I'll be giving a talk tonight at the Ignite MySQL! For those of you who don't know about this format, I suggest that you check out Ignite!. The basic premise is: Fast-paced, fun, thought-provoking, social, local, global—Ignite is all of these and more. It's a high-energy evening of 5-minute talks by people who have an idea—and the guts to get … [Read more...]
How Incompetence Stimulates the Information Technology Economy
As information technology professionals, we constantly complain about mismanaged projects in which we have the misfortune to be involved. Frequently, someone with more power than knowledge – usually in management and under the sway of a persuasive vendor sales team – has come up with a systems design most politely described as novel. Because of … [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...]
EC2 persistent boots with pivot root
Amazon recently allowed Elastic Block Store to boot persistent images. However, there are two concerns I have with the method. * The EBS boot volumes must be EBS Snapshots, which cost more than regular EBS volumes. (http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#pricing) * The EBS boot volumes currently do not work within the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) … [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...]
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...]
Listen and ye shall be heard
Are you the kind of person who takes your car to the shop and tells the mechanic exactly what part needs to be replaced or fixed? Do you go to the doctor’s office and let them know about your condition and probable cures based on what you looked up on WebMD? How about others’ interaction with you? In your professional life, have you been asked to … [Read more...]
E-Business Suite CPU patches now cumulative
Many Oracle Apps DBAs don’t feel pressure to apply E-Business Suite CPU until they are asked to expose an application node to the outside world; now there’s no excuse. If you’re an established EBS shop and you’ve never applied the EBS CPU patches for your Release 11i environment, there is quite a bit of work to get caught … [Read more...]
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