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Taking backups during development, testing, or upgrades The process of upgrading an Oracle E-Business Suites (EBS) system is one requiring dozens or hundreds of steps. Think of it like rock climbing. Each handhold or foothold is analogous to one of the steps in the upgrade. What happens if you miss a handhold or foothold? If […]
Borrowing from Wikipedia, the term DevOps is defined as… DevOps (a clipped compound of “development” and “operations”) is a culture, movement or practice that emphasizes the collaboration and communication of both software developers and other information-technology (IT) professionals while automating the process of software delivery and infrastructure changes. It aims at establishing a culture and […]
Going back to the invention of the graphical user interface (GUI) in the 1970s, there has been tension between the advocates of the magical pointy-clickety GUI and the clickety-clackety command-line interface (CLI). Part of it is stylistic… GUI’s are easier, faster, more productive. Part of it is ego… CLI’s require more expertise and are endlessly […]
For those who are always seeking FREE technical learning opportunities, the calendar webpage of the Rocky Mountain Oracle Users Group (RMOUG) is a great resource to bookmark and check back on weekly. RMOUG volunteers compile notifications of webinars, meetings, and meetups from the internet and post them here for everyone to use. The information technology […]
After working for a variety of companies in the 1980s, after working for Oracle in the 1990s, after trying (and failing) to build a company with friends at the turn of the century, and after more than a decade working as an independent consultant in this new century, I found myself in a professional dilemma […]
What is the Oracle ACE program? The Oracle ACE program is a community advocacy program for Oracle technology evangelists and enthusiasts, sponsored by and managed by Oracle Corporation. As stated on the ACE overview page at “http://oracle.com/technetwork/community/oracle-ace”, it is both a network as well as a resource for everyone in the Oracle community. It is […]
This is a re-post I originally made on the ODTUG website on 17-Jan 2013 at the beginning of my two-year term on the board of directors… This past weekend, I attended my first face-to-face Board of Directors meeting with ODTUG. Monty Latiolais, current president of ODTUG, asked me to let him know if there was […]
It’s been over a year since I leapt into the void. OK, more than a little melodramatic. In many respects, I was leaping from the void by joining a promising and exciting startup company like Delphix. Business was still brisk as an independent consultant at EvDBT, but for the past several years, I was experiencing […]
There is a post from a good friend at Oracle entitled “Will the REAL SnapClone functionality please stand up?” and, as well-written and technically rich as the post is, I am particularly moved to comment on the very last and conclusive sentence in the post… So with all of that, why would you look at […]
On the Saturday before the Oracle OpenWorld 2014 conference started, I had the added bonus of finding out that the Data Center Journal had published my article on how data virtualization leads to greener data centers. Hooray! Unfortunately, I recently learned that Data Center Journal has gone defunct, so my posted article no longer exists. […]