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…
As a database developer or DBA, you’ve lacked the proper tools to help you keep pace with the rest of your organization. You’ve watched your app-developing colleagues across the hall use agile to whiz through product releases and embrace DevOps to automate…
To all you DBAs and database performance monitoring enthusiasts out there: Have you gotten your copy of the survey The Real World of the Database Administrator yet?
In my previous post, I highlighted several facts of DBA life noted in the survey, including…
...So you can start building a water weenie.
Sure, you can spend your whole summer working on SQL Server performance tuning, but wouldn’t you really rather build and operate your own water weenie, like Windell here?
I thought so.
Windell is a…
It’s crazy - technology and business are moving faster than ever and you’re sprinting just to keep up. Meanwhile, your workday is wasted on tons of repetitive, day-to-day tasks. That’s why we hosted a Virtual Tradeshow.
The bad news…
Let’s face it: We can’t all be the kind of hero who saves the world. But as a database administrator, if you could simplify database migrations and upgrades in your company, wouldn’t that make you a hero with your users and co-workers?…
I meet a lot of database developers who have agile envy. Are you one of them?
Do you see your counterparts on the application development teams scrumming and sprinting their way to shorter product cycles? Do you watch app developers release 25 updates…
