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…
Nick Walter, Principal Architect
Recently I wrote a blog about AWS’ newly unveiled Optimize CPUs for Amazon EC2 Instances feature. While a very welcome feature, it was disappointing that the feature was only initially available for EC2 but not RDS….
Nathan Biggs (@nathanbiggs), CEO
When it comes to messaging coming from the Oracle sales team on how to properly license their software, the misleading information is nothing if not predictable. With a hat tip to the Britney Spears album of…
Nick Walter, Principal Architect
Licensing Oracle software products in a public cloud environment has always been an awkward sticking point for enterprises looking to move towards hybrid cloud or public cloud solutions. Oracle software products have traditionally been licensed by…
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), CTO and Chief Evangelist
A Former Professional Life
The Product Integration Group was established at a former employer by a visionary president. He understood the need for something that went beyond functional quality assurance—a team that proved and…
Andy Kerber (@dbakerber), Senior Consultant
One common Oracle DBA problem is migrating to new hardware. Typically, the Oracle database will be moved to new hardware, either on the same, or an upgraded version, of the same operating system. When moving…
by Joe Grant (@dba_jedi), Principal Architect
This is part two of an ongoing series discussing the installation and configuration of SQL Server on Linux. Technically this is part 2a, and there will be parts 2b and 2c covering the installation…
by Joe Grant (@dba_jedi), Principal Architect
This article will be the first in a series that discusses installing and running Microsoft SQL Server on Linux, in both physical and virtualized worlds. In this first article, we will be discussing some…
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