Over the years you've taken command with Toad® and saved time, money and resources.  Toad for Oracle v11 delivers powerful automation, flexible workflow capabilities and deep functionality. Plus, any database professional can use it, regardless of skill level.

In "Toad for Oracle v11 - New Features and Enhancements," discover the power of this new version of Toad - and how it benefits developers, analysts and DBAs alike. You'll learn about the significant improvements in four key areas, and how these improvements will completely change the way you manage code quality and projects. Read this white paper today.

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. 

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.

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.

This paper will cover how Oracle Data Integrator, Oracle's flagship solution for data movement and data transformation for any SOA implementation, arms SOA projects that demand high performance, data-driven, powerful data loading with best-in-class capabilities, while providing real-world examples and case studies to illustrate the benefits of the combined approach.

To run secure, compressed, blazing-fast backups, you need the right tool - and that's LiteSpeed for SQL Server. In this new technical brief, discover six LiteSpeed features every DBA should know, and how LiteSpeed for SQL  Server can make every DBA's job easier. Read it 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.

In this paper we will review Oracle GoldenGate's capabilities and how it can be used to achieve zero downtime migration and consolidation to Oracle Exadata. We will provide high-level implementation steps for migration with GoldenGate and a customer case study example. You will also find a section that describes other use cases where you can leverage GoldenGate and Oracle Data Integration products for your Oracle Exadata implementations, including Data Warehouse Appliance Migration; Real-Time Data Warehouse Updates; Bulk Data Loading; Maximum Availability; OLTP; and SOA Integration.

A breakthrough application doesn't just automate processes: it innovates and alters them, often radically. It can have such a dramatic effect that it changes the way an entire organization functions. This paper by Philip Howard of Bloor Research defines the attributes of breakthrough applications and discusses the technology needed to develop them.

Key extracts from Database Trends and Applications from the December print edition focus on "Data Security and Compliance".

Oracle GoldenGate is known for its capabilities to offer real-time data integration for heterogeneous databases. This document describes the key use cases  where MySQL users can leverage Oracle GoldenGate to achieve higher performance and lower TCO.  Solutions featured include real-time data warehousing, operational reporting, and OLTP query offloading.

Learn the top 10 reasons why MySQL experts switch to SchoonerSQL and how it solves the common problems users face with MySQL.

With HostBridge for zIIP, organizations can zIIP-enable 100% of CICS application, SOA, cloud, and Web integration workloads. Neither the CICS server nor traditional CICS applications are zIIP-eligible. But CICS integration workloads are different. The core HostBridge engines and all integration scripts/Web services written with HostBridge are now 100% zIIP-eligible. Learn how the HostBridge architecture makes this happen while still delivering full functionality and performance. HostBridge for zIIP is a breakthrough for organizations integrating CICS.

A state Transportation Department cuts costs by replacing 3270 terminal emulation with Web interfaces; a truck manufacturer improves inventory management with the "handheld mainframe" - CICS apps on iPads and iPhones; a health insurer creates a rich Web 2.0 eHealth Community Portal. Using HostBridge WIRE, the Web Interface Rules Engine, organizations deliver mainframe Web interfaces to the people who are their business.

TIAA-CREF, a Fortune 100 financial services company, recognized new opportunities to grow its business, but it had to do so using its existing best-of-breed application and data structure. This meant finding more time to both process business transactions and batch - two conflicting needs. Discover how TIAA-CREF managed increasing transaction and batch volume and made more timely data updates without replacing its crucial system.

Organizations have highly diversified application portfolios, with the mainframe as important as ever. Standalone applications are now interdependent on other applications and platforms and have greater reach than ever. Decisions of whether to change or replace applications and how to release them must be carefully considered.  This Ovum paper provides the consolidated, full-picture view that enterprises require.

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.

How is your database data used? How and when can it be archived? When can it be disposed? This white paper explains how an information lifecycle management (ILM) strategy that includes database archiving, application retirement and data masking can help you enforce GRC policies.

This IDC case study highlights how Adelphia used application archiving and compliance archiving techniques to build a read-only archive in one compressed file that is 95% smaller than the original database and saves them a quarter million dollars a year.

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

This paper discusses strategies for retiring legacy applications, how to make decisions about which applications should be retired, and the seven key steps involved in legacy retirement. It also introduces the key advantages of the Informatica solution for application retirement.

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.

Now more than ever, IT organizations need to cut costs but they've exhausted the traditional options. An alternate take on cost-cutting is to find more value in existing assets. For organizations with mainframes - still in use at 90 percent of Fortune 1000 companies - this means gaining a new perspective. This white paper examines three steps to take today to make environments with mainframes work optimally for the business: Take a fresh look at current applications, infrastructure, and their uses; tune mainframe batch processing; and draw greater value from existing applications. Learn more today.

This white paper explores how to make the functionality of VSAM-reliant CICS applications valuable to web services and SOA initiatives by resolving batch limitations. Read about the business and project issues for modernizing: keep existing applications with minor changes, move to a relational database, or move to a new database and rearchitect the application.