Tag: Oracle
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Oracle Critical Patch Update October 2010
The Oracle Critical Patch Update October 2010 is out, see the Oracle Security Blog for commentary. Of the 9 Database related vulnerabilities, 7 do not apply if you are on the latest patchset on 10gR2 or 11gR2, a much higher than usual number, and hopefully a good sign for what’s to come. On the other…
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Oracle Workload Management
Jean-Pierre Dijcks is writing a good little series of posts on Oracle Workload Management: After spending some time on discussing some of the new parallel features (like AutoDOP and Statement Queuing) it is about time to put these features in a larger context. That context is managing diverse workloads with varying degrees of parallelism for…
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SQL Server Redundancy
Andrew Fryer wrote a reference post about SQL Server Redundancy earlier this month about the pros and cons of clustering and mirroring, so it’s about time I mention it here! His motivation was an internal request at Microsoft: If there are internal Microsoft staff who don’t know when to use what, then I imagine there…
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When do you need ACID?
The recent JPMorgan Chase outage caused by an Oracle RAC block corruption places an old question back on the agenda that gets ignored way too often: How to tell whether you need ACID-compliant transaction integrity. The cost of ACID in large database systems is so high that you should consider moving those parts to simpler,…
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Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g
Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g has been out for some time now, and articles were piling up that I wanted to write about… so here you go: What’s new in Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g for Oracle Database 11g Release 2 and Exadata V2 Differences between EM10g and EM11g, this article is more on the sysadmin /…
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IBM Netezza Update
Analyst reactions to yesterday’s announcement of IBM acquiring Netezza are now coming in. Here’s Forrester’s Yuhanna on IBM Buying Netezza, Sending Clear Shot Across Oracle’s Bow, and there’s Curt Monash with Some thoughts on the announcement that IBM is buying Netezza. Curt also spells out that there’s a breakup fee of around 3%, meaning somebody…
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Oracle Exadata Updates
After yesterday’s Exalogic announcement, Oracle now also announced a good chunk of updates on Exadata. Not a v3, though, but Exadata X2-8 does sound like a winner for those who need the single-node performance of an 8 socket (at 8 cores each) DB server box with 2TB of RAM. Wow! The X2-2 edition is more…
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Oracle Exalogic, Linux Changes
As expected, Larry Ellison announced Oracle’s new Middleware appliance at OpenWorld yesterday – Oracle Exalogic features 30 servers, Infinibad, Flash storage. More about the announcement in eWeeks’s Oracle’s Ellison Introduces Exalogic: New Cloud-in-a-Box System. Supposedly there’s also an OLTP appliance announcement due today – could be Exadata v3 that everybody’s been talking about? On a…
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Exawars
There are some funny little wars being fought in the blogosphere between Teradata and Netezza attacking Oracle Exadata. Instead of taking side, let me just link to what’s been going on so far. The Teradata whitepaper that got the ball rolling: Exadata – the Sequel. Exadata V2 is Still Oracle DB Professor Daniel Abadi is…
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Project Lockdown updated for 11gR2
Arup Nanda finally updated his Project Lockdown series of Oracle Security articles for 11gR2. Definitely worth a read (and I’m surprised I can’t find an article on my blog about the first version of Project Lockdown – must’ve happened during a low-impact-blogging phase). Via Alexander Kornbrust.