Openworld 2010, despite the supposedly lagging economy, had record attendance again this year. No doubt this was the result of Oracle acquiring something like fourteen companies since last year, including Sun in 2009. The crowds were thick, divided about evenly between geeks in badly-fitting vendor t-shirts and slick sales-side hustlers with … [Read more...]
A Cloud over San Francisco for OpenWorld 2010
Oracle OpenWorld 2010 is just bursting with big cloud-related announcements this week. As I prepare to present on the Amazon cloud at OOW2010 on Thursday (http://bit.ly/aSKdIQ), I thought I would highlight two of the biggest cloud-related announcements of the week. Exalogic We all know about Exadata, Oracle’s hardware-based storage-optimized … [Read more...]
Blue Gecko recommends the University of Washington Oracle Certificate program
At Blue Gecko, we believe that cultivating strong technical contributors is key to our own and our customers’ success. That’s why we are proud to be a part of one of our region’s premier Oracle educational programs: The University of Washington Certificate in Oracle Database … [Read more...]
Meet Blue Gecko Face to Face at NWOUG 2010 Conference!
Chuck Edwards, JJ Ecker, Jeremiah Wilton, Rick Harwood and Ken Safranek will be attending the 2010 NWOUG Conference in Portland, OR. Stop by the Blue Gecko booth at the Business Exhibition or attend Jeremiah’s presentation and learn about "Database Deathmatch: Oracle vs. SQL Server". We look forward to seeing you at the conference. … [Read more...]
Oracle Processor Licensing on Amazon EC2
Without completely copying everything our Oracle on EC2 Licensing page, I wanted to provide a quick overview of Oracle Processor licensing for EC2. Oracle can be licensed on Amazon EC2, but we have to translate processor use to core use to determine licensing costs. Where bare-metal processor licensing uses a CPU socket to define a processor, EC2 … [Read more...]
Oracle Certification vs Oracle Support
At Collaborate this week, I received a lot of questions regarding support and certification for Oracle on Amazon Web Services. After unraveling a few of these questions, I realized that the difference between "certification" and "support" has become quite confused. I thought a quick explanation might help, because the difference is not really … [Read more...]
May 5th, Seattle, Oracle in the Cloud Seminar
Blue Gecko would like to invite you to a complimentary lunch seminar on Wednesday, May 5, 2010. Jeremiah Wilton will be covering the topic High Performance Oracle 11g in the Amazon Cloud. There are 15 spaces available so sign up soon to reserve your spot. Click here to submit your registration info. … [Read more...]
Oracle E-Business Suite in the Amazon Cloud
I am scheduled to present “E-Business Suite in the Amazon Cloud” on Monday, April 19 at Collaborate 2010. I’ll provide an overview of Amazon Web Services and present a few common use cases that E-Business Suite DBAs in particular might find useful. If you are an E-Business Suite customer and do NOT have a DR site or struggle … [Read more...]
High Performance Oracle 11g in the Amazon Cloud
Jeremiah Wilton will be presenting High Performance Oracle 11g in the Amazon Cloud at Collaborate 2010 - an updated version of his February RMOUG presentation. For a preview, you can find both the white paper and presentation slides from RMOUG on our white paper page. Currently scheduled for Monday, April 19, the session abstract reads: … [Read more...]
Collaborate 2010 coming in less than a month
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...]
10 Things I Love About RMAN
I was looking at an old backup script the other day. We acquired a new client who was stiil using shell scripts to execute hot tablespace backups and it got me thinking about how much I take RMAN for granted these days. Remember how meticulous we used to be about backup shell scripts? In the "old days" you had to manage everything in the scripts … [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...]
Oracle Correction to Export/Import
If you don't get alerts regularly from Oracle Support you may have missed this notice: If you conducted an import or export of an Oracle10g Release 2 or 11g Release 1 database prior to September 11, 2009, you should follow the instructions in My Oracle Support Knowledge Document 1055539.1 to verify the privileges in your database. This is because a … [Read more...]