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Wow, this is big – a Yes SQL conference ! Finally ! It’s here ! Yes SQL ! the conference! At Oracle headquarters ! Send me your...

I knew I had to try out Neto’s  Graphora when I saw that it was a docker container to collect Oracle performance data and send it to...

A recent post on LinkedIn had this image: The problem is as old as development. The tester finds a bug but the developer can’t reproduce...

What fun to see Top Activity aka ASH artwork on twitter profiles:

One of the attractive things about Docker to me, is that I can spin up containers with software that doesn’t affect the rest of my...

In my last post I showed using Docker and Delphix to support WordPress. I use wordpress for this blog. Works fine on it’s own. It is just...

photo by  www.GlynLowe.com The appeal of Docker is clear. The Docker platform enables multiple applications to run concurrently on a...

This article lists some of the key capabilities that Delphix provides over and above Storage Snapshot based cloning solutions to meet the...

Delphix is tightly integrated with PostGres, Oracle, Sybase and SQL Server but here is an example of  impressively easy workflow with DB2...

photo by Sunova Surfboards A second wave of cloud migration is now happening after the initial hiccups of Reaction to Shadow IT...

Credit: Matthias Weinberger (CC2) What is Devops? As has been noted many of times, DevOps is a term that is hard to define. DevOps is a...

read the full IDC report on Virtual Data here. Here are some key sound bites from the report: “Data has turned IT departments into...

Software is eating the world We see taxis being beaten out by Uber and Lyft. We see hotels being undercut by Airbnb. We see brokerage...

Steve Jobs sets a great perspective on the journey of simplicity. It starts from simple, goes through complexity and ends up in...

I don’t know if you are ever asked to compare to AWR periods. AWR period comparison is pretty easy if you have access to the two periods...

Here is a short video D3 Show Reel from Mike Bostock on Vimeo. Here is a longer tutorial video Data-driven Documents from London Web...

Looking around Oracle Open World this year, it seemed like there was a significant drop in  attendees – at least compared to years past...

UPDATE: recorded videos now available If you can’t make it in person to Oaktable World, check it out via live streaming ! here is the agenda

Want a free version of Delphix Express installed on your computer with the assistance of Oracle and Delphix experts? We will be holding...

The following is an example of rolling a virtual database (VDB) back in time with Delphix Express, the free version of Delphix. Delphix...