by Jonas Mason, Principal Architect
House of Brick Consultants assess Oracle instance performance for clients large and small and often find non-default parameters that are deprecated, hidden, or undersized.
These non-default parameters can cause out of memory errors, increase disk I/O,…
Andy Kerber (@dbakerber), Senior Consultant
A basic skill of any Oracle DBA is to install the Oracle database software, both silently and using the installer through X-Windows. In this article, we will discuss installing the Oracle database home using the…
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), CTO and Chief Evangelist
This blog post is a recent interaction with a customer threading with me on Oracle Cloud.
Are there any Oracle licensing considerations beyond the user seat license scheme for ERP Cloud?
Yes, Oracle’s operational readiness….
Michael Stone (@HoBMStone), Lead Architect and CIO
More and more companies are coming to understand that licensing costs for commercial products, such as Oracle, usually dwarf the cost of all other components of the stack combined. For instance, a late…
Jim Hannan (@jim_m_hannan), Principal Architect
Next week House of Brick is hosting a webinar, Straight Talk on Business Critical Applications in the Cloud, as part of the From IT Ops to Cloud Ops BrightTalk Summit. A description of my presentation…
by Joe Grant (@dba_jedi), Principal Architect
In recent years, modern converged infrastructure systems have increased in popularity and for good reason. They run required workloads well, but also simplify management, improve component integration, and scale easily. They offer several benefits…
by Jonas Mason, Senior Consultant
In this last blog of three on the HammerDB Capture and Replay feature, I discuss the command line execution of the replay of SQL contained in TCL files against a destination instance. In Part I…
by Jonas Mason, Senior Consultant
This blog covers how to use the command line to convert Oracle trace files generated on a source instance into Tool Command Language (TCL) files for replay of SQL on a destination instance. Converting Oracle…
Nathan Biggs (@nathanbiggs), CEO
After the whirlwind of the past three weeks, traveling from Las Vegas to Barcelona, with a customer visit in between, I am now back at my desk and sorting through the terrific outcomes that House of…
Jeff Klemme, Principal Architect
I recently had a project where I needed to produce some reports as part of an overall data load process scheduled through a cron job on a Linux server. In over 20 years of developing applications…
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