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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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VMworld 2013 Observations

Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), CTO and Chief Evangelist Here are some of my observations on VMworld 2013 San Francisco. In Pat Gelsinger’s Monday keynote, I was

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What is Pivotal?

House of Brick Principal Architect On December 4, 2012, EMC and VMware released the initial details on a new group called the Pivotal Initiative. From

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OS Watcher Black Box

Jim Hannan (@HoBHannan), Principal Architect Most DBAs will agree that good performance monitoring and troubleshooting should include OS metrics – in addition to traditional tools

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NMON

Jim Hannan (@HoBHannan), Principal Architect The nmon utility is a command line performance monitor utility distributed by IBM. Originally created for the AIX operating system,

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Subtle Benefits of Virtualization

House of Brick Principal Architect Earlier this week, a blog post by guest blogger Christian Wickham was posted at VMware.com entitled: “Hidden benefits of virtualisation

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