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Amazon Lures Microsoft Customers with SQL Server RDS

Until very recently, SQL Azure was the only solution offering SQL server on cloud, Google Cloud SQL offering MySQL only and Amazon offering MySQL and Oracle Not anymore! The online retail and cloud solution giant is now offering SQL server as part of its RDS service and also added ASP.NET support for AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Error Installing Oracle VM: File “/usr/lib/anaconda/network.py”, line …

I just installed 3.1.1 Oracle VM server for training purposes on my sandbox and faced the same issue I faced installing 3.0.3 and 3.0.1 versions before. I quickly found a workaround that worked for me. But as follow up I decided to search though Google and MOS in order to see if there has been any good development in resolving the issue from others (Oracle may be ;). Anyway this is that I found.

Happy Geek Pride Day!

Geeks, freakazoids, nerds, dweebs, it’s that time of the year again: May 25th i.e., International Geek Pride Day!! Here are some snapshots of the Geeks at Pythian celebrating in style today.

Log Buffer #273, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs

Glamour from across the world is sparkling in the South of France, but even that has failed to eclipsed the vivid aura of the database blogs from the realms of Oracle, MySQL and SQL Server. This Log Buffer Edition in Log Buffer #273 covers this glamorous gala of innovation.

My SLOB IO Testing Index

As SLOB takes the IO testing on Oracle Instance level you need to watch for several things before you declare official testing results. My suggestion is – don’t take any results for granted. You need to assess those before stating you are done. Here goes my list.

My First Experience Running SLOB – Don’t repeat my errors (AWR)

f you are wondering what I am busy with then this post explains it. As you may noticed I am still testing one of the Oracle systems using the SLOB framework and learning on my way. I ran several tests with the same parameters (Readers 24) and I noticed that for one reason or another awr.txt reports different runtimes. The answer to the mystery was very simple. The runit.sh script just generates awr.txt report for last and one before last awr snapshots.

Insider’s Guide to ODA Performance

If you are interested in the topic of ODA performance, but missed the webinar or if you want to hear it again, you can view our recording here. I also uploaded the slides to slideshare, so you can take a better look at our benchmark results and study our consolidation methods at your own pace.

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