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How to Waste Money on Microsoft and Oracle Database Licensing

How to Waste Money on Microsoft and Oracle Database Licensing Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise Edition costs around 16k. Enterprise Edition of Oracle costs up to 32k. This is big..

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How to create an Oracle Database in 6 steps within Azure

Creating an Oracle Database on Windows Azure is really as simple as 6 easy steps and if you are already signed up it is basically 5! You can go from nothing to a fully functional..

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Getting the best out of your Oracle Database

Getting the best out of your Oracle Database At DSP we often find that when we are with new customers for the first time we discover that they are suffering from poor database..

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Get Better Return from your Oracle Database

Get Better Return from your Oracle Database At DSP we have found that once people have implemented their Oracle Database other than the day to day monitoring they rarely look at..

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Entering The Cloud: Approaches To Modernising Your Business

Entering The Cloud: Approaches To Modernising Your Business When it comes to updating your companies IT infrastructure, the consequences of getting it wrong can be incredibly..

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Designing SQL or Oracle Data Platform Architectures – why should I pay for this?

Designing SQL or Oracle Data Platform Architectures – why should I pay for this? Quite often here at DSP we get confused with being an Infrastructure Provider - to remind you, we..

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Are you ready to install 147 Oracle Security Patches?

Are you ready to install 147 Oracle Security Patches? Oracle have announced they are to release 147 security patches, including 36 for Java – their biggest security patch batch..

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Writing a SQL Script for "all versions" of SQL

Writing a SQL Script for “all versions” of SQL One of our Microsoft SQL Server consultants gives us a handy tip for writing a SQL script for many different versions of SQL Server.

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Why you should upgrade SQL or Oracle with Violin Memory Storage

Why you should upgrade SQL or Oracle with Violin Memory Storage Our Microsoft Practice Head at DSP talks to us about upgrading one of our clients SQL Server 2008r2 environments to..

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Why a SQL Health check can save thousands (and your job)?

Why a SQL Health check can save thousands (and your job)? Recently, DSP provided a SQL server Health check to a client that was having some timeout issues with their in house SQL..

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