House of Brick guides database modernization, reducing Oracle license risk, optimizing SQL Server, and ensuring cloud migration success.
Understand 2024’s Oracle Java licensing risks, pricing changes, and mitigation steps. Learn how to protect your organization with expert guidance.
Convert CLOB columns to extended VARCHAR2 in Oracle 12c (up to 32 KB). Learn setup, conversion commands, and best practices.
Learn to enable SQL Server Audit in SSMS and review audit logs for security and compliance. Step-by-step guidance and best practices.
Discover Oracle database licensing strategies for AWS migrations: BYOL, RDS License Included, Multi-AZ, DR, multitenant, and containerization practices.
Introduction In one of the biggest tech acquisitions of 2022, Broadcom acquired VMware for a staggering $61 billion. This move has significant implications for VMware
One common impediment we hear concerning moving Oracle workloads to AWS concerns Oracle RAC. Most of the Oracle customers that have purchased and implemented Oracle
Compare Amazon Aurora MySQL with SQL Server. See performance, feature, and cost differences for your workloads.
Overview With all of the database platforms and cloud service providers available, it is becoming more likely that companies will have databases running on multiple
Licensing Oracle software in AWS can be, let’s face it, half as efficient as licensing it on-premises. Why? In the cloud, if you can’t identify
Updated on 2-16-24 by Nathan Biggs (@nathanbiggs), CEO I wrote the blog post below five years ago. I am amazed at how prescient those recommendations
