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posted February 21, 2019, 10:51 AM by
by Jeff Stonacek, Principal Architect
I recently ran into an interesting issue with Oracle 18c Grid Infrastructure (GI). We were building several three-node clusters for a client and on one of the clusters, the ASM diskgroup used for GI was…
posted February 15, 2019, 4:30 PM by
Jim Hannan (@jim_m_hannan), Principal Architect; Nick Walter, Principal Architect; and Bob Lindquist, Director of Client Services
In this blog we take a look at some trends that we have observed in the industry over the past year, and what we believe 2019…
posted February 12, 2019, 10:55 AM by
Andy Kerber (@dbakerber), Senior Consultant
SymmetricDS (SDS) is open source software that can be used for Oracle SQL replication from one database to another. It can be configured either unidirectional or bidirectional. Bidirectional invariably means that the user will need…
posted February 8, 2019, 12:47 PM by
Jeff Klemme, Principal Architect & David Woodard, Principal Architect
There are two different builds of the Java Development Kit. Both are owned by Oracle, but one (OpenJDK) is licensed using an open-source model and the other (Oracle JDK or Oracle…
posted February 1, 2019, 6:40 PM by
Jim Hannan (@jim_m_hannan), Principal Architect
Is this blog, we have gathered some of our favorite blogs and tools related to benchmarking and performance troubleshooting. Feel free to bookmark this blog, as we will be updating it as we author new…
posted January 25, 2019, 3:43 PM by
Nick Walter, Principal Architect
Oracle Security Best Practices in EC2 and RDS for the DBA
Many House of Brick customers who I speak to are very excited about the possibilities of running Oracle in AWS, either on EC2 or leveraging the…
posted January 11, 2019, 12:55 PM by
Phil Ekins (@SQLPhilUK), Principal Architect
At House of Brick we regularly provide license based consulting across the SQL Server and Oracle database stacks. We have numerous blogs on the Oracle stack, but today we will be talking about SQL Server…
posted January 7, 2019, 12:34 PM by
Andy Kerber (@dbakerber), Senior Consultant
Renaming an Oracle Grid Infrastructure home is not something that needs to be done often, but I recently had occasion to change the name of a GI home without upgrading it. Oracle documentation includes instructions…
posted December 19, 2018, 1:58 PM by
by Jeff Stonacek, Principal Architect
Overview
Oracle licensing is a very complex topic. To further complicate things, different metrics have been used to license core technology products (Database and Middleware) throughout the years. The most common metrics currently in use are…
posted December 16, 2018, 5:05 PM by
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), CTO & Chief Evangelist
See my 12/15/17 blog post The Sound of Silence: Celebrating the Two Year Anniversary of the Dismissal of Mars v. Oracle.
Did anyone honestly think anything was going to change? Did anyone honestly think…