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by Jeff Stonacek, Principal Architect Cloning an Oracle database that is running on Pure Storage can be done through Pure’s snapshot and copy technologies. Snapshots
Jim Hannan (@jim_m_hannan), Principal Architect In this blog I will discuss how to manually configure Linux network settings from the command line. While it may
Jonas Mason, Senior Consultant In the last of my blogs on Diagnostics and Tuning Pack features, I will be covering the Access Advisor, which can
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John McDougald, Senior Consultant The Database is Not Working You’ve undoubtedly heard the buzz about DevOps, the new software design lifecycle (SDLC) paradigm that combines
It looks like we aren’t the only ones who are disappointed and frustrated with Oracle’s practices these days. We encourage you to check out a
by Chris Vacanti, Senior Consultant The worst disaster recovery solution is the one you think works. For most of us in the IT industry, disaster
Jim Hannan (@HoBHannan), Principal Architect We are very fond of this picture at House of Brick, as it speaks to the common misconception that Disaster
by Jeff Stonacek, Principal Architect House of Brick Technologies routinely deals with our customers’ opportunities regarding Oracle licensing. Occasionally, a little known licensing metric called