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House of Brick provides cutting-edge software innovation and industry-leading consulting experience to help navigate the most challenging cloud migration and operational challenges.

Swingbench is a Java based load generator for Oracle. Swingbench can be used to perform stress testing. The Swingbench package can be downloaded from here:

Jim Hannan (@HoBHannan), Principal Architect I was working on some documentation for a client and started thinking back on how long we have been using
House of Brick Principal Architect A while back I wrote a post entitled ‘Why Your DBAs Need VMware vCenterAccess’. The response from the SQL Server

Monitor AIX and Linux systems with NMON. Track CPU, memory, and database metrics for SQL Server and Oracle.
House of Brick Principal Architect Earlier this week, a blog post by guest blogger Christian Wickham was posted at VMware.com entitled: “Hidden benefits of virtualisation
House of Brick Principal Architect A fun customer of ours asked me today if you could convert an RDM directly into a VMDK. They had
Jim Hannan (@HoBHannan), Principal Architect I strongly believe one of the most beneficial exercises an IT staff can undergo is benchmarking. There are truly some
House of Brick Principal Architect A few weeks ago I posted a short post on the current SQL Server certification paths from Microsoft. This week
House of Brick Principal Architect “Your database is running slow, and you need to drop every other emergency and fix it right now!” Do you
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), CTO and Chief Evangelist Tech Target’s Beth Pariseau asked for my opinion on Oracle’s recent Nimbula purchase announcement. She then posted an