by House of Brick Staff | Jun 5, 2020 | Oracle
by Joe Grant (@dba_jedi), Principal Architect INSTALLING ORACLE WHEN REQUIRED BY COTS APPLICATIONS Over the last few months, I have had several clients deploying Oracle Database for the first time, which is unusual for me. They were all deploying... 
by House of Brick Staff | Jun 1, 2020 | Oracle, VMware
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), Chief Evangelist Part II: Four Operational Best Practices In this post, we discuss four RAC operational best practices for shops that have either strategically selected RAC or have been compelled to adopt it. RAC operational best practices... 
by House of Brick Staff | May 22, 2020 | Licensing, Oracle, Oracle Licensing
David Woodard, Principal Architect Standard Edition 2 Can be a Great Value Oracle database Standard Edition 2 (SE2), as well as past editions Standard Edition and Standard Edition 1, can be a great value and cost significantly less than Oracle Enterprise... 
by House of Brick Staff | May 12, 2020 | AWS, Cloud, Cloud Computing
Bob Lindquist, Director of Client Services House of Brick Technologies has been assisting clients with their business-critical applications for over twenty years. In that time, we have seen many changes regarding how database platforms are deployed, licensed, and... 
by House of Brick Staff | May 8, 2020 | Dave Welch, Oracle, VMware, vSphere
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), Chief Evangelist Part I: Four Criteria for Introducing or Keeping RAC VMware vSphere High Availability can provide significant levels of high availability for many workloads. VMware HA does so without the complexity, fragility, or cost of Oracle...