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Andy Kerber, Senior Consultant The intent of this post is to describe the steps to complete a silent installation of Oracle 12c Grid Infrastructure (not
Dave Welch, CTO and Chief Evangelist The press loved the Campaign for Clear Licensing’s assessment of Oracle’s licensing practices, “Key Risks in Managing Oracle Licensing”
Jonas Mason, Senior Consultant House of Brick consultants assess Tier 1 Oracle workloads using a number of load generating tools and performance reports. In this
Andy Kerber, Senior Consultant The intent of this series of posts is to cover basic Oracle skills for the beginning DBA. These are follow-on posts
Nick Walter, Principal Architect & David Woodard, Principal Architect It’s been discussed and speculated about for a while, and on September 1st Oracle announced Standard
Jim Hannan (@HoBHannan), Principal Architect At House of Brick, we specialize in virtualization and cloud computing for business critical applications. This gets us involved in
Jim Hannan (@HoBHannan), Principal Architect In Part 1 of this blog, published in June of last year, we discussed the value of having I/O baselines
Shawn Meyers (@1dizzygoose), Principal Architect I was at SQL Saturday #397 in Omaha earlier this month and sat in on an excellent session on “SQL
Joe Grant (@dba_jedi), Principal Architect When Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11.2.0.4 was released it did not yet support Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, however Oracle recently
Nathan Biggs (@nathanbiggs), CEO I have had the privilege this year of working with our partner EMC in providing Oracle-focused technical sessions around the world.