Recent Posts by Laura Ramsey

...but you need business continuity, high availability, scalability, combined with automatic management for your IT infrastructure and cloud deployments. Oracle Database with the Real Application Clusters (RAC) option is probably what you're looking for. Originally focused on providing improved database services, Oracle RAC has evolved over the years and is now based on a comprehensive high availability (HA) stack that can be used as the foundation of a database cloud system...

Finally, a centralized way to manage all the encryption keys and credential files in the data center.    Critical credential files such as Oracle wallet files, Java KeyStores, Secure Shell (SSH) key files, and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate files are often widely distributed across servers and server clusters that use error-prone synchronization and backup mechanisms. As organizations increasingly encrypt data at rest and on the network, securely managing all the...

Yes, We did.   Here's why: JSON is practically a subset of the object literal notation of JavaScript, so it can be used to represent JavaScript object literals. This means JSON can serve as a data-interchange language. Although it was defined in the context of JavaScript, JSON is in fact a language-independent data format. A variety of programming languages can parse and generate JSON data. Additionally, JSON can often be used in JavaScript programs without requiring parsing...

...with the long awaited In-Memory option, plus 21 new features. Oracle Database 12c Release 12.1.0.2 supports Linux and Oracle Solaris (SPARC and x86 64 bit). Get the download here. And for those of us who just LOVE *sparknotes, here's a quick index of those new features with quick links from good friends and scribes in the Oracle Doc group.  But first, a cool picture.        Sea Dragon photo taken at the Birch Aquarium in San Diego by my friend Joel Broude, a veteran of the...

ATTN: Oracle DBAs: Oracle has published its Critical Patch Advisory dated July 15, 2014.  Get the advisory Here.  Here's what you need to know: This Critical Patch Update provides 113 new security fixes across a wide range of product families including: Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Java SE, Oracle Linux and Virtualization, Oracle MySQL, Oracle Hyperion, Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control, Oracle E-Business Suite, and Oracle Business Applications and...

Oracle has just launched Oracle Big Data SQL.  Watch the replay of the web launch here.       And it's interesting.  Big Data is unstructured. It's widely varied. And it "sits" in many places. Stovepipes. Caves. Vaults. And thanks to innovations from the Exadata technologies, this unstructured data can now be successfully and efficiently queried using Structured Query Language. (SQL)  That is to say: An approach to providing unified query over data in Oracle Database, Hadoop and...

        Learning your way around a new software stack is challenging enough without having to spend multiple cycles on the install process. Instead, we have packaged such stacks into pre-built Oracle VM VirtualBox appliances that you can download, install, and experience as a single unit. Just downloaded/assemble the files, import into VirtualBox (available for free), import, and go (but not for production use or redistribution)!   Some of these VMs are designed to support...

   If you're talking database connectivity, JDBC deserves a good look.   According to Sun's JDBC page, the Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) API is the industry standard for database-independent connectivity between the Java programming language and a wide range of databases—SQL databases and other tabular data sources, such as spreadsheets or flat files. The JDBC API provides a call-level API for SQL-based database access. JDBC technology allows you to use the Java programming...

The best part about preparing for the upcoming OTN Virtual Technology Summit is reading up on the technology we'll be presenting. Today's reading: Disaster recovery with Oracle Data Guard... it's an essential capability that every Oracle DBA should master. How do you achieve the highest levels of availability resulting in zero or near-zero downtime for both planned maintenance activities or unplanned outages?  Most Oracle DBAs use the combination of Oracle Active Data Guard...