Most people know I like to do things the hard way… 🙂 When it comes to learning things, there’s often no better way to get a strong understanding than to have to take something apart and put it back together. I wanted to use swingbench on my AWS deployment and needed the Sales History, (SH) sample schema. I don’t have an interface to perform the installation via the configuration manager, so I was going to install it manually. Surprise, the scripts in the $ORACLE_HOME/demo/schema/sh directory were missing. There are a couple options to solve this dilemma. Mine was to first get the…
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I receive about 20-30 messages a week from women in the industry. I take my role in the Oracle community as a role model for women in technology quite seriously and I’ve somehow ended up speaking up a number of times, upon request from different groups. Although its not the first time the topics come up, I was asked last week for some recommendations on Oracle’s CEO, Safra Catz and her opportunity to be on President Elect Trump’s transition team. I wanted to ask your opinion about Safra not taking a leave of absence to help with Trump’s transition team? I…
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How was 2016 for me? It was a surprisingly busy year- blogging, speaking, working and doing. I posted just under 100 posts to my blog this year. After I changed jobs, the “3 per week” quickly declined to “4 per month” after I was inundated with new challenges and the Delphix learning curve. That will change for 2017, along with some new initiatives that are in the works, so stay tuned. For 2016, the most popular posts and pages for my website followed a similar trend from the last year. My emulator for RPI is still a popular item and…
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The only thing that remains constant is change. ~Heralitus This often is more apparent in technology than anywhere else. Even with a group of Oracle evangelists and enthusiasts like the ACE program, which offers the opportunity for peers to recognize those that contribute to the community and help make it a better place. I’ve [often quietly] assisted many around me to find their path into the ACE program, even when I was an employee at Oracle and even now that I have ACE alumni status. It was once a rare thing to have this status, but I was also considered…
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OK, so I’m all over the map, (technology wise) right now. One day I’m working with data masking on Oracle, the next it’s SQL Server or MySQL, and the next its DB2. After almost six months of this, the chaos of feeling like a fast food drive thru with 20 lanes open at all times is starting to make sense and my brain is starting to find efficient ways to siphon all this information into the correct “lanes”. No longer is the lane that asked for a hamburger getting fries with hot sauce… 🙂 One of the areas that I’ve…
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This is a living document that I will continue to update and will add new database platforms to as I go along in my career. I spend a lot of time translating database platforms I’ve worked in for all tiers of the technical business. It just seems natural that we might need a location on the web where that information is kept. I’ll add some diagrams at a later date, but we’ll start with a simple spreadsheet of common terms and questions and how each of the terms or tasks in Oracle, (the current #1 RDBMS) translates in other platforms.…
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After my AWR Warehouse session at DOAG in Nuremberg, Germany last week, an attendee asked me if he really needed to use trace files anymore with the value provided by AWR, (Automatic Workload Repository) and ASH, (Active Session History.) I responded that trace files were incredibly valuable and should never be discounted. To use an analogy, when I was 22 years old, and entered a doctor’s office missing a small percentage of my visual field after an apparent migraine, doctors used a number of different “tools” at their disposal in an attempt to diagnose what had happened. They first started…
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I’ve been a bit busy traveling and speaking, but I wanted to discuss the great events I’ve been lucky enough to be part of the last couple weeks. Indianapolis Oracle User Group I spoke at the INOUG back on September 17th. The user group in Indiana is incredibly welcoming and I had a great time with the wonderful attendees for my three back-to-back sessions. We discussed AWR Warehouse, ASH and AWR Mining and a new session on Optimization for EM12c and the Hybrid Cloud. East Coast Oracle Conference September 21st-23rd was my first visit to the great city of Raleigh,…
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Happy Birthday to me! So for my birthday, I give a present to you… As I want all DBAs to sleep better at night, here are the top ten features you can use in Enterprise Manager Cloud Control to offer a good night’s rest instead of during the day at your desk… 🙂 1. Disable the Default Rule Sets Shipped with Cloud Control. Yes, you heard me. I believe you should use them as a starting point or an example, but don’t put them into production. These were examples set by development to see all that you could be notified…
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I’m glad to be home after a couple weeks in Europe, speaking at both the Harmony 15 conference in beautiful Tallinn, Estonia and then as a keynote speaker at AOUG in lovely Vienna, Austria the week after. I get to pretty much stay close to home for the next two months, traveling only a bit, but I want to go over the upcoming conferences that I’ll be speaking at the next couple months. July 23rd, 2015, Georgia Oracle User Group’s Quarterly Tech Symposium I’ll be speaking, along with my peer, Loc Nhan at the event. I’m looking forward to seeing…
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I’m at HotSos Symposium 2015 speaking this week, so thought I would blog about the results of the conference I’m the director of and that finished up just two weeks ago. I’m not admitting to being overwhelmed by OEM questions here, as I’m rather enjoying it. I love seeing folks so into Enterprise Manager and look forward to more! Keep the ideas for more blog posts coming! I’ll write on all these great topics in upcoming posts. Rocky Mountain Oracle User Group, (RMOUG) Training Days 2015 is over for another year, but the conference is a task that encompasses approximately…
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As many bloggers and sites do this time of the year, here is my review of 2014. It was a great year and it was a lot of fun, as well as educational reviewing all the data. DBAKevlar Blog Busiest Day on my Blog: Posts this year: Most popular post of 2014: Easy EM12c Agent Deployment on Windows Windows installations are still a huge mystery and Cygwin still frustrates a lot of people, sometimes, me included. This post describing the easiest deployment method has continued to be my most popular post. I admit that I’m not too thrilled that it…