Upcoming Conferences for Fall 2024
The short summer break is over, and conference treadmill is about to get underway again. I have a few things
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PASS Summit: Journey to Management with Chris Yates
Along with presenting the keynote at SQL Saturday Oregon this weekend, I will be taking the SQL Train up to
Read MoreSilk Sync, August 2023
Here is what’s going on for me at Silk for the month of August! I’ve served in the role as
Read MoreStabilizing Migrations to the Cloud with SQL Baselines
I had a customer who needed to know how to retain performance after migrating to the cloud for SQL execution
Read MoreChatGPT- Building Out Oracle with Templates and Ansible for a DataGuard Environment
This is a continuation of the evolution of AI with ChatGPT and how much it can be leveraged, allowing me
Read MoreThe Well-Architected Framework for Oracle is NOW LIVE!
*Previously posted on the Data Architecture Blog in the Microsoft Tech Community. The Well-Architected Framework for Oracle has been published!
Read MoreIOPs is Overrated
*Previously posted on the Data Architecture Blog for the Tech Community. IOPs is Overrated, yeah, I said it. How many
Read MoreAddressing Oracle Redo Latency with Ultra Disk
*Previously posted on the Microsoft Data Architecture Blog for the Tech Community. An enterprise cloud, like Azure, handles an incredible
Read MoreRecommendations for Oracle 19c Patches in Azure
*Previously posted on the Microsoft Data Architecture Blog for the Tech community. Oracle 19c is the terminal release for Oracle
Read MoreThe Importance of Proximity Placement Groups for Oracle multi-tier systems in Azure
*Previously posted on the Data Architecture Blog for the Microsoft Tech Community. Oracle is a unique, high IO, workload beast,
Read MoreUsing Oracle AWR and Infra Info to Give Customers Complete Solutions to Performance Problems
*Previously posted on the Microsoft Data Architecture Blog for the Microsoft Tech Community. One of the best allocations of an
Read MoreOracle Licensing in Azure for Virtual Machines- Sales vs. Reality
*Posted previously on the Data Architecture Blog for the Microsoft Tech Community. This post will address an ongoing licensing myth
Read MoreTHE White Paper- Recommended Practices for Oracle on Azure IaaS
*Previously posted on the Microsoft Data Architecture Blog on the Microsoft Tech Community This white paper provides guidance from beginning
Read MoreUnderstanding AWR Data for Exadata to Azure IaaS Migrations, Part I
*Previously posted on the Microsoft Data Architecture Blog for the Tech Community High IO workloads in Azure are a topic
Read MoreConstrained vCPU and Oracle Licensing in Azure
*Previously posted on the Microsoft Data Architecture Blog on the Tech Community. Numerous times I’ve experienced misunderstanding on licensing around constrained
Read MoreHow to Save on Oracle Core Licensing on Azure Cloud
*Previously posted on the Microsoft Tech Community Data Architecture Blog. I get a lot of questions from our field on
Read MoreOracle on Azure- Unix to Linux and Options
*Previously posted on Microsoft Data Architecture Blog in the Tech Community Linux really does make the world go around. I
Read MoreOracle Workloads on Azure- IO is King!
*Previously Posted on the Microsoft Tech Community Data Architecture Blog If you’re migrating your data estate to Azure, as is
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