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AWS re:invent 2018 – Day 1

Yesterday was my first day at AWS re:Invent conference. The venue is quite impressive, the conference is split between 6 hotels where you can attend different types of sessions including chalk talk, keynotes, hands-on labs or workshop. For my first day,(…)

SQL Server 2019 CTP 2.1 – A replacement of DBCC PAGE command?

Did you ever use the famous DBCC PAGE command? Folks who are interested in digging further to the SQL Server storage already use it for a while. We also use it during our SQL Server performance(…)

Strange behavior when patching GI/ASM

I tried to apply a patch to my 18.3.0 GI/ASM two node cluster on RHEL 7.5. The first node worked fine, but the second node got always an error...

DOAG 2018: OVM or KVM on ODA?

The DOAG 2018 is over, for me the most important topics were in the field of licensing. The insecurity among the users is great, let’s take virtualization on the ODA, for example: The starting point: The customer uses Oracle Enterprise(…)

AWS re:invent 2018 warm up

The Cloud is now part of our job so we have to get a deeper look on the available services to understand and take best advantage of them. The annual AWS conference re:invent has started tonight in The Venetian at Las(…)

Flashback to the DOAG conference 2018

Each year, since the company creation in 2010, dbi services attends the DOAG conference in Nürnberg. Since 2013 we even have a booth. The primary goal of participating to the DOAG Conference, is to get an overview about the main(…)

My DOAG Debut

Unbelievable! After more than 10 years working in the Oracle Database environment, this year was my first participation at the DOAG Conference + Exhibition.

DOAG 2018: Key word: “Docker”

In my blog about the DOAG Last year I said that saw a growing interest on the automatic deployment tools and Docker containers. This year confirmed the interest. They were a lot of presentations about Docker containers, Kubernetes,(…)

My first presentation at the DOAG – “MySQL 8.0 Community: Ready for GDPR?”

This year I participated for the first time to the DOAG, the conference which takes place in November in Nuremberg. Here some key words about this event: Oracle and other technologies, 2000 visitors, more than 400 sessions, more than 800(…)

Technical and non-technical sessions at the DOAG 2018

The amazing DOAG 2018 conference is over now. As every year we saw great technical as well as great non-technical sessions. What impressed me was the non-technical presentation “Zurück an die Arbeit – Wie aus Business-Theatern wieder echte Unternehmen werden”(…)