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Finding non-default configuration settings in SQL Server
In our Remote DBA practice, we frequently perform comprehensive system reviews for our customers on their database services.
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.
Determining optimal Amazon S3 transfer parallelism
Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) is a robust, inexpensive and highly-available internet data storage service.
Oracle tablespace hot backup mode revisited
Here’s a revised version of an old popular article I wrote over ten years ago. I wrote this when I was at Amazon.com, long before I came to work at remote DBA provider Blue Gecko. Enjoy! Oracle’s pre-RMAN hot backup mode is the subject of one of the most pervasive and persistent misconceptions about Oracle.
For those contemplating launching a career in Oracle database administration, there are essentially three routes.
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.
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.
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.