Jonas Mason, Senior Consultant
In my last blog, Diagnostic and Tuning Pack Features: SQL Tuning Sets, I covered why an organization might be a candidate for Diagnostic and Tuning Pack features and what kind of value was gained from using…
Jonas Mason, Senior Consultant
In prior blog posts I have covered 1) performing a general performance assessment of an Oracle instance, 2) troubleshooting Oracle performance, and 3) how a company’s culture that can contribute to poor Oracle performance.
In this series…
John McDougald, Senior Consultant
The Database is Not Working
You’ve undoubtedly heard the buzz about DevOps, the new software design lifecycle (SDLC) paradigm that combines agile development with agile infrastructure – placing infrastructure specifications, configuration, and settings into code and building…
It looks like we aren’t the only ones who are disappointed and frustrated with Oracle’s practices these days. We encourage you to check out a recent blog by Chad Sakac where he describes why he’s mad and not going…
by Chris Vacanti, Senior Consultant
The worst disaster recovery solution is the one you think works.
For most of us in the IT industry, disaster recovery becomes a second part-time job we have to do some time during our full-time job….
Jim Hannan (@HoBHannan), Principal Architect
We are very fond of this picture at House of Brick, as it speaks to the common misconception that Disaster Recovery (DR) is just the button you hit, and then magically your business is up…
by Jeff Stonacek, Principal Architect
House of Brick Technologies routinely deals with our customers’ opportunities regarding Oracle licensing. Occasionally, a little known licensing metric called Universal Power Units (UPU) rears its ugly head. The reason there is little known about…
Michael Stone (@HoBMStone), Lead Architect and CIO
VM Strategies
Being virtualized brings some intriguing new possibilities to the table in terms of database backup, recovery, and cloning. Below we will explore the surface of those capabilities and implications.
Snapshot / Stun Issues
Most…
Jim Hannan (@HoBHannan), Principal Architect
In part 1 of this blog we covered real time, baseline, and health check tools for troubleshooting middleware performance issues. In this part, we will take a look specifically at troubleshooting Java on middleware. Effectively…
Jim Hannan (@HoBHannan), Principal Architect
I first started working with Oracle as Unix/Network administrator. Our DBA left for another job and I inherited the database stack. It was supporting an Oracle E-Business stack. Luckily, I worked with Oracle developers that…
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