Skip to content
Oracle Alchemist

Oracle Alchemist

Steve Karam’s Blog

  • Oracle
  • Fun
  • Technology
  • Development
  • Big Data
  • NoSQL

Category: Oracle

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.

The Adventures of Ace DBA

Big Data (Ace Comic)

March 22, 2013 Steve Karam Big Data, Fun, News, Oracle 3 comments

For your weekend pleasure (and back after many years), a new Adventures of Ace, DBA comic! Don’t forget to check out Big Data #2 – Big Data Speaks!

Continue reading

These Aren’t the Metrics You’re Looking For

March 21, 2013 Steve Karam News, Oracle 3 comments

Oracle is well known as a complex environment, and with good reason. Though they will object to that complexity at the sales level, they embrace it at the technical level. Let’s forget for a moment the pains this may have caused us in our careers and focus on an undeniable

Continue reading
Oracle Storage Sunburst

Web Friendly Interactive Data Visualization with D3.js

March 14, 2013 Steve Karam Big Data, Development, News, Oracle 3 comments

I have been tinkering quite a bit with new database and development frameworks. Recently I decided to beef up my knowledge of data visualization as it’s a very hot topic and the ultimate way to make your data understood. R is an incredibly popular option which can be as simple

Continue reading
Clone Maker

Cloning Your Oracle Installation

March 12, 2013 Steve Karam News, Oracle 2 comments

If there is one thing a DBA hates it is to waste time. Particularly on boring and tedious tasks. One such task is installing Oracle on a new system (or duplicating a home on an existing system) which generally involves X server setup (Xming for Windows, XQuartz on Mac, pure

Continue reading
SQLPlus With Color

Add History and Tab Completion to SQLPlus

March 6, 2013 Steve Karam News, Oracle 5 comments

In the uncharted backwaters of the Internet there exists a really awesome tool called rlwrap. This readline wrapper is able to call programs that are deficient in modern amenities like history, color, and tab completion, intercept input/output, and replace it as necessary with useful goodies. And what program could be

Continue reading

A Few Words on Oracle Licenses

March 1, 2013 Steve Karam Development, News, Oracle, Technology 22 comments

Despite reams of legalese and countless blog/forum posts, basic Oracle RDBMS licensing still remains a mystery to many. While I won’t even begin to discuss components like Oracle Apps, hopefully this post may help you attain a basic understanding of Oracle, what you can license, and what it costs. Editions

Continue reading

Deploying Outside the Box

February 27, 2013 Steve Karam Big Data, Development, News, NoSQL, Oracle, Technology 8 comments

I’ve been on quite a “broaden your horizons” kick lately, as evidenced by my team and DBA development posts and ultimately the Database Diversity series (in progress). But I truly think it is important to keep not only aware but conversant in emerging technologies both for your personal benefit and

Continue reading

DBA, Grow Thyself – Moving and Shaking in the Era of Data Dominance

February 20, 2013 Steve Karam Development, News, NoSQL, Oracle, Technology One comment

Beefing up your technical skills is important, and it’s what makes you a good DBA, Developer, Architect, or whatever you happen to be. But at the same time, it is incredibly important to keep up with the professional trends in your organization. While all organizations are different, there are some

Continue reading

DBA Team, Front and Center

February 18, 2013 Steve Karam News, NoSQL, Oracle, Technology 2 comments

A lot of database professionals seem to agree that the DBA acronym stands for “Default Blame Accepter”. Indeed, I’d be lying if I said that I’ve never felt that way. But I believe that a more in-depth look into why the DBA team always seems to be at the center

Continue reading

5 quick and dirty Linux tips you may not know

February 14, 2013 Steve Karam News, Oracle, Technology 10 comments

Remember that day you were sitting at a friendly bash$ prompt and discovered tab completion? It was like a choir of angels came down from the heavens and sang Hallelujah, the Shell Hath Come (yes, that’s a bourne again reference). While these 5 tips may not be that monumental, they

Continue reading

Posts pagination

«Previous Posts 1 2 3 4 5 6 … 11 Next Posts»

Network

Visit Us On TwitterVisit Us On FacebookCheck Our FeedVisit Us On Linkedin

Series

  • LabAlchemy
  • Hadoop Streaming
  • Cloudera Hadoop Training
  • Optimizing WordPress
  • Adventures of Ace, DBA
  • Grow Your Career
  • Database Diversity

Oracle Blogs

  • Amardeep Sidhu
  • Bertrand Drouvot
  • Bobby Curtis
  • Brian Pardy
  • Chet Justice
  • David Aldridge
  • Dimitri Gielis
  • Doug Burns
  • Jonathan Lewis
  • Kellyn Pot'Vin
  • Kevin Closson
  • Kyle Hailey
  • Marco Gralike
  • Oracle Base
  • Osama Mustafa
  • Pete Finnigan
  • Radio Free Tooting
  • Richard Foote
  • Tim Hall

Network

Visit Us On TwitterVisit Us On FacebookCheck Our FeedVisit Us On Linkedin

Series

  • LabAlchemy
  • Hadoop Streaming
  • Cloudera Hadoop Training
  • Optimizing WordPress
  • Adventures of Ace, DBA
  • Grow Your Career
  • Database Diversity

Oracle Blogs

  • Amardeep Sidhu
  • Bertrand Drouvot
  • Bobby Curtis
  • Brian Pardy
  • Chet Justice
  • David Aldridge
  • Dimitri Gielis
  • Doug Burns
  • Jonathan Lewis
  • Kellyn Pot'Vin
  • Kevin Closson
  • Kyle Hailey
  • Marco Gralike
  • Oracle Base
  • Osama Mustafa
  • Pete Finnigan
  • Radio Free Tooting
  • Richard Foote
  • Tim Hall
WordPress Theme: Tortuga by ThemeZee.