What Enterprise IT Leaders Are Really Saying About AI
Enterprise AI has reached an interesting inflection point.

Self-directed learning about a product as complex as Oracle E-Business Suite can be challenging. Oracle helpfully ...
How much memory does an Oracle instance actually use? How much does each individual database connection consume? ...
This week, my DBA team fulfilled a request to restore 1 month old lost data. A review of the RMAN backups showed that ...
As with all other database platforms, daily administration and troubleshooting of MongoDB often begins with analyzing ...
Why this article? First of all, because I had fun digging in the code. Then, I was reading a lot about the improvements ...
Ruby's ActiveRecord provides a very robust means of manipulating database table structures especially in the context of ...
Troubleshooting Replication Lag During XtraBackup While running a backup with XtraBackup against a slave server we ...
The biggest objection to Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) we hear from customers is about 4TB usable space limit ...
After reviewing my blog post about running EBS OVM templates in VirtualBox, two of my teammates suggested that I work ...
Investigating the MySQL PASSWORD() Hashing Algorithm Recently we had a question from a customer: what is the hashing ...
Configuring OID 11.1.1.6 connector in OIM 11.1.2 for direct provisioning: There is a big change in the way direct ...
Introduction If you manage Oracle on Windows, you probably have wondered why it is so difficult to work out which ...
Imagine that you have been asked to implement an Oracle security checklist on a 11g Release 2 production database and, ...
Oracle 12c is out! And with it, a myriad of new features that we’ll be learning and playing with in the months and ...
Situation When reviewing the performance of some queries, it is sometimes useful to review the session statistics for ...
Context A frequent inquiry concerning databases’ security is to retrieve the database role(s) associated with each user ...
Those of you who have seen me present about GoldenGate will know that I recommend using a heartbeat table to monitor ...
Last week, I ran into an issue on a high-volume Oracle database where sessions were periodically failing with ORA-27090 ...
Update Jan-2014: I’ve added a note on disabling triggers in Oracle 11.2.0.4 Introduction I recently blogged about an ...
Background A client recently supplied a list of 50+ SQL IDs that should receive SQL profiles, and I’ve been working ...
I was recently looking at an issue where a large database server was running out of temp space. The issue had occurred ...
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has announced the arrival of a new, smaller member of the Exadata X3 H2M2 family: the eighth ...
This post is just a short note documenting a procedure that isn’t done frequently or described anywhere else (to my ...
Like many good stories, this one also started with an innocent question from a customer: “I often check “SELECT ...
TEMPDB, is one of SQL server hot-debated topics; there’s always something to say about its sizing, file placement or ...
Introduction Hello everyone ! For my first time posting here on the Pythian Blog, I would like to share some of my ...
It’s always interesting to dig into the spec sheets for Exadata hardware, especially when those "minor" details like ...
The asymmetric routing problem I’ve noticed that Exadata servers are now configured to use Linux policy routing. ...
Introduction Hot on the heels of 11.2.0.3 coming out for Exadata, there’s yet another Exadata patch schedule out: the ...
I saw a question on the OTN Exadata forum asking whether or not to use BIGFILE temporary tablespaces in an Exadata ...