Collaborate 2010 in Las Vegas starts April 17th, and Blue Gecko has 2 speakers presenting. Jeremiah Wilton will present “High Performance Oracle 11g in the Amazon Cloud,” and I will present, “E-Business Suite in the Amazon Cloud.” More information on the papers and presentations later, but for now, if you haven’t … [Read more...]
April Seattle Apps Tech Group Networking Event
We’re going to change it up a little bit and have a networking / social event. No presentation this time – just a chance to meet up with colleagues in the area for some food, drink, and conversation. The location is TBD, but will be somewhere downtown – we’re working on securing a spot. Please send this out to anyone you … [Read more...]
Seattle Oracle Technology Solutions Fair!
Come see Blue Gecko at the Oracle Technology Solutions Fair! Blue Gecko will have a booth at the 2010 Oracle Technology Solutions Fair at the Fairmont Olympic Hotel, 411 University Street, Seattle, WA on March 3, 2010. Come see Jeremiah, Rick, Chuck, Ken, and a bunch of other Oracle Geckos (heck, it's a block away from our Seattle office!) Don't … [Read more...]
New website launch
If you're reading this on RSS, please drop everything (immediately) and check out our updated web site! If you're reading this post on the web site, well, you probably noticed already. :) … [Read more...]
Blue Gecko is an official Drizzle sponsor
We're pleased to announce that Blue Gecko is providing hosting and some technical support for Drizzle! Drizzle is a community-driven project based on the popular MySQL DBMS that is focused on MySQL's original goals of ease-of-use, reliability and performance. For more information go to http://drizzle.org. … [Read more...]
Jeremiah Wilton published in the latest Oak Table press book!
"Expert Oracle Practices: Oracle Database Administration from the Oak Table" was just released and it features our own Jeremiah Wilton's thoughts on running Oracle on Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2). As an official Amazon Web Services partner, Blue Gecko has adopted EC2 as a primary database hosting platform, and Jeremiah is leading the charge. … [Read more...]
Blue Gecko named Amazon Web Services partner
Blue Gecko has been officially recognized as an Amazon Web Services partner! Blue Gecko was an early adopter of the AWS platform for databases and database-backed applications. By deploying Oracle, Oracle E-Business Suite and MySQL infrastructures in the cloud, Blue Gecko leverages AWS to substantially improve customer IT flexibility and reduce … [Read more...]
New presentation: Deriving Optimal Configurations Using 11g Database Replay
Jeremiah Wilton’s presentation shows how to use Oracle 11g Real Application Testing to quantify effect of system and database configuration changes. As an example, he uses Real Application Testing to validate the Automatic Advisor recommendations, and uncovers some interesting results. Check out the presentation on our whitepaper page. … [Read more...]
Breaking Oracle
Presented by: Jeremiah Wilton, Blue Gecko Jeremiah’s patented Breaking Oracle seminar – a one-hour condensed version of a full-day class – was again a huge hit. To a packed room, Jeremiah mercilessly rained spins, hangs, corruption, and a variety of other Oracle failures and disasters on a poor, unsuspecting test 11hg database, then demonstrated … [Read more...]
Blue Gecko featured at Oracle Technology Solutions Fair
Blue Gecko has been recognized as a key Oracle partner, and will participate with the Seattle Oracle database team at the Oracle Technology Solutions Fair. Jeremiah Wilton and JJ Ecker will be on site to answer questions about the latest database features, tuning, and general Oracle database questions, so please register for the fair today and … [Read more...]
Blue Gecko Announces Free Oracle Database Performance Reviews
SEATTLE, WA--(Marketwire - March 31, 2009) - Seattle-based remote DBA services company Blue Gecko, Inc. (http://www.bluegecko.dk), is now offering free performance evaluations. The promotion will extend through 6/30/2009. Blue Gecko President Chuck Edwards cited the importance of keeping databases in tune, especially now that so many people are … [Read more...]
New presentation: Simulating failures for testing and diagnostic practice
In this entertaining presentation, Jeremiah Wilton demonstrates creative ways to induce Oracle failures with the objective of learning how to detect, assess and diagnose problems. Some of the self-induced failures are quite amusing, and will allow the reader to have some fun with their DBA friends. Check out the presentation on our whitepaper … [Read more...]
Our own Sarah Novotny is Seattle’s “Geek of the Week!”
Sarah Novotny is featured in the Seattle PI as the "Geek of the Week." We're all quite pleased with the well-seserved recognition, and hope you have a minute to check out the article. Leave a comment and let her know what you think! Nice work, Sarah! … [Read more...]
Seattle-area Oracle Applications Tech Group
Announcing the first meeting of the Seattle Oracle Applications Technology Group! This group will be dedicated to knowledge sharing and learning between Oracle Applications Technology professionals in the Puget Sound area. I'm hopeful we can get a regular group of Apps DBAs, developers, Apps admins, and other people connected with E-Business … [Read more...]
Blue Gecko acquires ORA-600 Consulting
Seattle, WA (March 19, 2009)—Seattle-based remote DBA services company Blue Gecko, Inc. (http://www.bluegecko.dk), as part of its strategy to enhance emergency support and education offerings, announced that it has acquired Seattle-based ORA-600 Consulting, a premier provider of Oracle administration, recovery and education services. ORA-600 … [Read more...]