Presenting “How Data Recovery Mechanisms Complicate Security, and What To Do...
Personally-identifiable information (PII) and classified information stored within an Oracle database is quite secure, as the capabilities of Oracle database ensure that it is accessible only by...
View ArticleSinging The NoCOUG Blues
This is a re-post of an interview between myself and Iggy Fernandez, editor of the Journal of the Northern California Oracle Users Group (NoCOUG), Oracle ACE, OakTable member, blogger, and simply an...
View ArticleSQL Saturday – 25-March 2017 – Colorado Springs CO
I’m really excited about speaking at SQL Saturday on my favorite topic! SQLSaturday is a free training event for Microsoft Data Platform professionals and those wanting to learn about SQL Server,...
View ArticleSQL Saturday 588 – May 20 in NYC
I’m really excited about speaking at SQL Saturday #588 at the Microsoft office in Times Square, I’ll be discussing Accelerating TDM Using Data Virtualization. This is my favorite topic, because for...
View ArticleAutomating Stored Procedures When Refreshing Virtual SQL Server Databases
So… you’re using a Delphix virtualization engine to provision SQL Server virtual databases (VDBs), but you’re finding that your SQL account passwords are being reset to those used in production after...
View ArticleAchieving a balance
Please think this through carefully? Cite a single occasion when a woman did not receive shaming, threats of job termination, counter-accusations, death threats, and personal shunning after she...
View ArticleOak Table World 2018
Oak Table World 2018 (OTW) just completed at the Children’s Creativity Museum in San Francisco. The event website is “https://otw18.org“. This year, it was my turn to organize this remarkable little...
View ArticleDelphix XPP explained
This article was originally posted on the Delphix Support blog on 15-Nov 2015, but with the deprecation of the XPP feature with the new 6.0 release and higher, it was decided best to remove this...
View ArticleOracle dNFS on NFS v4.1
If you search the Oracle Support website or the internet for information on Oracle’s direct NFS (dNFS), you’ll find a decent amount of useful information, including coded examples. However, if you...
View ArticleAzure host-caching with Oracle database workloads on Azure VMs
There are almost 2,000 Azure customers running Oracle database workloads on Azure VMs, and that number is growing rapidly all the time. Running Oracle on Azure is not the first idea to occur to many...
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