View this presentation transcript to learn more about how high-powered analytics is pushing organizations further into an area with specialized databases. Find out more about why companies continue to migrate from general databases to more analytic platforms by reading this resource now. 

The second wave of virtualization will help many businesses extend the benefits of virtualization to additional applications and databases. Find out how self-managing, “zero-touch” infrastructure combined with vSphere virtualization and ftServer systems can help you immediately leverage the benefits of Stage 2 virtualization. 

Find out how Embarcadero's DB Optimizer™ can help you to quickly discover and fix problematic SQL statements that can cause performance bottlenecks in your database. DB Optimizer™ gives you the flexibility of using a single easy-to-use IDE to test, profile and tune SQL. 

Watch this video to find out why Toad for Oracle is the best solution for database professionals. Find out more about how it combines the functionality available with specialized editions built for a job function. It also offers accured code development and a simpler approach to administration. 

The Kognitio Technology and Data Center has over a hundred man-years of development experience and is unique in its latest development of Kognitio WX2, a high performance, analytical database that serves as a robust data warehouse platform. 

Tune into this podcast to learn more about the role of the database running beneath the software.  Are some databases better than others and how does the database beneath the software change the performance? Listen now to get answers to these important questions. 

IBM Data Studio provides an integrated, modular environment for productive administration of DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows, and collaborative database development tools for DB2, Informix, Oracle, and Sybase. View this page to get an overview of its components and download a trial of Data Studio with a free database, DB2 Express-C. 

This blog post analyzes Oracle's claims about its latest data warehouse technology. Discover the key steps required to implement this appliance and find out how this platform compares to other market offerings. 

This is a developerWorks article. This article summarizes the new pureXML capabilities, explains how they can be used, and discusses sample application scenarios. 

Conducted by the research firm ORC International, this study found that performing common database management tasks for Oracle Database 11g R2 took less time and fewer resources than performing the same tasks for DB2 Enterprise 9.7. Although funded by Oracle, the study was independently conducted by ORC. 

According to Jonathan Lewis, there is a basic strategy to writing efficient SQL, but it requires knowledge of the data, the metadata, and the intent of the query. Kyle Hailey, though, will discuss his own approach to Visual SQL Tuning (VST) with some ringside support from DB Optimizer XE. Be sure to check out this exciting debate! 

Read this data sheet to learn about one vendor that offers BI tools, applications, databases, and server and storage platforms to provide open and integrated BI capabilities.