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Upgrade Your SQL Server 2014 Before Support Ends

Introduction and Background About House of Brick In our over twenty-five-year history at House of Brick, we have worked with tens of thousands of Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and MySQL customers on all types of database initiatives related to optimization, performance, business continuity, compliance, and best practices. Our consulting expertise was not just specific to the database engine but also advising Clients how to best utilize the different platforms available for deployment (on-prem, virtual, converged/hyper-converged,

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Licensing Oracle on AIX and PowerVM

Jeff Stonacek, Principal Architect The theme of this blog is, “it’s complicated”. PowerVM is not necessarily complicated to the point where it is difficult to

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AWS

Amazon EC2 Host Memory Conundrum

by Jeff Stonacek, Principal Architect I recently completed an engagement where the client was interested in moving from on-premises hardware to the public cloud.  The

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AWS RDS MySQL vs. Aurora MySQL

by Cameron Cameron, Senior Consultant AWS Relational Database Service (RDS) is a managed database platform-as-a-service (PaaS) by AWS that offers customers the option of running

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Oracle

ESXi and Memory Overhead

by Cameron Cameron, Senior Consultant Note: It is assumed that the audience for this document already understands how VMware manages memory for all of the

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