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Jeff Stonacek, Principal Architect Introduction There are two common ways to increase the amount of swap space in Linux, by either adding a storage device
Mike Stone (@HoBMStone), CIO It seems like every time I turn around this fall, I hear questions about “12c Multitenancy” or pluggable databases. This probably
Nathan Biggs (@nathanbiggs), CEO The trend in the storage industry towards all flash arrays is a welcomed development. The cost of flash storage has finally
Joe Grant, Principal Architect One of the nice things that Oracle has done for patching RAC systems is to introduce the “Opatch auto” command. This
Jeff Stonacek, Principal Architect Introduction The use of all-flash arrays is increasing all the time. House of Brick has definitely seen an uptick in the
Shawn Meyers, Principal Architect Last week I was at VMworld Europe giving a presentation on vNUMA and its impact on SQL server. This post will
Andy Kerber, Senior Consultant The intent of this post is to describe the steps to complete a silent installation of Oracle 12c Grid Infrastructure (not
Dave Welch, CTO and Chief Evangelist The press loved the Campaign for Clear Licensing’s assessment of Oracle’s licensing practices, “Key Risks in Managing Oracle Licensing”
Jonas Mason, Senior Consultant House of Brick consultants assess Tier 1 Oracle workloads using a number of load generating tools and performance reports. In this
Andy Kerber, Senior Consultant The intent of this series of posts is to cover basic Oracle skills for the beginning DBA. These are follow-on posts