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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

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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

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What’s the Diff? Creating AWR Difference Reports

February 12, 2013 Steve Karam News, Oracle One comment

If you’re a DBA on Enterprise Edition with the Diagnostics Pack and you don’t use the Automatic Workload Repository (AWR) reports, you are seriously missing out. AWR is the holy grail of snapshot-based metrics at the instance level. There are a ton of resources out there covering AWR, so I

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A BLOB Filesystem built with FUSE, node.js, and fuse4js

February 11, 2013 Steve Karam Development, Fun, News, Oracle One comment

Here’s one for the “neato” category. This weekend I decided to try making a filesystem with FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace), a package which allows mountable filesystems to be customized and modified with a source other than disk. The data can come from anywhere, and it will take the traditional appearance

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Flashback

Because what is life without humor?

February 5, 2013 Steve Karam Fun, News, Oracle Leave a comment

I noticed yesterday that I was still getting hits for my Oracle Ace comics, but since the site for them is long gone viewers were justing getting errors. So I’ve brought them here for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy! And yes, I’m a big xkcd fan. I’m also aware that my

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Make your own VM training/lab environment for $900

February 4, 2013 Steve Karam Fun, News, Oracle, Technology 3 comments

I’m sure we’ve all dabbled with VMs a time or two (and if you haven’t, you should). However, I had a specific goal of creating a robust purely virtual environment for training, labs, and testing. While a plain old Linux VM loaded over Windows, Linux, or Mac would have been

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Oracle RAC Training in Lausanne

December 1, 2008 Steve Karam News, Oracle 11 comments

Recently I posted that I was teaching a class in Switzerland. I’m home now in good ol’ Virginia, over the jet lag and ready to blog. Class went very well. I taught the Burleson Consulting 3 day Oracle RAC course, one of our most popular courses which I am called

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The Ultimate Class! Learn Oracle at Sea

October 30, 2008 Steve Karam Fun, Oracle One comment

In the Steve Karam Philosophy, every DBA deserves a few things: Access to Metalink Loads of good coffee At least two computers A yearly cruise on which they can learn Oracle There’s only one thing better than an Oracle class, and that’s an Oracle class taught by top notch instructors

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The Adventures of Ace DBA

The Oracle DBA Calculator (Ace Comic)

July 26, 2008 Steve Karam Fun, Oracle Leave a comment
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The Adventures of Ace DBA

Language Barriers (Ace Comic)

July 25, 2008 Steve Karam Fun, Oracle Leave a comment
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