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)
Michael Stone (@HoBMStone), Lead Architect and CIO VM Strategies Being virtualized brings some intriguing new possibilities to the table in terms of database backup, recovery,
Jim Hannan (@HoBHannan), Principal Architect In part 1 of this blog we covered real time, baseline, and health check tools for troubleshooting middleware performance issues.
Jim Hannan (@HoBHannan), Principal Architect I first started working with Oracle as Unix/Network administrator. Our DBA left for another job and I inherited the database
by Joe Grant (@dba_jedi), Principal Architect When migrating an Oracle database from one platform to another, there are several factors to take into consideration. The
Michael Stone (@HoBMStone), Lead Architect and CIO Size of [N]VARCHAR2, RAW Increased 8x! One easily overlooked new feature of 12c is an increase in the
Jim Hannan (@HoBHannan), Principal Architect I have been in the IT industry for about 20 years. As many of you can relate, when you talk
Andy Kerber (@dbakerber), Senior Consultant Occasionally as a DBA you will come across a query that works very well, but for some reason insists on
by Jeff Stonacek, Principal Architect In October of 2014, I wrote a blog describing how to use the Tuned daemon to make system settings persistent
by Jeff Stonacek, Principal Architect Renaming a volume group is a fairly straightforward process, assuming that the volume group is not the root volume group.
Jonas Mason, Senior Consultant Part 1 and Part 2 of this Troubleshooting Oracle Performance blog series focused on narrowing the scope and identifying problematic sessions
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