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Amazon RDS for Oracle: First Impressions

On Tuesday, Amazon announced availability of an Oracle version of their Relational Database Service (RDS). RDS is one of Amazon’s cloud services.

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Determining optimal Amazon S3 transfer parallelism

Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) is a robust, inexpensive and highly-available internet data storage service.

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Oracle tablespace hot backup mode revisited

Oracle’s pre-RMAN hot backup mode is the subject of one of the most pervasive and persistent misconceptions about Oracle.

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Good OCP / Bad OCP

For those contemplating launching a career in Oracle database administration, there are essentially three routes.

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How Incompetence Stimulates the Information Technology Economy

As information technology professionals, we constantly complain about mismanaged projects in which we have the misfortune to be involved.

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Converting Hexadecimal Oracle SCNs to Decimal

Oracle serializes transactions and manages concurrency and recovery using an ever-increasing number called a system change number, or SCN.

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ORA-00054: Resource Busy and Acquire With NOWAIT Specified

Ora-00054 fix! Learn how to resolve Oracle errors, including this truncate error: ORA-00054: Resource Busy and Acquire With NOWAIT Specified.