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Trying out Jenkins
Jenkins seems to be the top code build, integration and QA automation tool to support continuous delivery. Jenkins allows me to kick of jobs on a schedule or ofter certain events and Jenkins will keep...
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Jenkins Plugin for Delphix
In my last blog I talked about trying out Jenkins. In this blog post I want to talk about the new Jenkins plugin for Delphix. Delphix plugin Delphix plugin is easy to add. Just navigate to “Manage...
View ArticleSQL – is there a better way?
Next Tuesday at 11:20 am at Oracle headquarters there will be a panel discussion on SQL. You can participate whether you are there or not as we are collecting questions ahead of time and will video the...
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Fibre Channel vs NFS
NFS is the future, has larger bandwidth than FC, market is growing faster than FC, cheaper, easier, more flexible, cloud ready and improving faster than FC. photo by Paul Oka Fibre Channel Legacy :...
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Overcoming Your Oracle Data Insecurity Webinar
Overcoming Your Oracle Data Insecurity Webinar – Wednesday, March 30 – 10am PT In 2016, the risks and reasons why companies should secure their sensitive data are well known (Sony, Target, and Anthem...
View ArticleDB2 fully supported on Delphix
I’ve received a number of inquiries lately about the support of DB2 on Delphix and yes, Delphix 5.0 now supports full automation of virtual data for DB2. With the addition of DB2, Delphix now supports...
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Collaborate 2016 Oaktable World Sessions
Oaktable World Las Vegas is happening at Collaborate 2016! Many thanks to Tim Gorman, Alex Gorbachev and Mark Farnham for organizing! Free Oaktable World t-shirts available at Delphix booth 1613 on...
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Delphix replication and push button cloud migration
Someone just asked on the Delphix Forums whether they could test Delphix replication with the free version of Delphix called Delphix Express. I’d never tried, so I sat down to try and was amazed at how...
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Evolution of Masking Vendors
Masking with Delphix (where duplicate blocks are shared making a new copy almost free storage wise and almost instantaneous) has 4 big advantages Instant data, no copying Ease of Use Consistent across...
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Moving to Seattle! Our beautiful rental available in San Francisco
More news coming, but for now, we (family and I) are moving to Seattle! We will be giving up our gorgeous rental house in San Francisco thus it will be available to the next lucky family. Elegant...
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Speaking at OOW 2016 on Sunday on Active Session History
Session ID: UGF3110 Advanced Active Session History Analytics Moscone West—3020 09/18/16, 03:30:00 PM – 04:15:00 PM
View ArticleDenial of Service (DoS) attack on this site
This site had been running for a years with no big issues. I had performance and system saturation issues about 3 years ago and then move the site to DigitalOcean.com. DigitalOcean.com is inexpensive...
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Denial of Service (DoS) attacks continue
It’s frustrating to have to spend time jumping off into web security and wordpress configurations when there are so many other things that are important to be doing. Today the DoS continued and the...
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Oaktable World 2016 Sept 19 & 20 is on !!
Having take a new job at Amazon just two weeks ago and moving to Seattle (!) I didn’t have the time nor was it practical to set up Oaktable World this year. Luckily Kellyn Pot’vin has taken over the...
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Started at Amazon! … want to join me?
(Disclamer: any opinions expressed here are fully my own and not representative of my employer) photo by alvaroprieto (cc 2.0) Super excited to be working at Amazon on my passion which is performance...
View ArticleSQL*PLus on Mac
I would think installing SQL*Plus on the Mac would be point, click download, point click, install bam it works. Nah It did install mostly straight forward on my old Mac. Got a new Mac and no dice....
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Amazon announces Performance Insights
Excited to see the announcement of Amazon RDS Performance Insight feature for database performance monitoring and tuning. Having met the team for this project I can say from my personal view point that...
View ArticleWhy does my full table scan take 10x longer today ?!
Every so often a DSS query that usually takes 10 minutes ends up taking over an hour. (or one that takes an hour never seems to finish) Why would this happen? When investigating the DSS query, perhaps...
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Apple Upset – upgrading to iPhone 7
Upgrading is always stressful – be it a computer, an Oracle database or an iPhone. There’s always a good chance for lost data and lost time dealing with complications. So yesterday I picked up a new...
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Graphics for SQL Optimization
Dan Tow, in his book SQL Tuning, lays out a simple method of tuning SQL queries. The method is Draw a diagram of each table in the query with Children above Parents Draw join lines between each join...
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