Andy Kerber (@dbakerber), Senior Consultant
I ran into an interesting problem at one of our customer sites the other day. I didn’t get the chance to really track the source of the original problem, which was that the Oracle GUI…
Michael Stone (@HoBMStone), Lead Architect and CIO
Since June of 2014, with the first GA release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) v7, Extensible File System (XFS) has been the default file system. According to Wikipedia’s comparison of filesystems, XFS…
Nick Walter, Principal Architect
I recently worked with a client who was using AWS RDS Oracle for the first time. They, like a lot of organizations familiar with managing Oracle databases in on-premises environment, had a fairly robust backup methodology…
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), CTO & Chief Evangelist
The City of Sunrise (Florida) Firefighters Pension Fund sued Oracle on August 10, 2018 alleging Oracle misled investors on cloud sales growth.
Déjà vu? The first class action alleging Oracle’s stock price manipulation through…
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…
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 Jeff Stonacek, Principal Architect
Oracle Spatial and Graph is a product that allows for the storage and processing of geospatial objects inside of the database. From the Oracle Technology Global Pricing List, “Oracle Spatial is an integrated set of…
Jonas Mason, Principal Architect
Oracle Data Guard has long been Oracle’s recommended solution for providing DR protection for Oracle instances. If your production Oracle databases are few, the scale of effort to implement and maintain Data Guard might be manageable,…
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