Success is about Imagination

What if I’m a developer or QA person using a copy of production database to do my work. What if my copy of production is now out of...

photo by Chase Elliott Clark Here a video on using Jetstream which I like to call “DevOps Jetpack for Developers” (Remember you can get...

Delphix has a developer self service interface called “Jetstream.”  I like to call it the “DevOps Jetpack” for developers. Jetstream is...

What kinds of things keep a IT ops person up at night? What kinds of things make IT Ops people have to work over the weekends? What keeps...

I have previously announced that Delphix now has a free version available called Delphix Express as well as how to install Delphix...

This post is part of a series Delphix Express: Installation Delphix Express: Virtualizing a database and web application Delphix Express:...

Delphix Express is available! To get a copy of Delphix Express go to http://pages.delphix.com/Free-Trial-Request.html and put “Express”...

Wow – 5 years have flown by. Five years ago I joined Delphix and five years ago Delphix began the virtual data industry. Like all...

Looking forward to speaking at NWOUG Monday September 14 Please come join me ! I lived in Portland between 2006-2008 and love city. It...

photo by Yannis (CC 2.0) Announcing Delphix Express, a completely new and free version of Delphix limited to 1 vCPU and 25 GB of managed...

People ask me from time to time what are some good SQL tuning books. It’s a tough question to answer. There are some seminal books such...

photo by Tom Woodward Summary of responses to questions from Solarwinds #datachat back in the fall. 1. Why do performance issues happen?...

I’ve been using VMware Fusion on my Mac but it costs about $60. Not that much but Virtualbox is free, so I also have Virtualbox as well....

Thus I’m excited to announce the first acquisition by Delphix (portending many to come). Dephix has just acquired the data masking...

The capabilities of Delphix can be differentiated from snapshot technologies through the following hierarchy: Data as as Service...

Wednesday April 15 at Collaborate 2015 Las Vegas room Mandalay K For more information see Pythian’s Blog post. What is Oaktable World ?...

photo by Jose Maria Cuellar (CC 2.0) Thanks to Leighton Nelson who pointed out  that : Oracle has a pre-installed Linux VM with 12c...

Most of my servers tend to be Linux VMs on VMware ESX without any graphics desktops setup, so it can be disconcerting trying to install...

photo by youflavio In a recent blog post Eric D. Brown defined an Agile Data Center as An Agile Data Center is one that allows...

Note: This is a reposting of an old blog post that was on dboptimizer.com but is no longer accessible More trace file analyzer tools...