What Enterprise IT Leaders Are Really Saying About AI
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ORA-28030: Server encountered problems accessing LDAP directory service. Cause: Unable to access LDAP directory ...
This short blog post is a reminder to remember the syntax. I was just trying to bring down local listeners at half rack ...

Introduction Checksum is a standard practice among DBAs to verify the data consistency across replicated nodes. In this ...
SQL Server 2016 is making lots of news, and promises to be a revolutionary SQL Server version. In talking about ...
I am going to start this new series of blog posts talking about code migration use cases. We will talk about migration ...
Recently we've received an alert from one of our clients that running threads are high on one of their servers. Once we ...
We are noticing a steady adoption of Hive adoption among our customers. Due to the increased workload we want to make ...
Microsoft Azure provides an acceptable and affordable platform for a training environment. I am an Oracle DBA, and use ...
Background In the previous article, I covered the basics of how to remove database passwords (credentials) from Oracle ...
This blog post is a continuation to an earlier post about my musings on Oracle EBS support for virtual host names. ...
Background Almost every DBA writes and uses various custom scripts to monitor and backup their Oracle databases. ...
In a previous post ( OpenTSDB and Google Cloud Bigtable) we discussed OpenTSDB, an open source distributed database ...
While experimenting with Auto DOP (parallel_degree_policy) in Oracle 12c, I stumbled upon a highly effective (and ...
What started out as an investigation into how the optimizer deals with predicates that are outside the known range of ...
Explanation We are often being paged by development teams talking about locks, blocks or deadlocks and some people make ...
December 2015 brought us a new version of GoldenGate, and a new version for Big Data adapters for the GoldenGate. Let's ...
Google Cloud SQL is a fully managed database service that makes it easy to set-up, maintain, manage, and administer ...
This blog post was co-authored by Peter Sylvester and Valerie Parham-Thompson Introduced in version 10.1.3 (and with ...
Recently I was playing with the SQL Server 2016 CTP 2 and noticed that there was a new feature introduced - Basic ...
Time and time again I run into database accounts which are marked "LOCKED" or "EXPIRED & LOCKED". The main problem ...
Google Cloud Dataproc, now generally available, provides access to fully managed Hadoop and Apache Spark clusters, and ...
Background A test upgrade from 11g to 12c and conversion to a container and pluggable database recently pointed out ...
In this blog post, we continue our review of the new Oracle GoldenGate Big Data adapters. In the first part of the ...
Introduction wait_timeout interactive_timeout net_read_timeout net_write_timeout What do these timeouts do in MySQL? If ...
User management on Linux systems can be tedious, and when you add in more than 10 systems the chances are it is going ...

Recently, checking Amazon Web Services, I stumbled upon a service I hadn't tested before. It was Data Migration Service ...