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Database Consolidation: Reducing Cost and Complexity

Overview

The Bottom Line: Database consolidation projects offer companies the hope of lower costs, greater ease of database administration, and the chance to improve the quality of their database technology by reducing the number of database instances and emphasizing some vendors over others.

This white paper has some of the latest information on database consolidation which is vital to anyone involved with database use within their organisation.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Oracle	File Format	PDF
Date Published	January 2008	Downloads	32
Format	White Papers
Topics	Database Management, Database Applications

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