Andy Kerber (@dbakerber), Senior Consultant
I ran into an interesting problem at one of our customer sites the other day. I didn’t get the chance to really track the source of the original problem, which was that the Oracle GUI…
Michael Stone (@HoBMStone), Lead Architect and CIO
Since June of 2014, with the first GA release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) v7, Extensible File System (XFS) has been the default file system. According to Wikipedia’s comparison of filesystems, XFS…
Nick Walter, Principal Architect
I recently worked with a client who was using AWS RDS Oracle for the first time. They, like a lot of organizations familiar with managing Oracle databases in on-premises environment, had a fairly robust backup methodology…
Nathan Biggs (@nathanbiggs), CEO
Over the past few years, House of Brick has had the privilege of working with hundreds of clients around the world to help them get a handle on their Oracle and SQL Server licensing challenges. While…
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), CTO & Chief Evangelist
The City of Sunrise (Florida) Firefighters Pension Fund sued Oracle on August 10, 2018 alleging Oracle misled investors on cloud sales growth.
Déjà vu? The first class action alleging Oracle’s stock price manipulation through…
by Phil Ekins (@SQLPhilUK), Principal Architect
In our prior posts in this series we discussed Linux basics and provided a how to for installing Linux. This post picks up the story from that point, with us prepping our server for…
Dave Welch, CTO and Chief Evangelist House of Brick Technologies & Pam Fulmer, Partner and Co-founder, Fulmer Ware LLP
Fulmer Ware LLP and House of Brick work together frequently to defend customers when they are facing software audits from Oracle…
Nathan Biggs (@nathanbiggs), CEO
Yesterday, I had the privilege of being invited to participate in a webinar offered by the VMware Cloud on AWS team. It has been an exciting opportunity to work with VMware and AWS, as this offering…
Nathan Biggs (@nathanbiggs), CEO
In 2006, House of Brick pioneered the use of virtualization technology for enterprise-class Oracle applications when we helped one of the largest restaurant chains in the U.S. deploy their Oracle E-Business Suite on VMware. That helped…
Andy Kerber (@dbakerber), Senior Consultant
In this blog I will examine the effects ‘setall’ and ‘none’ on the Oracle initialization parameter filesystemio_options. This setting is used to set I/O parameters for the Oracle database when the data files are stored…
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