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Azure host-caching with Oracle database workloads on Azure VMs

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| azure, Oracle

There are almost 2,000 Azure customers running Oracle database workloads on Azure VMs, and that number is growing rapidly all the time.  Running Oracle on Azure is not the first idea to occur to many people, but it should be, as there are several types of VMs appropriate for Oracle workloads within Azure, as well […]

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Oracle dNFS on NFS v4.1

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If you search the Oracle Support website or the internet for information on Oracle’s direct NFS (dNFS), you’ll find a decent amount of useful information, including coded examples. However, if you look a little more closely, all of those examples show NFS v3.0 in use, and do not show examples using higher versions of NFS. […]

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Delphix XPP explained

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This article was originally posted on the Delphix Support blog on 15-Nov 2015, but with the deprecation of the XPP feature with the new 6.0 release and higher, it was decided best to remove this article. So, I have saved it and posted it here instead, almost 4 years to the day after it was […]

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Oak Table World 2018

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| Delphix, Life, Oak Table, Oracle

Oak Table World 2018 (OTW) just completed at the Children’s Creativity Museum in San Francisco.  The event website is “https://otw18.org“. This year, it was my turn to organize this remarkable little un-conference on behalf of the Oak Table Network, which is often described as a drinking society with an Oracle problem. What is an “un-conference”?  […]

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Achieving a balance

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| Life

  Please think this through carefully? Cite a single occasion when a woman did not receive shaming, threats of job termination, counter-accusations, death threats, and personal shunning after she finally found herself unable to continue in the abrasive hell created for her, solely because she appealed to (or didn’t appeal to) a self-obsessed self-righteous forever-child? […]

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Automating Stored Procedures When Refreshing Virtual SQL Server Databases

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| Delphix, SQL Server

So… you’re using a Delphix virtualization engine to provision SQL Server virtual databases (VDBs), but you’re finding that your SQL account passwords are being reset to those used in production after every refresh?  Likewise, all of the settings in the application supported by the database? Provisioning a new virtual databases is easy.  Go into the […]

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SQL Saturday 588 – May 20 in NYC

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| Delphix, SQL Server

I’m really excited about speaking at SQL Saturday #588 at the Microsoft office in Times Square, I’ll be discussing Accelerating TDM Using Data Virtualization.  This is my favorite topic, because for the 20+ years that I worked as a database administrator (DBA), I ran into the same challenges time and again. The challenges of data […]

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SQL Saturday – 25-March 2017 – Colorado Springs CO

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| Delphix, SQL Server

I’m really excited about speaking at SQL Saturday on my favorite topic! SQLSaturday is a free training event for Microsoft Data Platform professionals and those wanting to learn about SQL Server, Business Intelligence and Analytics.  I’m all for that! At this event, I’ll be discussing Accelerating DevOps and TDM Using Data Virtualization.  This is my […]

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Singing The NoCOUG Blues

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| Life, Oracle

This is a re-post of an interview between myself and Iggy Fernandez, editor of the Journal of the Northern California Oracle Users Group (NoCOUG), Oracle ACE, OakTable member, blogger, and simply an amazing person.  The interview starts on page 4 of the August 2014 issue of the NoCOUG Journal, and demonstrates how a gifted interviewer […]

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Presenting “How Data Recovery Mechanisms Complicate Security, and What To Do About It” at #c16lv

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| Delphix, Oracle

Personally-identifiable information (PII) and classified information stored within an Oracle database is quite secure, as the capabilities of Oracle database ensure that it is accessible only by authenticated and authorized users. But the definition of authentication and authorization can change, in a sense. In a production application, authentication means verifying that one is a valid […]

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  • Azure host-caching with Oracle database workloads on Azure VMs July 2, 2021
  • Oracle dNFS on NFS v4.1 June 17, 2021
  • Delphix XPP explained November 14, 2019
  • Oak Table World 2018 October 25, 2018
  • Achieving a balance December 1, 2017
  • Automating Stored Procedures When Refreshing Virtual SQL Server Databases October 31, 2017

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