/09 Oracle, MySQL and PostgreSQL obviously have a lot of features, and different solutions for the same problems.
This article looks at the major features, such as stored procedures, views, snapshots, table datatypes, transactions, and so on, to discover which ones do what you need.
Learning Oracle by the Numbers8/08 It's hard enough mastering Oracle 10g, let alone trying to devote time to learning the nuances of an older version. Steven Callan offers advice on how to overcome a step or two backwards with respect to Oracle.
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