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Oracle is my focus profession and the big kahuna among transactional databases on the market today. This category features in-depth technical posts regarding Oracle, musings, projects, and Oracle related news.

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Provisioning Virtual ASM (vASM)

August 3, 2015 Steve Karam News, Oracle, Technology 5 comments

In this post, we’re going to use Delphix to create a virtual ASM diskgroup, and provision a clone of the virtual ASM diskgroup to a target system. I call it vASM, which is pronounced “vawesome.” Let’s make it happen. Most viewers assume Gollum was talking about Shelob the giant spider here,

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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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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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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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Group Hug

Some Oracle Community News

October 30, 2013 Steve Karam News, Oracle 6 comments

With all the posts on Hadoop lately I bet you forgot I am an Oracle geek too, huh? Well, if the name OracleAlchemist wasn’t enough to remind you, I have some news that might. Two big things have happened this week that I’d like to share. OracleCommunity.net Eddie Awad–the industrious

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