During October 2015, Oracle announced that the Extended Support Fee for Oracle Database 11g R2 will be waived until May 31, 2017. After this period, Extended Support for Oracle Database 11g R2 will be offered until December 2020.

A primary concern for…

Performance Analysis for SQL Server, and Performance Analysis for Oracle, have been long-standing tools in the our portfolio (The following article only applies to SQL Server and Oracle.  Performance Investigator for DB2 has not yet been developed).  When…

                    

I remember as a young lad of 12 years of age writing letters to friends and family that I had grown up with. As I would finish the letter, I would jump on my bike and run to the local post office to purchase a stamp for the letter. I’m not going…

As a follow-up to Pete Koliopolous (Vice President, Global Software Channels & Alliances) video on the new channel landscape, I caught up with Chris Miller, Executive Director EMEA Channels, to get his perspective on how this relates to EMEA.   

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As they say in business, time is money!  Choosing the right things to spend your time on is more important than ever when running a successful business with so many things to do and less time to do them.  Not only are there never enough hours in the day…

With the start of Season 7 of AMC's hit series "The Walking Dead" slowly advancing toward us, we are now left with not the question of when....but how, or who? Avid watchers will understand the what or the who to which I'm referenci...

Dollar Shave Club’s founder Michael Dubin said something like that in his first viral video about his company, and it completely changed the razor market. For a few bucks a month, his company would ship razors and blades directly to your home ...

We have all read the headlines: Earlier this month, Delta Air Lines experienced a massive power outage that led to the cancellation of thousands of foreign and domestic flights. This seismic event took place at the height of the summer travel season…

Performance Investigator (PI) collects a lot of workload and performance data about the activity which runs within a database instance. This information is saved in the PI embedded repository which is separate from the Foglight repository. As a result…

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In this blog, I want to share a scenario that happens when not all the local components are not present doing a specific type of install.   When selecting ‘Create a New Connection’ | ‘Salesforce’, there is nowhere to ente...

Third-party validation. No, its purpose isn’t just to stroke our egos in admiration. Nor is it a meaningless attaboy. (“Way to go, little Timmy! You did good today, kiddo.”) No, third-party validation acts as affirmation — a g...