Success is about Imagination

photo by Jason Mrachina As a (recovering) Mechanical Engineer, one of the things I’ve studied in the past is Design for Assembly (DFA)....

For a quick write up on what Delphix and database virtualizaition is , see http://www.kylehailey.com/what-is-delphix/ For a quick writeup...

Had a great time at the East Coast Oracle (ECO) users group conference last week in Durham, NC. Here are the slides Here the a video  of...

Twitter question: “Can anyone give me a link to a very short itemized list of Delphix benefits?” First,  short   summary: Delphix is the...

photo Celestine Chua “Do you think the great Skeeve has nothing to do with his time but guard your borders? Do you want to tie up your...

I met with a customer today who described for me the challenges they had in their previous 10g to 11g Oracle database upgrade. Their...

When I read Eliyahu Goldratt’s the Goal in Grad School, one of the key things that stuck with me is that there’s always a bottleneck and...

“I’ve been trained in the theory of constraints and one of the things I think is so powerful is the notion of the constraint in the value...

Oaktable World UK 2013 Oaktable World continues it’s global tour with the next stop in Manchester, UK during the UKOUG. Scale Abilities...

“Self-service is awesome; if they can get work done without opening a ticket, we’re winning.” – Kelsey Hightower via Gene Kim, author of...

The DevOps approach to software delivery manages risk by applying change in small packages instead of big releases. By increasing release...

photos by Keith Ramsey and Automotive Rhythms People are hearing more about Delphix and data virtualization. Data virtualization is where...

We’re copying and moving redundant bits In any application environment, we’re moving a lot of bits. We move bits to create copies of Prod...

Nicer formating at https://sites.google.com/site/oraclemonitor/r-slicing-and-dicing-data R data types Converting columns into vectors...

Why Subsets qualify as an inferior good Why are you sub-setting your data? Even with the cost of spinning disk falling by half every 18...

Data Agility feels like photo by jasephotos Data glut data feels like photo by Christophe Pfeilstücker There is a problem in the IT...

By: Woody Evans “The most powerful thing that organization can do is to enable  development and testing to get environments when they...

Oracle 12c introduces the new Pluggable Database (PDB) functionality into the Oracle database. What’s the advantage of PDBs? PDBs...

By: Woody Evans Data is Scarce Data faces a scarcity problem. In particular, we have a data clone scarcity problem. Our need for data...

Who is Delphix? More and more I’m asked “What is Delphix?” One reason I’m getting asked is because Delphix is getting more and more...