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Oracle Forms: Newly Created Runtime Process Has Terminated Abnormally

After applying a Critical Patch Update (CPU) or a specific bundle patch to an Oracle Forms 12c environment, you might ...

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Oracle

Oracle APEX - Hosting and Licensing

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Microsoft SQL Server is seen by many as the workhorse of the enterprise. It powers everything from high-transaction ...

Oracle

Introducing Oracle Enterprise Data Quality

Great BI dashboards mean nothing without accurate data. Oracle Enterprise Data Quality (EDQ) addresses this challenge ...

Oracle

The Ultimate List: Top Oracle Managed Service Providers (MSP)

Oracle environments power the enterprise. They run everything from mission-critical ERPs to complex data warehouses. ...

Managed Services

The Top 10 Remote DBA Services Companies

Your databases power your applications, your reporting, and your daily operations. When they fail, your business stops.

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Oracle

The Future of the Data Estate: Why Pythian Acquired Rittman Mead

Enterprise data operates in cycles. Today’s breakthrough platform inevitably becomes tomorrow’s legacy system. And, ...

Managed Services

Why Reactive DBA Is Obsolete and the Future Is Outsourcing to a Proactive Partner

The cost of 'break-fix' Many organizations use a "break-fix" model—or reactive database administration—for traditional ...

Managed Services

What are Database Administration Services?

Database administration services keep your business running. Shifting to remote DBA services cuts costs and fuels ...

Managed Services

Top 5 Considerations for Selecting a Database Managed Service Provider for your RFP

The customer consensus: what the data says about winning the database managed service RFP We used artificial ...

Managed Services

Checklist: Choosing the Right Database Managed Service Provider for Your RFP

Why your current database managed service RFP process fails The request for proposal (RFP) process for database managed ...

Managed Services

How Database Administration Services Dramatically Reduce TCO

When organizations calculate their data infrastructure expense, they often fixate on the most obvious cost: the ...

Managed Services

The Essential Guide to Modern Database Administration Services

Your data infrastructure is growing more complex and demands constant attention. The demands on in-house database ...

Managed Services

Checklist: How to Evaluate Database Managed Service Providers (MSP)

Key criteria for choosing a strategic database managed service provider (MSP)

Managed Services

The Ultimate MSP List: Top Database Managed Service Providers

Your database is a critical asset, but managing it 24/7 across multiple technologies is a major challenge. Maintaining ...

Database

What is an MSP's role in a hybrid-cloud strategy?

A managed service provider (MSP) for hybrid cloud acts as an expert service layer that unifies management, security, ...

Database

The Difference Between Database Managed Services and Managed Database Services

The terms 'database managed services' and 'managed database services' sound almost identical and are often used ...

Data

Pythian: A Leading Datavail Competitor in Remote Database Administrative (DBA) Services

Remote database administrative (DBA) services Pythian’s remote database administrative (DBA) services are designed to ...

Managed Services

Pythian: A Leading Datavail Competitor in Remote DBA and Managed Services

Positioning overview Pythian is a global professional and managed services provider with over 25 years of industry ...

MySQL

The hidden cost of too many indexes in MySQL

Indexes are great, right? They make your queries faster, improve lookups, and are essential to performance tuning.

MySQL

Important pre-checks before running pt-online-schema-change to Add/Drop an index in MySQL

When you're working with large MySQL tables in production, making schema changes like adding or dropping indexes can be ...

Microsoft SQL Server

Improving Backup efficiency on SQL Server 2025 with the new ZSTD algorithm

Native backup compression was introduced in SQL Server 2008 and was a game changer as it reduced the data space ...

Microsoft SQL Server

Next-Gen Data Intelligence: How SQL Server 2025 Redefines the Modern Database

SQL Server 2025 is not just another upgrade—it’s a dramatic reimagining of the database for the AI era.

Oracle

Oracle PDB Default Service Limiting SQL Parallelism

While investigating a parallel query related performance problem in an 19.24 Oracle RACOne node database, I encountered ...

Oracle

Configuring CDC for Oracle Databases

An Oracle Database deployment comes with various integration features, and one particularly interesting one is Change ...

Oracle

Controlling Oracle Fetch Sizes with Oraaccess.xml

Most Oracle DBAs are probably familiar with the concept of fetch size. The fetch size is the number of rows that are ...

Oracle

DML Part of a Parallel INSERT Suddenly Started to Execute Serially in Oracle

This post is about investigating a non obvious reason an INSERT running in parallel suddenly started taking longer to ...

Oracle

Did you know: Oracle EBS R12.2 #1 - Managing OHS

Introduction For a long time now I've wanted to start a blog series outlining the not-so-obvious things that have ...

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Oracle Forms: Newly Created Runtime Process Has Terminated Abnormally

Oracle Data Integrator 12c release

Oracle APEX - Hosting and Licensing

Linux cluster sysadmin -- SSH keys

The Top 10 SQL Server Managed Service Providers (MSP)

Introducing Oracle Enterprise Data Quality

The Ultimate List: Top Oracle Managed Service Providers (MSP)

The Top 10 Remote DBA Services Companies

The Future of the Data Estate: Why Pythian Acquired Rittman Mead

Why Reactive DBA Is Obsolete and the Future Is Outsourcing to a Proactive Partner

What are Database Administration Services?

Top 5 Considerations for Selecting a Database Managed Service Provider for your RFP

Checklist: Choosing the Right Database Managed Service Provider for Your RFP

How Database Administration Services Dramatically Reduce TCO

The Essential Guide to Modern Database Administration Services

Checklist: How to Evaluate Database Managed Service Providers (MSP)

The Ultimate MSP List: Top Database Managed Service Providers

What is an MSP's role in a hybrid-cloud strategy?

The Difference Between Database Managed Services and Managed Database Services

Pythian: A Leading Datavail Competitor in Remote Database Administrative (DBA) Services

Pythian: A Leading Datavail Competitor in Remote DBA and Managed Services

The hidden cost of too many indexes in MySQL

Important pre-checks before running pt-online-schema-change to Add/Drop an index in MySQL

Improving Backup efficiency on SQL Server 2025 with the new ZSTD algorithm

Next-Gen Data Intelligence: How SQL Server 2025 Redefines the Modern Database

Oracle PDB Default Service Limiting SQL Parallelism

Configuring CDC for Oracle Databases

Controlling Oracle Fetch Sizes with Oraaccess.xml

DML Part of a Parallel INSERT Suddenly Started to Execute Serially in Oracle

Did you know: Oracle EBS R12.2 #1 - Managing OHS

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