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…
Explosive Disclosures Validate HoB Experience with Oracle Audits
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.
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…
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…
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…