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)
House of Brick Principal Architect A fun customer of ours asked me today if you could convert an RDM directly into a VMDK. They had
Jim Hannan (@HoBHannan), Principal Architect I strongly believe one of the most beneficial exercises an IT staff can undergo is benchmarking. There are truly some
House of Brick Principal Architect A few weeks ago I posted a short post on the current SQL Server certification paths from Microsoft. This week
House of Brick Principal Architect “Your database is running slow, and you need to drop every other emergency and fix it right now!” Do you
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), CTO and Chief Evangelist Tech Target’s Beth Pariseau asked for my opinion on Oracle’s recent Nimbula purchase announcement. She then posted an
House of Brick Principal Architect Every once in a while I get asked about checklists and routine tasks that DBAs should be performing. I have
Jim Hannan (@HoBHannan), Principal Architect In my previous post I discussed tools to automate deployments for virtualized Oracle workloads. I outlined some of the current
House of Brick Principal Architect How much time are you wasting every month with your SQL Servers because of nonstandard server configurations? Sit back and
Dave Welch (@OraVBCA), CTO and Chief Evangelist I advocate that IT management at all levels and administrators of peer technical disciplines read the Oracle Database
House of Brick Principal Architect You have allocated too many resources to your virtual machines, and now your business-critical server performance is suffering! How can
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