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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
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
Oracle licensing on AIX and PowerVM is uniquely complex. Learn how LPARs, processor pools, and Oracle’s partitioning policy affect your license count.
Learn how Active Data Guard licensing works, what triggers it, the cost per license, and how to avoid accidentally activating ADG on your standby database.
by Jeff Stonacek, Principal Architect I recently ran into an interesting issue with Oracle 18c Grid Infrastructure (GI). We were building several three-node clusters for
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
Unfortunately, many of our clients are surprised to find they are in fact using database features like Advance Compression. Features like this are easy to
Introduction If you are reading this post then you probably already know about HugePages in Linux. If not, then read this previous blog post, which
Jeff Stonacek, Principal Architect High availability is a common topic addressed by IT professionals worldwide. Real Application Clusters (RAC) is Oracle’s answer to delivering the