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Oracle’s October 2026 price list cuts Java SE costs for companies under 3,000 employees. See the new bands, real savings, and the fine print first.
Jim Hannan (@jim_m_hannan), Principal Architect; Nick Walter, Principal Architect; and Bob Lindquist, Director of Client Services In this blog we take a look at some trends that
Learn how to replicate Oracle on-premises to Amazon RDS using open-source SymmetricDS: installation, engine config, security, and verification steps.
Learn about Java 11 licensing splits, Oracle JDK subscription models (processor vs NUP), exceptions, and compliance recommendations.
Jim Hannan (@jim_m_hannan), Principal Architect Is this blog, we have gathered some of our favorite blogs and tools related to benchmarking and performance troubleshooting. Feel
Nick Walter, Principal Architect Oracle Security Best Practices in EC2 and RDS for the DBA Many House of Brick customers who I speak to are
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
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
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