posted July 31, 2015, 11:32 AM by
Jeff Stonacek, Principal Architect
Unfortunately, many of our clients are surprised to find they are in fact using database features like Advance Compression. Features like this are easy to enable and the Oracle software does little to warn you that…
posted July 24, 2015, 4:23 PM by
Joe Grant (@dba_jedi), Principal Architect
One of the most asked questions concerning running Oracle Databases in a virtualized environment is:
“How do we present the fastest storage possible?”
It is not always necessary to present the fastest storage available, but rather to…
posted July 17, 2015, 11:27 AM by
Jeff Stonacek, Principal Architect
Overview
In part one of this post, we described the high level concept of using Oracle’s new cross platform incremental backup along with transportable tablespaces. These tools allow a DBA to perform cross platform transportable tablespace operations…
posted July 12, 2015, 10:37 PM by
Dave Welch, CTO and Chief Evangelist
A review of Gartner’s November 24, 2014 “Oracle’s Licensing Policy for Server Virtualization Is a Substantial Audit Risk” Paper.
The paper, document G00271412, was $195 when originally published. It was free with registration as of…