Tag: Oracle
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Synthesis of Specialized and General Purpose
Closing the specialization vs. general purpose mini-series (part 1, part 2) is Keith Laker from Oracle’s Data Warehouse Insider blog in The Next Evolutionary Step – Analytical Connectivity. And he’s arguing that the shift towards specialization is already over, and appliances will be dead within 2-3 years.… Continued
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The Shift Towards Specialized Hardware and Software
Following up on yesterday’s post we have Stephen O’Grady from RedMonk looking at specialization vs. general purpose from a general industry perspective: A Swing of the Pendulum: The Shift Towards Specialized Hardware and Software.… Continued
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Simplification Through Specialization
Ramon Chen’s post Simplification Through Specialization (later repeated on the Rainstor blog) rang quite a bell with me, also on the personal level. But here’s why specialization is better for some:
If you were going to spend big bucks, you’d expect results and performance to match your use cases and requirements.… Continued
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End of Oracle 10gR2 Premier Support
Ronny Egner’s post reminded me that when you come back to work next week, Oracle 10gR2 will be in Extended Support. Luckily for all of us (who can say they have no more 10g databases?), Oracle doesn’t charge their customers for the first year of Extended Support on Oracle 10gR2, so you’ll have another year to get off of 10.2.0.5, or start paying for Extended Support after 31.… Continued
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Linux for Oracle Tuning Checklist
A quick post on a Linux for Oracle Tuning Checklist I found in Ronny Egner’s blog. If you’re doing Oracle on Linux, this is a must read (best while sitting at a Linux terminal), else just ignore this post.
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Some Re-Engineering may be Required
Greg Rahn’s post about The Core Performance Fundamentals Of Oracle Data Warehousing – Set Processing vs Row Processing is so good, everybody considering a migration from a standard RDBMS to a VLDB platform (such as Exadata, as in Greg’s example) should be forced to read it.… Continued
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Oracle Licensing
Go read the Licensing Consulting blog! I know this is a non-technical post for once, but it’s a very good read for anybody remotely interested in the financials and business methods of Oracle and other Database vendors, to some extent. Good posts to start with are Oracle ULA contract agreement risk factors and The Oracle Support Recalculation issue.
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Oracle CPU July 2010
Oracle’s Critical Patch Update July 2010 is out, with two easy to exploit DoS vulnerabilities in the Database network stack (although one on Windows only), and one critical vulnerability in the OLAP component – let’s just hope that this one opens the DB for attack if OLAP is actually linked in… because I guess most people’s Oracle will not have OLAP built in.… Continued
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Oracle CPU July 2010 Pre-Release
Oracle’s Critical Patch Update Pre-Release Announcement – July 2010 arrived online, and the nice folks at Integrigy already published their standard CPU pre-release analysis.
I’m a bit worried about the number of highly critical Database alerts, four out of six vulnerabilities are remotely exploitable without authentication.… Continued