Transforming Business with Oracle technologies
If you are not familiar with the Oracle Management Cloud technology, please take a look at my summary here: HOW DO YOU MANAGE YOUR CLOUD? STRATEGIES FOR MULTI-VENDOR PUBLIC, PRIVATE & HYBRID CLOUD MANAGEMENT This BLOG will go over how Continue reading Oracle Management Cloud – Cloud Agent Install
Database 12.2 was recently released by Oracle, and with it came a ton of new features. One of the new features is the ability to alter tables and tablespaces while the resource is online. This means that changes are possible Continue reading Database 12.2 New Features – Online TDE
Yup, you all read that headline correctly, I am HAPPY that Oracle Solaris 12 was recently killed. Let this sink in… Solaris 12’s “death” is a good thing… And this is why. Oracle finally wised up about Operating System names, Continue reading It’s about time Solaris 12 was killed!
I get asked this question all the time… “Can you please add 20 G to/u01 for me?” Many DBAs and Middleware admins are nervous about making changes to their Linux systems, especially if they do not understand how changes effect Continue reading How to grow a file system with Oracle Linux 6
Recently I was building a new Oracle Linux yum repository for a project, and had to kick off a uln-yum-mirror. This process is the key to making a local copy of an Oracle yum repository, enabling local hosts to use Continue reading How much bandwidth is my Linux system using, and other network info.
It’s happening folks, the migration to the cloud. Over the last decade, the cloud has become one of the most defining transformation challenges to IT. Gone is the day of monolithic applications, with all the servers in a single datacenter. Continue reading HOW DO YOU MANAGE YOUR CLOUD? STRATEGIES FOR MULTI-VENDOR PUBLIC, PRIVATE & HYBRID CLOUD MANAGEMENT
I was talking with a customer today, and discussing the problems of tracking security compliance for all of their systems, the OS, Middleware and database tiers. I mentioned that Enterprise manager could do this, and was meant with surprise because Continue reading Security Compliance for the Enterprise
So, finally getting moved into my new Dell beast ( A MAXED out 7710) , and ran across an odd “feature” that is driving me crazy. When I drag a window, I get a weird popup, that forces the windows Continue reading Funny popup/snap window when dragging a window on a Dell
I’ve joined in on Tim Hall’s (https://oracle-base.com) idea to celebrate the Oracle Technology Network, and write about their favorite feature. While many people today are talking about the technologies that Oracle Technology Network supports, I decided to go a different Continue reading OTN Appreciation Day : OTN Community
First, if you don’t already use Virtualbox for your local sandbox/development environment, you really should take a look at this very powerful notebook/desktop hypervisor. Not only is it free, but when you install the extensions into your guest VMs Continue reading vboxadd.sh: failed: Please check that you have gcc, make, the header files for your Linux kernel and possibly perl installed..