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Nathan Biggs (@nathanbiggs), CEO I have had the privilege this year of working with our partner EMC in providing Oracle-focused technical sessions around the world.
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
Joe Grant (@dba_jedi), Principal Architect One of the most asked questions concerning running Oracle Databases in a virtualized environment is: “How do we present the
Jeff Stonacek, Principal Architect Overview In part one of this post, we described the high level concept of using Oracle’s new cross platform incremental backup
Mike Stone (@HoBMStone), CIO & Principal Architect When we are asked to introduce new database technology or a new architecture at an existing customer site,
Joe Grant (@dba_jedi), Principal Architect One of the not so fun jobs for a DBA is the never-ending task of refreshing non-production databases from their
Joe Grant, Principal Architect In keeping with the use of templates, as we did in part one of this post, the next thing would be
Mike Stone (@HoBMStone), CIO & Principal Architect I recently read about a feature of NetApp called “FlexClone”, which promises instant virtual-to-physical (v2p) cloning of VMDK
Nathan Biggs (@nathanbiggs), CEO I have been meeting with customers all around the world recently and talking commiserating with them about their experiences dealing with
Use NEWID to safely rename a database in SQL Server: steps, file name updates, single-user mode, and validation tips.