Andy Kerber (@dbakerber), Senior Consultant
Renaming an Oracle Grid Infrastructure home is not something that needs to be done often, but I recently had occasion to change the name of a GI home without upgrading it. Oracle documentation includes instructions…
by Jeff Stonacek, Principal Architect
Overview
Oracle licensing is a very complex topic. To further complicate things, different metrics have been used to license core technology products (Database and Middleware) throughout the years. The most common metrics currently in use are…
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…
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