Oracle database administration

Oracle blogs: Friday wrap-up

On this fine spring Friday I thought I’d point to a few things going on around the Oracle blogosphere. First, an update on OTN’s blogging cred. Justin Kestelyn posts an update saying he’s glad he complained, as he’s gotten a lot of...

OpenWorld closing out San Francisco?

Like peanut butter and chocolate, the City by the Bay and Oracle's massive (and getting bigger every minute) user conference seem to be two great things that go great together, but it may not stay that way. According to a report in the San Francisco Business Times, (subscription only except for...

Did you hear the one about…?

My, how Collaborate has grown! In only its second official year, the three user group combined conference is already up to 7,000 attendees from 50 countries. Let's just hope that it doesn't get as big as OpenWorld -- although if...

Can Oracle DBAs survive automation?

Today marks the first full day of Collaborate '07, and the word of the day is overwhelming. The conference is huge, the hotels are huge, and the list of sessions is huge—if you can manage to decide which sessions you want to go to, good luck finding them! Today after scrambling to grab lunch I...

Collaborate ’07 countdown

Only four days and counting till Collaborate ’07 kicks off in fabulous Las Vegas (an upgrade from last year’s setting of Nash Vegas). As usual the whole SearchOracle team is going to be there to bring...

Petabytes of data: The new normal?

As enterprise Oracle DBAs know first-hand, data growth these days is exponential. Gartner calculates that the average site doubles its data under management every 6 to 18 months. Terabyte-sized data stores were a novelty not too long ago but you'll soon be hearing more and more about petabtyes....

Oracle on Linux: Users speak out

Last week I asked you readers out there what you think about the future of Linux -- will desktop Linux ever achieve the dream of world domination? What about Oracle on...

Oracle on Linux: Is Linux’s big year always next year?

Around this time last year we ran a story called “IOUG: Linux to be top platform for Oracle by next year.” Mark Brunelli had spoken with IOUG president Ari Kaplan about a survey of the...

This is why to test your backups!

Attention DBAs: listen carefully to this tale of woe...

At the Alaska Dept. of Revenue recently, a "technician" committed not one, but two, serious errors: first, he mistakenly deleted over 600,000...

What do you know from storage management?

Getting the most out of database storage management means keeping up with the myriad data storage tools, techniques and concepts that continually pop up in the IT marketplace.   It's especially...