Oracle Database 10G with RAC and Reliable Datagram Sockets

A Sun BluePrints article discusses running Oracle Database 10g with Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), using Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) on the Solaris 10 OS. (Registration required to download PDF.)

Posted at 08:00AM Nov 11, 2009 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  |  Comments[0]

Sun BluePrints Article: Sun Systems for Enterprise 2.0 With Oracle

This Sun BluePrints paper describes an integrated platform of highly scalable servers, next-generation storage, and networking technologies with software and services from Sun and Oracle, for deploying Enterprise 2.0 infrastructure.

Posted at 08:00AM Oct 22, 2009 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  | 

Sun BluePrints Article on Accelerating Databases With Sun Storage Arrays

This article by Jeffrey Wright, "Accelerating Databases with the Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array," shows how storing database indexes on flash storage can improve performance. (Registration required.)

Posted at 08:00AM Oct 19, 2009 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  | 

New Products in Sun's FlashFire Portfolio for Database and Storage Performance

Two new products are out in Sun's FlashFire portfolio: Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array (solid-state flash array for accelerating database applications) and Sun Flash Accelerator F20 PCIe Card (combination of up to 96GB Flash memory with a SAS disk controller to optimize storage performance of Sun servers). A white paper shows how the flash array can accelerate databases (registration required).

Posted at 09:30AM Oct 12, 2009 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  |  Comments[3]

Technical Overview of the Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server and Database Machine

This white paper by Oracle introduces the Sun Oracle Exadata Storage Server and Sun Oracle Database Machine. The paper examines the Exadata architecture and includes information on the database server software, Exadata storage virtualization, and other topics. (The PDF download is under White Papers in the right nav of the Oracle Exadata page.)

Posted at 08:00AM Oct 09, 2009 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  | 

Provisioning MySQL Enterprise Server Using Sun Ops Center

A new case study shows how to use Sun xVM Ops Center v2.0 to provision a user application to the target servers in a data center. A Sun engineer gives an example of provisioning MySQL Enterprise Server to managed servers and configuring the database replication environment.

Posted at 08:00AM Aug 25, 2009 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  | 

Running SAP ERP 6.0 on the Sun Storage 7210 Unified Storage System

This article by Sun engineer Ulrich Conrad gives an example of running SAP ERP 6.0 on the Solaris 10 OS for x64 platforms. The scenario uses Oracle as the database platform and volumes on a Sun Storage 7210 Unified Storage System that are mounted via NFS.

Posted at 08:00AM Aug 06, 2009 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  |  Comments[1]

Backup and Recovery With Snapshots in Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System

This document shows how to perform backup and recovery operations for Oracle databases using the snapshot, clone, and rollback features on the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System.

Posted at 08:00AM Jul 24, 2009 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  |  Comments[1]

MySQL Librarian: Cherry-Picking the Best Community Content

Giuseppe Maxia has announced a new resource for developers who use MySQL: MySQL Librarian. The MySQL Librarian collects and cherry-picks the best community-generated MySQL content on the Web. Take a look.

Posted at 09:29AM Jul 23, 2009 by GD in Sun Developer Network  | 

Optimizing PostgreSQL Application Performance With Solaris Dynamic Tracing

A Sun BluePrints article describes how Solaris DTrace functionality can help with PostgreSQL database application tuning. The paper provides examples of database server operations that can be observed using DTrace probes.

Posted at 08:00AM Jul 22, 2009 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  | 

Using MySQL 5.1 Database With Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System

Sun Systems engineers describe deploying the MySQL 5.1 RDBMS on a Sun server running Microsoft Windows 2003 Server. In this scenario, a volume of a Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System is mounted using CIFS as a repository for database files.

Posted at 08:00AM Jul 17, 2009 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  | 

Follow MySQL on Twitter

Get the latest MySQL updates, including new product releases, upcoming webinars, technical articles, newly released white papers. and other useful information. Follow MySQL on Twitter.

Posted at 07:58AM Jul 16, 2009 by GD in Sun Developer Network  | 

Using Pentaho Open Source Business Intelligence Suite on Sun Platforms

Here's a sizing study for Pentaho Open Source Business Intelligence (OSBI) Suite on Sun platforms. This test used the Solaris 10 5/08 OS, MySQL database, and a Sun Fire X4540 server.

Posted at 08:00AM Jul 14, 2009 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  | 

Deploying Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Database on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System

Volumes on a Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System can be published to a server running Microsoft Windows Server. A new BigAdmin article outlines the steps for this scenario, using CIFS or iSCSI with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 databases.

Posted at 08:00AM Jul 09, 2009 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  | 

Deploying Oracle ASM Using iSCSI on Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System

This new article describes how to configure storage volumes for export as iSCSI targets, and then configure those iSCSI logical unit numbers (LUNs) at the database server to be used for Oracle ASM.

Posted at 08:00AM May 14, 2009 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  |