What Enterprise IT Leaders Are Really Saying About AI
Enterprise AI has reached an interesting inflection point.
Introduction to Oracle on Google Cloud About a year ago, I worked on a project with some amazing teammates (Simon Pane ...
Background I could start this blog the same way I started this one because everything is supposed to be easy and at a 1 ...
As business entities move some of their services to Microsoft Azure Cloud (Azure), we see hybrid networks emerge that ...
Good news! Cloud Data Fusion is now GA. Announced at Google Next ‘19 UK on November 21, 2019, Cloud Data Fusion is a ...
Let’s revisit our options when moving your SQL Server workloads to Azure and check out ways to migrate on each of them. ...
“The only thing that is constant is change.” - Heraclitus, Greek Philosopher, 535 BCE to 475 BCE While change might be ...
As part of a recent project, I installed the Oracle Cloud command line utilities (oci) on the following Linux systems:

As a solutions architect at Pythian, I often get questions from clients about the many solutions available to them to ...
I remember when I started blogging in 2008. It was a nice learning experience, and it was rewarding, too - both the ...
This Log Buffer Edition covers Cloud, Oracle, and MySQL.

Problem: You run an SQL backup to URL and get the following error: Msg 3201, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 Cannot open ...

Problem: You are deploying a SQL Server Integration Services Package to the SSIS Catalog and keeps on failing with the ...
Error Statement I recently found this interesting message error in a CRS alert log from a client environment:
The scope of this article is to show how to run DBSAT (Oracle Database Security Assessment Tool) against an Amazon RDS ...
The scope of this article is to provide a brief summary of how to run Oracle Database Security Assessment Tool (DBSAT) ...
Managing Oracle on AWS has some twists. Here are five daily DBA activities that have changed on AWS:
Does IPv6 formatting for JDBC and SQLPlus seem new to you well, it's been available since 11gR2. You're familiar with ...
This Log Buffer Edition covers Cloud, Oracle and MySQL.
In these challenging and ever-changing times, most organizations would welcome the opportunity to reduce overhead, ...
While I was in the process of determining different HA solutions for PostgreSQL, Pgpool and PgBouncer both came into ...
Introduction Convolutional neural networks (CNN), also known as convnets, are a popular deep learning algorithm that ...

There are plenty of database migration options out there, and we love working with clients to help them assess and ...
The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, also known as the second generation cloud, offers an integrated command line utility ...
Cloud functions allow you to run single-purpose functions without having to manage instances in Google Cloud. Cloud SQL ...
Managing, optimizing and balancing cloud cost vs. performance is an ongoing challenge for all cloud architects and ...
Cost is a crucial part of selecting a cloud service provider. It’s important to understand the capabilities of ...
Apache Beam is an SDK (software development kit) available for Java, Python, and Go that allows for a streamlined ETL ...
This post describes (near) real-time data processing for BigQuery with unique and other check constraints, and unit ...
Today’s post is another dealing with AWS services. Let’s say you need to read trace files from RDS — how would you do ...