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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.
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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.
Phil Ekins (@SQLPhilUK), Principal Architect At House of Brick we regularly provide license based consulting across the SQL Server and Oracle database stacks. We have
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
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), CTO & Chief Evangelist See my 12/15/17 blog post The Sound of Silence: Celebrating the Two Year Anniversary of the Dismissal of

Phil Ekins (@SQLPhilUK), Principal Architect The second blog in this series on Database Mail discussed how to troubleshoot and identify some common issues seen with

Fix Database Mail issues in SQL Server: read logs, test normal and failed sends, resolve mail server errors, correct SMTP port settings, and restart stalled queues.

Fix Database Mail fast: enable Database Mail XPs, start the service, configure SMTP authentication and whitelisting, set the SQL Agent mail profile, and run our setup script.
Shawn Meyers (@1dizzygoose), Principal Architect In the course of our travels, we have deployed Availability Groups (AG) for many of our clients. One of the

Step-by-step OEM Cloud Control silent install: download files, extract response templates, edit new_install.rsp, run the installer, and verify logs.
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
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