Nanda provides a quick overview of Oracle’s newest “engineered systems” — Exadata, Exalogic, Exalytics, Big Data Appliance, Database Appliance and SPARC SuperCluster — in a concise, organized format.

Welcome to the Q1 2011 issue of SELECT Journal! Over the past few years, Oracle Corporation has successfully completed a number of key acquisitionsthat have added substantially to its product and services portfolio. This spans the spectrum from competing products such as TimesTen In-Memory DataBase (IMDB), Sleepycat’s Berkeley DB, and Innobase (one of MySQL’s key…

Welcome to the Q1 2011 issue of SELECT Journal! Over the past few years, Oracle Corporation has successfully completed a number of key acquisitionsthat have added substantially to its product and services portfolio. This spans the spectrum from competing products such as TimesTen In-Memory DataBase (IMDB), Sleepycat’s Berkeley DB, and Innobase (one of MySQL’s key…

In this crisp but powerful article, Lewis shows how you can think of ways that might makethat SQL more efficient by using a simple, two-table join.

In this crisp but powerful article, Lewis shows how you can think of ways that might makethat SQL more efficient by using a simple, two-table join.

Shukla takes a quick look at some of the aspects of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), akey technology component in modern applications. He offers developers or DBAs ways totroubleshoot and solve JVM-related performance issues.

Shukla takes a quick look at some of the aspects of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), akey technology component in modern applications. He offers developers or DBAs ways totroubleshoot and solve JVM-related performance issues.

In this article, Nanda teaches readers how to build a framework to capture the stats andwaits of an application in the context of connection pools running against RAC databases.

In this article, Nanda teaches readers how to build a framework to capture the stats andwaits of an application in the context of connection pools running against RAC databases.

Schwartz presents the results of a study of emergency downtime issues that his employerPercona, an independent MySQL support provider, was asked to resolve. The article shedslight on what types of problems can occur in MySQL-based production environments withsome potentially surprising results.