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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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The Customer Experience

July 23, 2014 Steve Karam Miscellaneous, News, Technology One comment

I’m going to kick this post off by taking sides in a long-standing feud. Apple is amazing. There. Edgy, right? Okay, so maybe you don’t agree with me, but you have to admit that a whole lot of people do. Why is that? Sure, there’s the snarky few that believe

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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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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

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  • LabAlchemy
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  • Cloudera Hadoop Training
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  • 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
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