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)
Andy Kerber (@dbakerber), Senior Consultant Recently Oracle has dramatically increased the price of its Oracle Standard Edition database. Because of this price increase, many observers
Joe Grant (@dba_jedi), Principal Architect The dream of active/active datacenters is becoming more of a reality. One issue for this type of architecture is how
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), CTO and Chief Evangelist House of Brick has become the industry’s lightning rod on the topic of licensing Oracle technology running on
Andy Kerber, Senior Consultant In this article we are going to cover how to create a VMware workstation to be used to install the Oracle
Jim Hannan (@HoBHannan), Principal Architect In this blog we would like to take a look back at 2015. A lot happened this year. I will
Jeff Stonacek, Principal Architect Introduction There are two common ways to increase the amount of swap space in Linux, by either adding a storage device
Mike Stone (@HoBMStone), CIO It seems like every time I turn around this fall, I hear questions about “12c Multitenancy” or pluggable databases. This probably
Nathan Biggs (@nathanbiggs), CEO The trend in the storage industry towards all flash arrays is a welcomed development. The cost of flash storage has finally
Joe Grant, Principal Architect One of the nice things that Oracle has done for patching RAC systems is to introduce the “Opatch auto” command. This
Jeff Stonacek, Principal Architect Introduction The use of all-flash arrays is increasing all the time. House of Brick has definitely seen an uptick in the
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