One of our senior MySQL DBAs, Mike Hamrick, wasn’t feeling well this week and so stayed home from the office. Instead of actually resting, produced this video about reading top output! I leave it to you all to watch and learn from our local tool tip pro. And, feel better Mike! Related posts:Introducing the Bluegecko MySQL Training … [Read more...]
WHY AUTOMATION IS ESSENTIAL FOR EVERY SHOP
As physical infrastructure has changed over the years, management and configuration mechanisms have evolved as well. In the old days, large machines were managed by hand in many cases, by expert administrators who understood their configuration intimately. Then, as smaller machines were integrated into the enterprise, management-by-hand became … [Read more...]
Linux is the only choice for the E-Business Suite application tier
Some single points of failure are often unnecessary with Oracle E-Business Suite. By design, application code may easily run on multiple, inexpensive x86 (or x86_64) nodes running Linux. I often see organizations spending lots of money on commercial, internally redundant application computing nodes when they could be spending far less while … [Read more...]
Oracle, MySQL, MariaDB, and Drizzle. oh my.
To follow up on Chuck's post from earlier this week, I want to say that yes, on Monday morning I raced across the office to share the crazy news that Oracle is trying to buy MySQL Sun. Though, I don't remember yelling. But, I did have a real point here and that is that the numbers that he quoted are prior to the Enterprise / Community split that … [Read more...]
Managing databases and other stuff
Databases exist to store data. That said, a database is infrequently useful entirely on it's own. So, managing databases means that we're often interacting with applications that access that data. Some of the common applications that we work with include Oracle E-Business Suite, Tomcat, Apache and ColdFusion. We had an entertaining problem … [Read more...]