Quick post to point my readers to this: Explosive Disclosures Validate HoB Experience with Oracle Audits An absolute must read if you want to know more about licensing and audits. 3,491 total views
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What was the name of that SQL script again? SQLWrap to the rescue!
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
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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Announcing qdda 2.0
It’s almost a year since I blogged about qdda (the Quick & Dirty Dedupe Analyzer). qdda is a tool that lets you scan any Linux disk or file (or multiple disks) and predicts potential thin, dedupe and compression savings if…
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Time for a change: Migrating Exadata to a modern All-Flash array
With Oracle’s uncertain SPARC future, the rise of very fast and capable All-Flash arrays and existing Exadata customers looking to refresh their hardware, I increasingly get questions on what platform we can offer as an alternative to Exadata or…
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