We’ve all been watching numerous companies view value in bypassing the Database Administrator and other critical IT roles in an effort to get IT faster to the cloud. It may look incredibly attractive to sales, but the truth of it is, it can be like setting up land mines in your own yard. Having the right people in the right roles, doing the right tasks is essential to having a complete cloud deployment. Easy access without any checks and balances is just asking for trouble, which I am quickly realizing as I discuss this topic with more folks on my…
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I did a couple great sessions yesterday for the awesome Dallas Oracle User Group, (DOUG.) It was the first time I did my thought leadership piece on Making Sense of the Cloud and it was a great talk, with some incredible questions from the DOUG attendees! This points me to a great [older] post on things IT can do to help guarantee tech projects are more successful. DevOps is a standard in most modern IT shops and DBAs are expected to find ways to be part of this valuable solution. If you inspect the graph, displaying the value of different projects…
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For over a year I’ve been researching cloud migration best practices. Consistently there was one red flag that trips me that I’m viewing recommended migration paths. No matter what you read, just about all of them include the following high level steps: As we can see from above, the scope of the project is identified, requirements laid out and a project team is allocated. The next step in the project is to choose one or more clouds, choose the first environments to test out in the cloud, along with security concerns and application limitations. DBAs are tested repeatedly as they continue to…
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Azure is the second most popular cloud platform to date, so it’s where Delphix naturally is going to support second on our road to the cloud. As I start to work with the options for us deploying Delphix, there are complexities I need to educate myself on in Azure. As we’re just starting out, there’s a lot to learn and a lot of automation we can take advantage of. It’s an excellent time for me to get up to speed with this cloud platform, so hopefully everyone will learn right along with me! We’ll be using Terraform to deploy to…
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Swingbench is a one of the best choices for easy loads on a database. I wanted to use it against the SH sample schema I loaded into my Oracle Source database and I haven’t used Swingbench outside of the command line quite a while back, (my databases seem to always come with a load on them!) so it was time to update my Swingbench skills and catch up with the user interface. Thanks to Dominic Giles for keeping the download, features and documentation so well maintained. After adding the application rights to run on my Macbook Pro, I was impressed by…
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There are a lot of people and companies starting to push the same old myth regarding the death of the database administrator role in companies. On the Oracle side, it started with release Oracle 7 and now is proposed with the introduction of cloud. Hopefully my post will help ease the mind of those out there with concerns. There are a number of OBVIOUS reasons this is simply not true, but I’m going to write a few posts over the next year on some of the less obvious ones that will ensure DBAs stay employed for the long haul. The…
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I’ve been discussing for years about the importance of network to database performance, especially once I started working on VLDBs, (Very Large Databases) but its a topic that often is disregarded. Now that I’m working more and more in the cloud, it’s become more evident the importance of the network to our survival. For each and every cloud project I’ve been involved in, there is evidently going to be multiple challenges that turn to the network administrator for a solution. I don’t blame the administrator in any way when he becomes exasperated by our requests. As it is my solemn…
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The sales, support and technical teams were brought into the Denver Tech Center office to do some advanced training in Hybrid Cloud. There were many take-aways from the days we spent in the office, (which is saying a lot- most of you likely know how much I hate working anywhere but from home… :)) and I thought I would share a bit of this information with those that are aching for more details on this new and impressive offering from release 5. If you’re new to Hybrid Cloud and want to know the high level info, please see my blog…