Nathan Biggs (@nathanbiggs), CEO
With Oracle’s end of fiscal year rapidly approaching, many organizations are finding themselves mired in an audit. If you are one of these “lucky” targets of Oracle’s attention, you have likely learned that an audit from…
by Joe Grant (@dba_jedi), Principal Architect
I recently went to one of my most referenced blog articles, only to find that it had been deleted. It was for installing the TWM windows manager on Red Hat 7 based distributions, like…
Andy Kerber (@dbakerber), Senior Consultant
Gathering statistics for the Oracle database is a common task for DBAs. Quite often, an experienced DBA will discover that the standard Oracle method of gathering statistics skips tables that need to be analyzed frequently…
by Jeff Stonacek, Principal Architect
In a recent migration activity using Oracle Data Pump, we ran into problems with table permissions on the target database. After working with the software vendor and investigating the issues, it was determined that the…
Jim Hannan (@jim_m_hannan), Principal Architect
By Jim Hannan, Principal Architect
I have been given the opportunity to speak at both the Infotec and IOUG Collaborate conferences this year. I am very excited to continue to present on the topic of Cloud….
Nathan Biggs (@nathanbiggs), CEO
It has been our privilege over the past few months to work with the great people at Skytap. Skytap is a VMware ESXi-based public cloud. In addition to some very innovative capabilities around the management of…
Nathan Biggs (@nathanbiggs), CEO
About a month ago I published a blog post reflecting on a positive and challenging 2016. I also said that a week later, I would publish a new blog looking forward to 2017. Well, becoming a…
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), CTO and Chief Evangelist
Oracle introduced its Licensing Oracle Software in the Cloud Computing Environment policy document in 2010. The most recent change on January 23, 2017 comes with a handful of substantial negatives for licensees’ budgets….
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), CTO and Chief Evangelist
Layman means I’m not an attorney.
Anyone who saw my quote in Nick Budnick’s excellent Portland Tribune piece on the September 15, 2016 CoverOregon settlement would know I’m concerned. I said, “Oracle made out…
Jim Hannan (@jim_m_hannan), Principal Architect
With core counts rapidly increasing per socket (currently we are seeing chips with 20+ cores per socket), Oracle felt they needed to do something about their SE and SE1 licenses, which offered ever increasing capability…
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