Jim Hannan (@jim_m_hannan), Principal Architect
DBAs often ask me about the different layers involved when presenting storage to Oracle ASM on VMware. In the image below, we have diagrammed all the layers involved in presenting storage to ASM. Starting from…
by Jeff Stonacek, Principal Architect
In Oracle Database version 11g, a new feature called Active Data Guard (ADG) was introduced. This feature extends traditional Data Guard by allowing the standby database to continue to apply redo while remaining open for…
Nathan Biggs (@nathanbiggs), CEO
This blog post is the latest in a series of articles that House of Brick is providing, which use quotes and information from recently filed lawsuits against Oracle to uncover the truth about their treatment (or…
Bob Lindquist, Director of Client Services
Mark Hurd, co-CEO of Oracle, was recently interviewed for an article, All of Our Customers Will Move to the Cloud. In this interview, Mark Hurd suggests that all of Oracle’s on-premises customers will be soon…
Michael Stone (@HoBMStone), Lead Architect and CIO
Although I’m an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certified Solutions Architect, one has to admit that AWS has an almost overwhelming number of options and a security infrastructure with nearly infinite possibilities. This kind…
Nathan Biggs (@nathanbiggs), CEO
The end of the fiscal year for Oracle is always a crazy time, both for Oracle customers and employees. It can also be a little crazy for Oracle licensing and infrastructure consultants. I thought I would…
Jim Hannan (@jim_m_hannan ), Principal Architect
Updated: March 29, 2019
Is this blog post we will take a look at general Oracle database licensing and how the Oracle database tracks feature usage. This can be helpful in preparing for a LMS…
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), CTO & Chief Evangelist
Tactical Law Group’s Pam Fulmer does the non-attorneys among us who work in the Oracle licensing industry a favor by keeping us abreast of legal cases that interest Oracle users. This is handy…
by Jeff Stonacek, Principal Architect
I recently ran into an interesting issue with Oracle 18c Grid Infrastructure (GI). We were building several three-node clusters for a client and on one of the clusters, the ASM diskgroup used for GI was…
Jim Hannan (@jim_m_hannan), Principal Architect; Nick Walter, Principal Architect; and Bob Lindquist, Director of Client Services
In this blog we take a look at some trends that we have observed in the industry over the past year, and what we believe 2019…
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