Most organizations running Oracle today are thinking about availability to some degree. For many, it is to their great dismay that they find that average availability is no higher after implementing a high-availability architecture such as RAC or dataguard. Paradoxically, many organizations find that their availability numbers actually get … [Read more...]
New whitepaper: High availability without breaking the bank
Oracle’s RAC-centric marketing sells Oracle short by ignoring a broad spectrum of huge advances in 9i and 10g. These features, including logical standby (part of DataGuard), streams, improved multimaster replication, flashback query, Cross-platform transportable tablespaces, improved RMAN (including the pipe interface), constitute the great … [Read more...]
Select Magazine interview with Jeremiah Wilton
SELECT’s Executive Editor Paul Dorsey asked Amazon.com’s lead DBA, Jeremiah Wilton about helping administer one of the largest e-Commerce databases in the world. Check out the interview on the Blue Gecko whitepaper page. … [Read more...]
New whitepaper: Common Oracle Misconceptions
The consequence of large numbers of Oracle professionals taking advice without understanding it has been a great profusion of theories and ideas with no basis in either fact or experience. These theories have a way of spreading like wildfire, in the form of “common wisdom” and “best practices.” Unsound ideas abound only because not enough people … [Read more...]
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