Nathan Biggs (@nathanbiggs), CEO
When I was a kid I watched a lot of cartoons. This was before YouTube and social media, so that’s just what we did. One of the cartoons that I watched was the Rocky and Bullwinkle…
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), CTO and Chief Evangelist
Have you ever noticed that just about 100% of grade school through high school musicians are capable of playing the right note on their sheet music at the right time? That said, precious…
Shawn Meyers (@1dizzygoose), Principal Architect
Recently while at a client site, I ran into a situation that stumped me for a bit and shows why best practices exist. This experience reminded me that max server memory is important, and forgetting…
Jim Hannan (@jim_m_hannan), Principal Architect
Back in 2014, I wrote a blog VMFS vs. RDM Part 1, and with the introduction of vSphere 6 and VVols (Virtual Volumes), I thought the time was right for Part 2. In part 2,…
Jeff Stonacek, Principal Architect
Currently, the most common licensing metrics for purchases of core technology products are the following:
Processor – Per-core licensing based on a platform dependent core factor
Named User Plus (NUP) – Based on the number of…
Jonas Mason, Principal Architect
This blog covers the experiences House of Brick consultants have had with the Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) based on migrating to it, supporting it, and patching it. The title indicates our mixed feelings about this offering.
ODA’s…
Nick Walter, Principal Architect
At House of Brick we’ve been closely following the latest news stories regarding the recently revealed Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, which affect modern CPU architectures. Meltdown, as first widely reported by The Register, concerns a flaw…
Andy Kerber (@dbakerber), Senior Consultant
As an Oracle DBA, I often find it necessary to use X-Windows. For unknown reasons, Oracle has chosen to standardize on X-Windows as the normal installer for their software. Because of this requirement for Oracle,…
by Joe Grant (@dba_jedi), Principal Architect
This summer I was involved with a large-scale datacenter move for one of our clients. Rather than maintaining their own datacenters, they utilize a co-location facility. The datacenter where their workloads were hosted was…
Jonas Mason, Principal Architect
My last blog on Non-Default Oracle parameters asked a question in order to prompt a conversation between technical management and DBAs. The blog prompted additional feedback from colleagues here at House of Brick that is worth mentioning,…
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