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Anyone who says developers and DBAs can’t work together is wrong; it is vital that we work together. In many ways we share job roles and responsibilities, DevOps or no DevOps. These articles are developer-centric, or at the least feature important information for the DBA as it pertains to the development role.

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Building Classrooms in the Cloud

November 16, 2016 Steve Karam Development, News, Technology Leave a comment

Introducing LabAlchemy, a homegrown classroom lab management system built to deploy and access customized training labs in Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud.

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Push Button

Real Push Button Refresh with Raspberry Pi

April 19, 2015 Steve Karam Development, Fun, News, Oracle, Technology 2 comments

In this post, we’re going to perform a push button refresh of an Oracle Database, Application Express (APEX) installation, and Tomcat webserver. “But Oracle Alchemist,” you’re probably thinking, “we know about that. You’ve told us about how Delphix can provision and refresh data.” And yes, you’d be right. But I

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VDBs

Deploying Application Express with Delphix

January 24, 2015 Steve Karam Development, News, Oracle One comment

Seamless cloning of an application stack is an outstanding goal. Seamless cloning of an application stack including the full production database, application server, and webserver in a few minutes with next to zero disk space used or configuration required is the best goal since Alexander Graham Bell decided he wanted

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Another Great OpenWorld

October 10, 2014 Steve Karam Big Data, Development, Fun, News, Oracle, Technology Leave a comment

Last week I attended Oracle OpenWorld 2014, and it was an outstanding event filled with great people, awesome sessions, and a few outstanding notable experiences. Personally I thought the messaging behind the conference itself wasn’t as amazing and upbeat as OpenWorld 2013, but that’s almost to be expected. Last year

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Oracle OpenWorld

Openworld 2014

September 27, 2014 Steve Karam Development, News, NoSQL, Oracle, Technology Leave a comment

Are you going to Oracle OpenWorld 2014? I am, and I hope to see you there! As you probably know, OpenWorld is a humongous event with tens of thousands of people in attendance and some amazing presentations. Why, I even hear Oracle’s new CTO might be there. I wonder if

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Lying Businessman

Frequently Misused Metrics in Oracle

April 15, 2014 Steve Karam Development, News, Oracle 4 comments

Back in March of last year I wrote an article on the five frequently misused metrics in Oracle: These Aren’t the Metrics You’re Looking For. To sum up, my five picks for the most misused metrics were: db file scattered read – Scattered reads aren’t always full table scans, and

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Shrugging

IT Stockholm Syndrome

March 7, 2014 Steve Karam Development, News, Oracle, Technology 2 comments

Random thoughts on a Friday afternoon… We’ve all got problems. More to the point, every IT department or team has problems of some kind. It’s why we hire consultants, buy products, start long and arduous journeys into the great unknown depths of root cause analysis, and so on. What fascinates

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Gold

The Delphix Alchemist?

December 9, 2013 Steve Karam Development, News, Oracle, Technology 6 comments

Alchemists are best known for their (completely fictional and entirely ridiculous, but that’s besides the point) amazing ability to turn lead into gold. Let’s face it, there’s a lot of lead in the Oracle world. Bugs, angry developers, metrics that can seem to elude human understanding…but I digress. The question

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Piggy Bank

The High Price of Data

October 28, 2013 Steve Karam Development, News, Oracle, Technology One comment

You’ve purchased servers, storage space, switches, cables, and countless other pieces of hardware. The Oracle licenses are bought and paid for, Enterprise Edition with a few add-ons. All told, you’ve spent a small fortune on this infrastructure. It’s finally time to start up your database and begin using it for

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Elephant Painting

Hadoop Streaming, Hue, Oozie Workflows, and Hive

October 24, 2013 Steve Karam Big Data, Development, News 10 comments

MapReduce with Hadoop Streaming in bash – Bonus! To conclude my three part series on writing MapReduce jobs with shell script for use with Hadoop Streaming, I’ve decided to throw together a video tutorial on running the jobs we’ve created in Oozie, a workflow editor for Hadoop that allows jobs

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