by Jeff Stonacek | Feb 3, 2021 | AWS, Cloud, Oracle, Oracle Licensing
Why Run RAC? Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) is a way of accessing a database from multiple database servers. This provides some added High Availability (HA) features over a single-instance database. Hardware failures Rolling patches Horizontal scalability...
by Jeff Stonacek | Nov 10, 2020 | Azure, Linux
Introduction I recently had the opportunity to work with a client that needed to remove some unused disks from Azure. The guest operating system was Linux, not Windows. This is not such a big deal except that the machine had a lot of disks attached and they were all...
by Jeff Stonacek | Aug 12, 2020 | Oracle
Jeff Stonacek, Principal Architect For years, I worked in a Unix/Linux command line on a daily basis. Lately however, my work is more strategic than operational, so I work at a command prompt on a less frequent basis. While I am still hands on keyboard, at my age,...