A while ago I was interviewed by Kay Williams of Madora Consulting. As many customers are overwhelmed by licensing, audit and compliancy issues, I highly recommend my EMEA readers to reach out to Madora if you need independent assistance in…
Introducing Outrun for Oracle
Overview If you want to get your hands dirty with Oracle database, the first thing you have to do is build a system that actually runs Oracle database. Unless you have done that several times before, chances are that this…
Comparing database replication features
It’s still a hot topic in my customer conversations: Should we use Oracle Data Guard or something else for providing disaster recovery? I’ve written an explanation a while ago. Recently I also created a powerpoint slide comparing various features –…
The Oracle Parking Garage
Oracle Data Placement on XtremIO
Many customers these days are implementing Oracle on XtremIO so they benefit from excellent, predictable performance and other benefits such as inline compression and deduplication, snapshots, ease of use etc. Those benefits come at a price and if you just…