There are more configurations for AWS than there are fish in the sea, but as the rush of folks arrive to test out the incredibly cool AWS Trial for Delphix, I’ll add my rendition of what to look for to know you’re AWS setup is prepped to successfully deploy. The EC2 Dashboard View After you’ve selected your location, set up your security user/group and key pairs, there’s a quick way to see, (at least high level) if you’re ready to deploy the AWS Trial to the zone in question. Go to your EC2 Dashboard and to the location, (Zone) that…
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Ah, yes, it’s that RMOUG Training Days time of the year again! As a techie, I didn’t put a lot of time into my slides when I first started presenting, thinking I’d simply dazzle them with my amazing knowledge. What I found is that slide deck skills don’t just help your presentation, they help you tell the story better, which should be the goal of every presenter. No matter how technical we are, we most likely haven’t had any formal Powerpoint training and as I’ve been upping my “PPT skills” this last year, I thought I’d share with the rest of the…
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Delphix focuses on virtualizing non-production environments, easing the pressure on DBAs, resources and budget, but there is a second use case for product that we don’t discuss nearly enough. Protection from data loss. Jamie Pope, one of the great guys that works in our pre-sales engineering group, sent Adam and I an article on one of those situations that makes any DBA, (or an entire business, for that matters) cringe. GitLab.com was performing some simple maintenance and someone deleted the wrong directory, removing over 300G of production data from their system. It appears they were first going to use PostgreSQL…
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I’ve been at Delphix for just over six months now. In that time, I was working with a number of great people on a number of initiatives surrounding competitive, the company roadmap and some new initiatives. With the introduction of our CEO, Chris Cook, new CMO, Michelle Kerr and other pivotal positions within this growing company, it became apparent that we’d be redirecting our focus on Delphix’s message and connections within the community. I was still quite involved in the community, even though my speaking had been trimmed down considerably with the other demands at Delphix. Even though I wasn’t submitting abstracts to…
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I don’t want to alarm you, but there’s a new Delphix trial on AWS! It uses your own AWS account and with a simple set up, allows you to deploy a trial Delphix environment. Yes, you hear me right- just with a couple steps, you could have your own setup to work with Delphix! There’s documentation to make it simple to deploy, simple to understand and then use cases for individuals determined by their focus, (IT Architect, Developer, Database Administrator, etc.) This was a huge undertaking and I’m incredibly proud of Delphix to be offering this to the community! So…
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So you’ve deployed targets with Delphix on AWS and you receive the following error: It’s only a warning, but it states that you’re default of 87380 is below the recommended second value for the ipv4.tcp.rmem property. Is this really an issue and do you need to resolve it? As usual, the answer is “it depends” and its all about on how important performance is to you. What is net.ipv4.tcp.rmem? To answer this question, we need to understand network performance. I’m no network admin, so I am far from an expert on this topic, but as I’ve worked more often in…
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So Brent Ozar’s group of geeks did something that I highly support- a survey of data professional’s salaries. Anyone who knows me, knows I live by data and I’m all about transparency. The data from the survey is available for download from the site and they’re promoting app developers to download the Excel spreadsheet of the raw data and work with it. Now I’m a bit busy with work as the Technical Intelligence Manager at Delphix and a little conference that I’m the director for, called RMOUG Training Days, which is less than a month from now, but I couldn’t resist…
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On the first day with Delphix, I provisioned with glee, an IT Manager Happy. On the second day with Delphix, I provisioned with glee, two SAP ASE and an IT Manager Happy. On the third day with Delphix, I provisioned with glee, three Oracle Databases, two SAP ASE and an IT Manager Happy. On the fourth day with Delphix, I provisioned with glee, four EBS Clones, three Oracle Databases, two SAP ASE and an IT Manager Happy. On the fifth day with Delphix, I provisioned with glee… Five Cloud Migrations! Four EBS Clones, three Oracle Databases, two SAP ASE and…
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I thought I’d do something on Oracle this week, but then Microsoft made an announcement that was like an early Christmas present- SQL Server release for Linux. I work for a company that supports Oracle and SQL Server, so I wanted to know how *real* this release was. I first wanted to test it out on a new build and as they recommend, along as link to an Ubuntu install, I created a new VM and started from there- Ubuntu Repository Challenge There were a couple packages that were missing until the repository is updated to pull universe by adding…
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I’ll be attending my very first Pass Summit next week and I’m really psyched! Delphix is a major sponsor at the event, so I’ll get to be at the booth and will be rocking some amazing new Delphix attire, (thank you to my boss for understanding that a goth girl has to keep up appearances and letting me order my own Delphix ware.) Its an amazing event and for those of you who are my Oracle peeps, wondering what Summit is, think Oracle Open World for the Microsoft SQL Server expert folks. I was a strong proponent of immersing in…
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The topic of DevOps and and Agile are everywhere, but how often do you hear Source Control thrown into the mix? Not so much in public, but behind the closed doors of technical and development meetings when Agile is in place, it’s a common theme. When source control isn’t part of the combination, havoc ensues and a lot of DBAs working nights on production with broken hearts. Control Freaks So what is source control and why is it such an important part of DevOps? The official definition of source control is: A component of software configuration management, version control, also…
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Along with the deep learning I’ve been allowed to do about data virtualization, I’ve learned a great deal about Test Data Management. Since doing so, I’ve started to do some informal surveys of the DBAs I run into and ask them, “How do you get data to your testers so that they can perform tests?” “How do you deliver code to different environments?” As a basic skill for a database administrator, we’re taught how to use export and import tools, along with cloning options to deliver data where its needed for various development and in succession, testing activities. If DBAs didn’t…
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Oracle Open World 2016 is almost here…where did the summer go?? With this upon us, there is something you attendees need and that’s to know about what awesome sessions are at Oracle Open World from the Delphix team! I gave my options up as is the tragedy of switching companies in late spring from Oracle, but you can catch some great content on how to reach the new level in data management with Tim Gorman, (my phenomenal hubby, duh!) and Brian Bent from Delphix: Barriers to Oracle Database in the Cloud [UGF5049] Tim Gorman, Technical Consultant, Delphix Sunday, Sep 18, 3:30…
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I’ve been busy reading and testing everything I can with Delphix, whenever I get a chance. I’m incredibly fascinated by copy data management and the idea of doing this with Exadata is nothing new, as Oracle has it’s own version with sparse copy. The main challenge is that Exadata’s version of this is kind of clunky and really doesn’t have the management user interface that Delphix offers. There is a lot of disk that comes with an Exadata, not just CPU, network bandwidth and memory. Now you can’t utilize offloading with a virtualized database, but you may not be interested…
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While chatting on slack the other day, one of my peers asked if I’d seen that ESG Global had done a write up on Veritas Velocity. Velocity is a product that won’t be available until the end of 2016 and is considered “Alpha”. I was surprised that anyone allowed to participate in Alpha was able to publish a description on the product, but that’s not my call to make. What I found interesting about the article, written by ESG, discusses how Veritas Velocity, “… is combining its sophisticated approaches to data management with its broader ability to deliver superior data protection and information availability…
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I’ve been involved in two data masking projects in my time as a database administrator. One was to mask and secure credit card numbers and the other was to protect personally identifiable information, (PII) for a demographics company. I remember the pain, but it was better than what could have happened if we hadn’t protected customer data…. Times have changed and now, as part of a company that has a serious market focus on data masking, my role has time allocated to research on data protection, data masking and understanding the technical requirements. Reasons to Mask The percentage of companies…
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So some unknowing fool gave me full access to a fridge of Starbucks caffeinated beverages, which should be against the law in this fine country. Needless to say, my ability to type approximately 180wpm has offered me the opportunity to catch up and blog about what it’s like almost a month in employed with Delphix. In just the last two weeks, a number of conference sessions have come about and events that I plan on being part of. Some of them are well known, some aren’t and some require a bit of promotion to make them even greater than they…
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I’ve been going through some SERIOUS training in just over a week. This training has successfully navigated the “Three I’s”, as in its been Interesting, Interactive and Informative. The offerings are very complete and the knowledge gained is limitless. I’d also like to send a shout out to Steve Karam, Leighton Nelson and everyone else at Delphix who’s had a hand in designing the training, both for new employees and for the those working with our hands on labs. I’ve had a chance to work with both and they’re just far above anything I’ve seen anywhere else. The Challenge of…