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Upgrade Your SQL Server 2014 Before Support Ends

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)

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Networking and Jumbo Frames

Mike Stone (@HoBMStone), CIO & Principal Architect In our travels helping customers design and tune systems for running Oracle workloads, we often recommend the use

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VMFS vs. RDM Part 1

Jim Hannan (@HoBHannan), Principal Architect Update: With vSphere 6 and the introduction of VVols, I thought it was time to write part 2 of this

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Configuring DD Boost

Jeff Stonacek, Principal Architect What is DD Boost? DD Boost is a Data Domain product specifically designed for database backup integration. In the case of

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