Introduction and Background About House of Brick In our over twenty-five-year history at House of Brick, we have worked with 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, and cloud)
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), CTO and Chief Evangelist Have you ever noticed that just about 100% of grade school through high school musicians are capable of
Shawn Meyers (@1dizzygoose), Principal Architect Recently while at a client site, I ran into a situation that stumped me for a bit and shows why
Jim Hannan (@jim_m_hannan), Principal Architect Back in 2014, I wrote a blog VMFS vs. RDM Part 1, and with the introduction of vSphere 6 and
Jeff Stonacek, Principal Architect Currently, the most common licensing metrics for purchases of core technology products are the following: Processor – Per-core licensing based on
Jonas Mason, Principal Architect This blog covers the experiences House of Brick consultants have had with the Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) based on migrating to
Nick Walter, Principal Architect At House of Brick we’ve been closely following the latest news stories regarding the recently revealed Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, which
Andy Kerber (@dbakerber), Senior Consultant As an Oracle DBA, I often find it necessary to use X-Windows. For unknown reasons, Oracle has chosen to standardize
by Joe Grant (@dba_jedi), Principal Architect This summer I was involved with a large-scale datacenter move for one of our clients. Rather than maintaining their
Jonas Mason, Principal Architect My last blog on Non-Default Oracle parameters asked a question in order to prompt a conversation between technical management and DBAs. The
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), CTO and Chief Evangelist Mars v. Oracle was dismissed at Mars’ initiative two years ago on December 16, 2015. What hasn’t changed
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