The support of Women in Technology at Oracle is a fine line and a careful argument. I receive between 20-30 communications in any week on the topic and I think the challenge as I speak to people is the importance of education over persecution. I’m at DOAG, (Deutschland Oracle User Group) conference this week and it’s common for someone to ask to speak to me on the topic of WIT. These valuable conversations have lead to deep reflection of what it means to offer support and how we can improve diversity in the Oracle community….then again, it may just be…
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So this week I’m back on the other coast, Raleigh, NC at ECO17 after last week in Seattle. I’ve switched from SQL Server to Oracle and we won’t discuss how many times I had to correct myself as I said, “transaction log” instead of “archive log” and pointed west instead of east for the ocean…My expression at times was similar to Obi Wan’s- For the next month, I’ll be sticking to the Oracle side, as this is going to be a crazy month for travel. My two sessions at ECO this week were well attended and I really enjoyed talking…
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This week I had the opportunity to present at Microsoft’s Pass Summit, which was one of two events I had on my list for this year, (the other was Oracle Open World.) Although I’m still learning about all the events on the Microsoft side, unlike Oracle, where there’s one, massive event in San Francisco each fall, Microsoft has split their annual events into three to focus on each audience. In less than two months, there was MS Ignite in Florida, focused on tomorrow’s technology, IT Dev Connections, geared towards development and then this week, Pass Summit, for the Data Platform…
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Just in case you wondered, if you do a search for #ThanksODC and leave the “C” off, you get a lot of stuff on the boy band, One Direction…. You can thank me later for that warning…. The sheer amount of thank you posts for Oracle Development Community Appreciation Day, (#ThanksODC) and the historical hashtag for reference, #ThanksOTN are impressive, but I waited a day on mine so I could continue the support for the Oracle Women in Technology, (and @ORAWit). Here are the ThankODC blog posts from the great women of the Oracle Community! I’m going to start with…
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So now that I’m finished just taking it easy, playing hooky from Oracle Open World and Oak Table World…uh, yeah…. I get to recover from emergency surgery for another week and while I’ve been busy writing slide content, building out new abstracts for the new year, along with content for a couple books, I’m finishing chapters on. My ebook is about to come out for DevOps for the DBA: The Next Frontier, (I’ll be giving a few hard copies away at events in the next couple of months, but you can get a free copy at Delphix.com soon!) This is…
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Somehow I’ve made it a pastime of pointing out how many times women are passed up for recognition while men are promoted around them. Its not that the men were identified as better or worse than women, but just about how heavily we scrutinize and limit women while everyone else passes them by. Now I’m going to ask the Oracle folks to not take this personally, but hopefully take it as a call to arms, but I know how we love to shoot the messenger. Hopefully you already know that I will have no qualms about deleting abusive or threatening…
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The network has often been viewed as “no man’s land” for the DBA- Our tools may identify network latency, but rarely does it go into any details, designating the network outside our jurisdiction. As we work through data gravity, i.e. the weight of data, the pull of applications, services, etc. to data sources, we have to inspect what connects it to the data and slows it down. Yes, the network. We can’t begin to investigate the network without spending some time on Shannon’s law, also known as Shannon-Hartley Theorem. The equation relates to the maximum capacity (transmission bit rate) that…
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As we come upon Oracle Open World at the end of the month, I’m busy with a number of events and tasks. I spoke at the Microservices, Containers and DevOps Summit in Denver yesterday and will be traveling to San Diego, California to speak at SQL Saturday #661 this weekend. I love the Microsoft events, but not sure my family loves the loss of my weekend time with them half as much. At the end of the month, Delphix will be publishing my DevOps book based off my series of blog posts and webinars on DevOps and the DBA. It…
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I planned on finishing up and publishing a different post today, but after a number of conversations with DBAs in the community, this topic took precedence. Yesterday the above announcement came out with the Oracle earnings call, along with the following: “In a couple of weeks, we will announce the world’s first fully autonomous database cloud service,” said Oracle Chairman and CTO, Larry Ellison. “Based on machine learning, the latest version of Oracle is a totally automated “self-driving” system that does not require human beings to manage or tune the database. Using AI to eliminate most sources of human error…
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It was a really busy summer and ended with me returning after a week of vacation in Singapore. What should I do after a 17hr flight and jet lag? Two webinars and a SQL Saturday event! What better way to get over jet lag and get my game back on and just jump back in! I started out by having a webinar this morning on “DBA to DevOps to DataOps- the Revolution.” I had a feeling with the jet lag, I’d be done faster than I’d hoped, but with the amount of questions from the over 400 attendees, it was…
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Data gravity and the friction it causes within the development cycle is an incredibly obvious problem in my eyes. Data gravity suffers from the Von Newmann Bottleneck. It’s a basic limitation on how fast computers can be. Pretty simple, but states that the speed of where data resides and where it’s processed is the limiting factor in computing speed. OLAP, DSS and VLDB DBAs are constantly in battle with this challenge. How much data is being consumed in a process, how much must be brought from disk and will the processing required to create the results end up “spilling” to…
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Delphix Engineering and Support are pretty amazing folks. They continue to pursue for solutions, no matter how much time it takes and the complex challenges they’re faced with supporting heterogenous environments, hardware configurations and customer needs. This post is in support of the effort from our team that resulted in stability to a previously impacted Solaris 11.2 cluster configuration. The research, patching, testing and then resulting certification from Oracle was a massive undertaking from our team and I hope this information serves the community, but in no way is recommended by Delphix. It’s just what was done to resolve the…
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There was a great post by Noel Yuhanna on how he deems the number of DBAs required in a database environment by size and number of databases. This challenge has created a situation where data platforms are searching for ways to remove this roadblock and eliminate the skills needed to manage the database tier. I’ve been a DBA for almost 2 decades now, (“officially” as my beginning date with an official title and my years experience differ by a couple years…) When I started, we commonly used import and export features to move data from one data source to another.…
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Even though my social media profile is pretty available for Twitter and Linked in, I’m significantly conservative with other personal and financial data online. The reversal of the Internet Privacy Rule, (I’ve linked to a Fox news link, as there was so much negative news on this one…) had everyone pretty frustrated, but then we need to look at security of personal information, especially financial data and as we can see by security breaches so far in 2017, we all have reason to be concerned. The EU has taken the opposite approach with the right to be forgotten, along with…
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In my latest blog post on the Delphix site, I continue my conversation with why DevOps is the next step for DBAs and how DBAs can embrace this next step in their evolution. This is an extensive series of blog posts, (four so far) to be followed by an ebook, a podcast and two webinars. One is to be announced soon from Oracle called, “The DBA Diaries” and the other will be a from Delphix, titled, “The Revolution: From Databases and DevOps to DataOps“. The goal for all of this is to ease transition for the Database community as the…
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It’s finally time to upgrade our Linux Target! OK, so we’re not going to upgrade the way a DBA would normally upgrade a database server when we’re working with virtualization. So far, we’ve completed: 1. Updating our instances so that we’ll have a GUI interface if we’ll need one. 2. Installed Oracle on the Linux Source and upgraded our Dsource database to 12c Now we’re done with our Linux Source and onto our Linux Target. Install and Configure VNC and Oracle We’ll run through and install and configure the VNC Viewer requirements just like we did in Part I…
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I’ve been asked what it takes to be a successful evangelist and realizing that what makes one successful at it, is often like holding sand in your hands- no matter how tightly you hold your fists, it’s difficult to contain the grains. The term evangelist is one that either receives very positive or very negative responses. I’m not a fan of the term, but no matter if you use this term or call them advocates, representative, influencer- it doesn’t matter, they are essential to the business, product or technology that they become the voice for. Those that I view as…
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This is the Part III in a four part series on how to: Enable VNC Viewer access on Amazon EC2 hosts. Install DB12c and upgrade a Dsource for Delphix from 11g to 12c, (12.1) Update the Delphix Configuration to point to the newly upgraded 12c database and the new Oracle 12c home. Install DB12c and upgrade target VDBs for Delphix residing on AWS to 12.1 from the newly upgraded source. In Part II, we finished upgrading the Dsource database, but now we need to get it configured on the Delphix side. Log into the Delphix Admin console to make the…