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Author: Jeremiah Wilton
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Amazon RDS for Oracle: First Impressions

On Tuesday, Amazon announced availability of an Oracle version of their Relational Database Service (RDS). RDS is one of Amazon’s cloud services.

Jeremiah Wilton | May 26, 2011

Determining optimal Amazon S3 transfer parallelism

Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) is a robust, inexpensive and highly-available internet data storage service.

Jeremiah Wilton | April 23, 2011

Oracle tablespace hot backup mode revisited

Oracle’s pre-RMAN hot backup mode is the subject of one of the most pervasive and persistent misconceptions about Oracle.

Jeremiah Wilton | December 9, 2010

Good OCP / Bad OCP

For those contemplating launching a career in Oracle database administration, there are essentially three routes.

Jeremiah Wilton | August 4, 2010

How Incompetence Stimulates the Information Technology Economy

As information technology professionals, we constantly complain about mismanaged projects in which we have the misfortune to be involved.

Jeremiah Wilton | April 8, 2010

Converting Hexadecimal Oracle SCNs to Decimal

Oracle serializes transactions and manages concurrency and recovery using an ever-increasing number called a system change number, or SCN.

Jeremiah Wilton | November 19, 2009

ORA-00054: Resource Busy and Acquire With NOWAIT Specified

Ora-00054 fix! Learn how to resolve Oracle errors, including this truncate error: ORA-00054: Resource Busy and Acquire With NOWAIT Specified.

Jeremiah Wilton | September 22, 2009

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