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When is remote DBA the right solution?

A remote DBA service can provide access to experts in performance tuning, backup and recovery, replication, or a host of other database focus areas for a fraction of the cost.

ORA-04031 and ASMM

Oracle E-Business Suite customer was reporting ORA-04031 errors being returned by the database.

Using Checksums to Ensure Table Consistency in MySQL

If you’re using MySQL replication, chances are your master and slave databases aren’t entirely consistent. There are a number of reasons for this. Some MySQL functions like UUID() don’t replicate properly with statement-based replication.

Phase in the Sun JRE plug-in

This method is a simple way of allowing you to control when you deal with desktop plug-in issues.

Proactive Maintenance for Oracle E-Business Suite

As a remote services provider, often we are often asked to provide proactive maintenance support for clients. For the purposes of this discussion, I’m going to separate operational support form maintenance support.

Exploring Oracle 11g Tablespace Encryption

Tablespace encryption encrypts data at the datafile level to keep people from being able to peek at the oracle datafiles directly.