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Oracle Open World 2013: Day 4 – In-Memory, the next big thing in Oracle 12c

Let’s talk about the 4th day in San Francisco at Oracle OpenWorld 2013. Many conferences, hands on labs, keynotes and so on. Some sessions are in the biggest room with many people. Today, we will focus on the new(…)

Oracle Open World 2013: 3rd day – Hands on lab, Optimizer tips and Microsoft Cloudn

Today, I’ll talk about the 3rd day at Oracle OpenWorld 2013 and I’ll be shorter than yesterday, too much text. Actually, it’s difficult to have good pictures during the conferences. So what’s the program in this blog: a “hands(…)

Oracle Open World 2013: 2nd day – VirtualBox, Oracle Linux and Big Data

Another packed day in San Francisco, I had to visit 3 different places to assist sessions I have planned today. I have not enough time to write about everything, so what’s the program? A few words about the(…)

Oracle Open World 2013: First day – In-Memory, Perl for DBAs, and RDBMS Forensics

Oracle Open World 2013 just started this Sunday morning, 22 October. I’m very happy to be part of such an event this year as an attendee and as a speaker. It’s a very impressive event with lots of people(…)

SQL Server 2012 SP1: Sixth Cumulative Update (CU6) available

Some days ago, Microsoft published the sixth Cumulative Update (CU6) for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Service Pack one, two months after the fifth one. As usual, if this Cumulative Update solves an issue you are facing, install it(…)

SQL Server 2012 SP1: Fifth Cumulative Update (CU5) available

On 16 July, Microsoft published the fifth Cumulative Update (CU5) for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Service Pack One. As usual, if this Cumulative Update solves an issue you are facing, install it quickly – otherwise, do not install it. Which(…)

Oracle Database 12c: Information Lifecycle Management

More and more resources are used in companies to manage data. Most companies buy more and more storage systems because of poor resource utilization. Starting with Oracle 11g, Oracle has introduced Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) which can use different kinds(…)

High availability and disaster recovery on Windows Azure VMs

To be honest, I am not a specialist of Windows Azure. In order to learn a little bit more about this subject, I decided to follow a TechEd Europe 2013 session about High Availability and Desaster Recovery on Windows(…)

SQL Server 2014 CTP1 is available

Last week, I gave you some news about SQL Server 2014 (here). SQL Server 2014 Community Technology Preview 1 (CTP1) now is available for download on TechNet here (you need a TechNet subscription).  (…)

Discovering Oracle database 12c targets (CDB, PDB) in Cloud Control 12c

In my consultant’s activity at dbi services, I had the opportunity to test the new databasion version Oracle 12c. As an Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c fan, when the 12.1.0.3.0 Oracle database plugin was made available, I decided to(…)