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Six alternatives to replace licensed Oracle database options

Bart Sjerps 2017-07-112024-11-29 Oracle

More and more I hear companies looking into replacing expensive licensed database options with more cost-effective alternatives, for various reasons: simple cost reduction, or avoiding lock-in, or because of other strategic considerations. In order to kickstart the creative thinking, here…

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Introducing Outrun for Oracle

Bart Sjerps 2015-07-01 Oracle, Performance, Virtualization

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…

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Fun with Linux UDEV and ASM: Using UDEV to create ASM disk volumes

Bart Sjerps 2014-07-01 Oracle, Virtualization

Because of the many discussions and confusion around the topic of partitioning, disk alignment and it’s brother issue, ASM disk management, hereby an explanation on how to use UDEV, and as an extra, I present a tool that manages some…

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Starting an Oracle database on physical server using VMware VMDK volumes

Bart Sjerps 2013-09-17 Oracle, Virtualization

By now, we all know Oracle is fully supported on VMware. Anyone telling you it’s not supported is either lying to you, or doesn’t know what he is talking about (I keep wondering what’s worse). VMware support includes Oracle RAC…

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Big Ideas; Big Tech: Continuous Operations for Oracle RAC with EMC VPLEX

Bart Sjerps 2013-01-22 Innovation, Oracle, VPLEX

Here’s an EMC video on Youtube about Oracle RAC with EMC VPLEX. Very nice, check it out! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRtl6dU2P_E

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