What Enterprise IT Leaders Are Really Saying About AI
Enterprise AI has reached an interesting inflection point.
Problem Statement Many times we have been called for the poor performance of a database and it has been narrowed down ...
Introduction Apps password change routine in Release 12.2 E-Business Suite changed a little bit. We have now extra ...
There are many posts out there about validating backup. However, none seem to address some recent concerns a client of ...
Among the most critical but often most neglected database administration tasks is testing restore from backup. But ...
I see this following message on all My Oracle Support notes, which talks about database Oracle manual upgrade steps.
What are Statistics? There are multiple paths a database can use to answer a query, some of them being faster and more ...
Resizing a Column in a Table With a Spatial Column Recently a client asked for help with using DBMS_REDEFINITION to ...
With an increase in requirements on database security, database auditing is part of most production databases nowadays. ...
The beauty of working for multiple clients from different industries is that you get exposed to a myriad of environment ...
Introduction This is my first post in Pythian blog, and I wanted to share interesting use-cases that we've dealt with ...
This guide provides a description of the different thread pools and how to monitor them. Includes what to alert on, ...
With the revamp of technology stack in R12.2 of Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) , the way we integrate Oracle Access ...
Efficiently Handling Persistent "Killed" Sessions in Oracle Perhaps you have encountered something like this: A session ...
There’s been a lot of talk about Docker for running processes in isolated userspace (or the cloud for that matter) ...
Problem Statement There was a discrepancy in the failgroups of couple of ASM disks in Exadata. In Exadata, the cell ...
Introduction You can’t make a password strong enough. But at least you can try. Having at least one upper case ...
What’s the most elaborate thing you have done with DataPump? So there I was, given the requirement to export multiple ...
I was working on a project to clone Oracle install to a new Linux server and this should be simple as ...
Background Recently, there was an issue after a node was added to an existing Windows RAC cluster. After everything was ...
Introduction Along with other administrators, life of us, the DBAs are no different but full of adventure. At times, we ...
There is a time in every SQL Server DBA career where a mail came in with a “replication is not working, please check” ...
There are many blog posts out there about active database duplication. However, they were all tested in an ideal ...
Introduction Howdy everyone, One of the most frequent error messages I come across when dealing with SQL Server, ...
So there I was troubleshooting GoldenGate issue and was puzzled as to why GoldenGate transactions were not seen from ...
Introduction As a DBA, you will receive requests from developers or users, indicating that they deleted some data in a ...
Introduction As the amount of data companies are interested in collecting grows, life becomes all the more difficult ...
Handling Maintenance Failures in SQL Server Availability Groups After migrating some databases to SQL Server 2012 and ...
I am a simple person who likes simple things, especially RMAN backup implementation. I have yet to understand why many ...
Problem Statement Have you ever needed to start a new data analysis project or create a report for the business users ...