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...]
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...]
Deriving Optimal Configuration Values Using 11g Database Replay
Presented by: Jeremiah Wilton, Blue Gecko OK, so, no, I’m not going to steal Jeremiah’s thunder here. What I am going to do is post his presentation, and give you a teaser: All bias aside, Real Application Testing is a truly revolutionary 11g feature that every DBA should get to know. As Jeremiah demonstrates, its uses go far beyond planning … [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 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...]
New whitepaper: Exploring ADR in Oracle Database 11g
It’s inevitable that at some time failures will occur in a database, particularly when the database has issues with self-reporting of faults. DBAs often lack the necessary time, knowledge, and/or skills to resolve an outage. For this reason, Oracle has introduced the Automatic Diagnostic Repository (ADR) in Oracle Database 11g. Jeremiah Wilton … [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...]