Recent Posts by Timothy Mooney

  Regular maintenance of your database fleet is important. Best practices help avoid downtime, both planned and unplanned. It also has proven to cost customers less by using automation, which gives DBAs time to focus on more strategic projects.  Oracle Enterprise Manager Database Lifecycle Management Pack (DBLM) includes automation capabilities making it easier and faster and more reliable to accomplish maintenance tasks, including discovery and inventory tracking, change...

Database Maintenance is a thankless job. It takes time, know-how, and concentration. And yet it's not on anyone's strategic initiatives list. In fact, any comments a DBA hears usually revolve around complaints from those impacted by scheduled downtime for implementing updates, or complaints about taking too many days deploying databases for development or other organizations say it is taking too long. Or worse yet, unplanned downtime caused by applications not responding...

Machine learning is showing up everywhere. The near-ubiquitous help from ‘Siri’ or ‘Alexa’ or ‘hey Google’ allows us to make queries with our voice for example.  Machine learning is driving innovation in every industry, including healthcare, where machine learning helped identify 52%1 of breast cancer diagnoses up to a year ahead of being actually diagnosed. And automotive forecasts predict fully autonomous vehicles on the road in 2022. This begs so many questions, from how...

Collaborate18 at Mandalay Bay Las Vegas | April 22-26 • 1000 sessions • 200 exhibitors Oracle Management Cloud will be well represented at Collaborate18 with Workshops, Demos, Sessions and Social Time.  Attend sessions, use the hands on lab, or ask your questions to Oracle Management Cloud experts at the exhibitor hall. 5 OMC partners exhibiting 6 OMC sessions OMC Workshop 1 OMC Demo Kiosk Plan your OMC schedule: 4/22 Sunday 9:30 am – 4 pm Oracle Cloud Journey Hands-On Lab – Erik...

You get the call, a customer is complaining about a non-responsive application.  Is it the database, or the application? Or something else?  And your journey begins. You check the usual, CPU utilization is okay, so is memory utilization.  It's not long before you're headed to the Database Event Logs to see if it's a problem with the database.   Wouldn't it be nice if there was an easy way to automatically see the application topology? And better yet, the topology and hot spots...

63% of companies surveyed say their number of applications is growing.  66% say managing those applications and databases has a negative impact on competitiveness.  If you are a DBA facing these challenges and striving to be a DBA superstar, you'll learn valuable lessons from my recent interview with Mughees Minhas, Oracle VP, Product Management, Database Management We talked about the DBA's changing role especially around the tools they use, including Enterprise Manager, and...