This article explores ways in which small and mid-sized businesses can improve the performance of their databases - and their businesses - by upgrading to SQL Server 2008. 

Find out how 3,637 marketers responded to tough questions about their open, click and conversion rates. Also, find out which tests work best, what's not working, list growth strategies and how email budgets are changing for 2007. Invite your entire team to attend – attendance for this Webcast is free! 

Find out what 1,038 B2B marketers revealed about what works for lead generation and nurturing tactics. Invite your entire team to view this free Webcast and learn about B2B email, search marketing and surprising Webcast and white paper marketing statistics. 

If you're a small or mid-sized business thinking about virtualization, particularly in the world of Microsoft, it makes sense to upgrade your database servers as well. This article explains why to upgrade and provides several examples of companies that have successfully made the move. 

This paper describes the Oracle Optimized Solution for Oracle Secure Backup. The solution includes optimized architectures for deploying Oracle Secure Backup software to provide data protection for Oracle engineered systems, including Oracle Exadata, SPARC SuperCluster, and Oracle Optimized Solutions. 

Find out what 1,900 B2B marketers in software, hardware and technology services industries revealed about what works for lead generation. Supplement this report with the webinar titled "KnowledgeStorm Webinars: Business Technology Marketing Benchmarks: 2006-2007 Data and Trends" and learn about B2B e-mail and search engine marketing strategies. 

Reliability and availability, data protection, performance, and scalability are all essential characteristics of a database management system. This paper looks at each one of those characteristics in detail and offers an implementation guide for SMBs that require a highly reliable database environment. 

Improving the overall quality of your company’s decision-making process results also improves the overall effectiveness of your business. This paper explains how reporting will help your organization make better decisions, and how on-demand reporting allows you to accomplish this task in a fast, cost-effective, and easy-to use manner. 

Databases hold a wealth of important information but without proper upkeep it is worthless. Read this white paper to learn how easy it is to prevent huge database errors with data cleansing processes. 

This e-guide provides two articles from our award-winning editorial team on how to overcome data governance program issues and best practices for applying on-going data governance tactics. 

This document is designed to help firms understand their data conversion options. It outlines what data is critical and must be converted for compliance purposes and business continuity, what data is not critical, the relationship between data conversion and reporting, and what to look for in a new technology provider relative to data conversion. 

This report from Knowledge Peers and Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC), reveals what leaders of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses (SMBs) think of IT – its strategic value, its potential, and the changing way in which it is being used in their organisations.