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Author: Bart Sjerps

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Bart Sjerps 2021-07-062024-11-29 General

Dirty Cache has moved to a new home: https://dirty-cache.com. New great content is coming up! If you are a subscriber to my blog and you want to keep getting notices about new blog posts: You’re an email subscriber: No action…

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Oracle on VMware – The Final Frontier

Bart Sjerps 2020-03-092024-11-29 Oracle, Virtualization

A question I tend to ask my customers almost always is what their current state is regarding IT transformation and journey to the cloud. Of course such a strategy does not work very well on bare metal and some kind…

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Explosive Disclosures Validate HoB Experience with Oracle Audits

Bart Sjerps 2019-06-032024-11-29 Oracle, Virtualization

Quick post to point my readers to this: http://houseofbrick.com/explosive-disclosures-validate-hob-experience-with-oracle-audits/ An absolute must read if you want to know more about licensing and audits.

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What was the name of that SQL script again? SQLWrap to the rescue!

Bart Sjerps 2019-03-182024-11-29 Oracle

If you are a frequent user of Oracle SQL*Plus, you probably also know about a tool called rlwrap. Bare SQL*Plus does not offer command history, arrow-key editing or any type of word completion so it feels like you’re thrown back…

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QDDA update – 2.2

Bart Sjerps 2019-02-082024-11-29 General

Quick post to announce QDDA version 2.2 has been published on Github and in the Outrun-Extras YUM repository. Reminder: The Quick and Dirty Dedupe Analyzer is an Open Source Linux tool that scans disks or files block by block to find…

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