A Year with Redgate, A Lifetime with Oracle
I was caught off guard last week when the “Congratulations on your work anniversary!” messages started rolling in on LinkedIn.
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HammerDB and PostgreSQL- Part I
There’s a large influx of PostgreSQL databases coming into the market. It only makes sense to use this robust open-source
Read MoreNew SQL Server and Oracle Cloud White Papers on Github!
I’ve been pretty busy with work and travel, but I finally got an official Silk Github repository to publish a
Read MoreOracle Database Service on Azure
First things first- The following opinions expressed in this post are my own and in no way connected to my
Read MoreOracle and Cloud Wars
I just finished an interview with a friend for a blog post where he was surprised how differently I was
Read MoreGoing Old School with Optimization Parameters in Oracle 19c
I had an interesting opportunity with a complex Oracle environment that exemplified the challenges of technical debt and dependency on
Read MoreHammerDB CLI for Oracle on Azure
Disclaimer: I’m not a big fan of benchmark data. I find it doesn’t provide us as much value in the
Read MoreAzure IO Performance for the RDBMS DBA- Part I
With my upcoming session on “Migrating Oracle Workloads to Azure IaaS” this week at PASS Virtual Summit 2020, I wanted
Read More2020 PASS Summit and the Azure SQL Championship
I barely have enough time to breathe let along blog these days, but lucky for me, I am taking some
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Prepping an Oracle Database for a Cloud Migration
There’s so much I need to get written down these days, but there’s only so many hours in a day
Read MoreTwo Years at Microsoft
This is commonly the time at any company I discuss how I’m about to move on… Nope, not planning on
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World Backup Day- Backing up an Oracle Database using RMAN to Azure Blob Storage
A DBA is only as good as their last backup…or more so, their last recovery. To celebrate #WorldBackupDay on Twitter,
Read MoreCreate a Simple Oracle VM on Azure IaaS
Use the following shell script to create your Oracle VM. I chose the following parameters to create mine: Using Azure
Read MoreLocating Oracle Enterprise Linux Images for Azure
Just like with other UI’s, the Azure portal may not show you the wealth of offerings that can be found
Read MoreThe Layman’s Term Guide to AWR for Microsoft- Part I
As often as I use the Automatic Workload Repository(AWR) data in my day-to-day job at Microsoft, I think most can
Read MoreRAC on Azure- Link to Microsoft Tech Blog
Some folks stated they were having trouble finding this, so I’m posting a link here for the blog I wrote
Read MoreUnreal Load Testing in the Cloud
Load testing as part of a cloud migration project is expected and should be built into the requirements. The goal
Read MoreExadata Workloads to Azure, Part II
In my last post, I discussed some of the unique challenges migrating Oracle workloads from Exadata to Azure posed. Engineered
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