We have activated the “Ideas” portal on the Stat community for Enhancement Request submissions. Anyone in the Community can now post their enhancement requests on the Ideas portal. Community members along with Quest internal employees will be able to…
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As our world becomes faster, our lives busier, our days longer, any shortcut we can find and share with friends is a good thing.
Below is a list of keyboard shortcuts that I use frequently within Stat. I hope that you find them useful as well.
…With the advent of Oracle Release 12.2.x, Oracle has delivered to its customers the ability to do online patching for their environments. According to Oracle, this new feature will help customers “greatly reduce the downtime that was needed in previous…
You’re in the tech industry, you love the latest gadgets and gizmos, you’re all about innovation ― and yet you’re stuck wrangling all the moving parts of managing application changes…manually?
There are probably…
How much of change management, version control and migration management is art, and how much is science?
I worked for an IT director who had been through dozens of audits and migrations. He used to talk about “the Art and Science of IT.”
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We have robots that clean floors, planes that practically fly themselves and soon we’ll all be riding around in driverless cars. So why are IT managers, of all people, still expected to do so much work…manually?
Dude, where’s my automation…
Root canal, appendectomy, IT audit. Which is the most painful? Well, considering you’re numb with your feet up for the first two, I’d have to pick the latter.
Few things in life are more of a pain, and cause more stress, than the dreaded…
From large enterprises to small businesses, organizations today generally recognize the range of opportunities and potential benefits they can achieve by analyzing big data. Whether the plan is to draw from social media posts to create targeted marketing…
Business intelligence (BI) is not just for big corporations. In higher education, colleges and universities of all sizes rely on BI solutions to analyze data from multiple sources and deliver reports that help streamline administration and improve student…
In no uncertain terms, the use of predictive analytics is crucial for SMBs to remain competitive. A recent survey revealed that companies that rate themselves substantially ahead of their peers in their use of data are three times more likely to rate…
Data scientists are in high demand. Across a range of industries, organizations are searching for highly skilled data scientists (aka data analysts) who can make sense of the rapidly rising volume, variety and velocity of data available today. Those data…
In my two previous posts I covered performance management and database maintenance in Toad™ DBA Suite for Oracle®. I’ve been emphasizing how Toad complements Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) for most DBA tasks and can…
New homes generally rock – and Toad’s new lily pad at Dell is no exception. We’re not saying Quest.com wasn’t great, but Toad is moving up in the world and has a new address at Quest.com.
But as soon as Toad’s all moved in, there…
Adopting new technologies that best fit your company’s business challenges can be a difficult process. Separating the marketing speak from true business value causes many firms to take a wait and see attitude towards cutting edge solutions creating innovation…
Innovative companies are adopting advanced analytics to take action and match the speed of their business. This is especially true in the world of manufacturing where complicated process driven activities benefit greatly from smarter, faster analytic…
I recently returned from a prominent event in the analytics and business intelligence space, and even having been home for a few days, my excitement over where the industry is headed stemming from all the great discussion I heard during the week continues…
Smart phones were the harbingers of the connected future as they transformed from merely portals for consuming information into sensors and location-based signaling tools. But the Internet of Things (IoT) takes that to another level where relatively inexpensive…
This month’s #ThinkChat discussion on Friday, June 5 at 11:00 AM PST is focused on the role that Microsoft, a Dell partner, plays in mid-market enterprises and how new data challenges and opportunities are being addressed. Microsoft has capabilities…
You might have heard that the term "big data" is over-hyped. And maybe you have heard it already slid into the “trough of disillusionment” (as far back as early 2013, if you believe everything you read on the Internet). Even assuming these assessments…
“Why would you use a Ferrari to haul a load of dirt?”
Yeah. Why would you?
Photo Credit: Falk Lademann
You wouldn’t, of course, at least not knowingly. But a few months into the Great Analytics Migration I described last…
Sometimes authorizing a product can be confusing with the terms that are used.
As with many Quest products, there is a two-step authorization process.
A license key or Authorization key will need to be inputted; along with its Site Message string.
These…
While I certainly appreciate Boston for its history, chowder, and marathon, it is the predictive analytics scene that keeps bringing us back year after year. I know that sounds odd, but the annual Predictive Analytics World (PAW) Boston event is a natural…
When you’re up to your ears in a database upgrade project, like an upgrade to Oracle 12c, you begin to look forward to little things.
Like going a few hours with no system notifications or text messages from your DevOps team.
Like buying…
Were you ever sitting in a salary review when you suddenly discovered that you and your boss had different ideas about your most important responsibilities?
Not every DBA has a position-specific job description, and even those who do may not have…
How do you know whether DevOps is right for you?
Well . . .
