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Fun articles that serve no real professional purpose beyond just being cool.

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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Zombie Server Room

Managing your Database in a Zombie Apocalypse

October 12, 2014 Steve Karam Fun, News, Oracle, Technology 4 comments

Only two things are really certain: network latency over long distances, and the fact that humanity will soon rapidly degenerate into undead brain-eaters. When that day comes, when the dead are crowding at your door and the windows are busted out and ripped up rotted arms are clawing at the

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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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Teach Your Children Well

September 3, 2014 Steve Karam Fun, Miscellaneous, News, Technology 5 comments

Today’s the first day of school in my city, and the plethora of “OMG 1st day of school!” posts of Facebook and my own kids heading back in to slog through another year of fundamentals got me thinking about education. My own kids (12/daughter and 10/son) came home and went

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8086 Processor

How I Became a DBA

October 8, 2013 Steve Karam Fun, News, Oracle 18 comments

The DBA job title is an interesting one. While everyone can understand “programmer” or “software tester” or even “system administrator”, the DBA role is so misunderstood by both muggles (I’m going to hell for using that word) and colleagues alike. In fact, at this point I’m fairly certain that it

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A Good Day

September 18, 2013 Steve Karam Fun, News, Oracle 2 comments

It was a fantastic day for good news. I’ll be honest, I didn’t have high hopes. Yesterday I was minding my own business, driving 55MPH (that’s 88.5KPH for the other 53,720,000 square miles of landmass in the world (that’s 13,913,400,000 hectares or whatever unit of area you all use)) on

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The Adventures of Ace DBA

Daydreams 2 – Rollbacks (Ace Comic)

August 30, 2013 Steve Karam Development, Fun, News, Oracle Leave a comment

At the Council of IT… Related Pay attention Ace! Daydreams #1 Rolling back parameter changes? The Sin of Band-Aids

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The Adventures of Ace DBA

Hostname (Ace Comic)

August 2, 2013 Steve Karam Fun, News, Oracle Leave a comment
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The Adventures of Ace DBA

Genesis (Ace Comic)

May 24, 2013 Steve Karam Development, Fun, News, Oracle 2 comments

The magic of creation… Related It was probably a database problem: Changes (Ace Comic) Avoiding Armageddon: High Performance Tuning Tools

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The Adventures of Ace DBA

Changes (Ace Comic)

May 10, 2013 Steve Karam Fun, Oracle, Technology One comment

It’s the only explanation! Related Ace has dealt with problems before… Default blame accepter?

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