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Gearing Up for MySQLConf 2010
by Paul Vallee
I’m looking forward to traveling to San Jose for this year’s MySQL Conference. If there’s anything that can trump the drama of conf two years ago, where we observed how Sun would handle its new property, and then the drama of last year, where we observed how Oracle would handle the pending acquisition, it’s going [...] Read more »
When Was Your Last Disaster Recovery Test?
by Alex Gorbachev
If you answer anything else but something like “last month and every month before that”, then you are probably in troubles. Learn from Wikipedia’s Data Center Overheating. It doesn’t mean that they didn’t regularly test their disaster recovery process. Maybe they did but the failover mechanism was broken after the last test. A regular DR procedure validation [...] Read more »
Nobody Killed OpenSolaris — Stop the FUD!
by Alex Gorbachev
I’m tired reading all over the internet — Oracle taking back OpenSolaris, Open Solaris May Die ?, Solaris Is Dead, Save Open Solaris, Oracle taking back OpenSolaris. I’m so sick of it! I see that some don’t even know the difference between OpenSolaris and commercial Oracle Solaris (former Sun Solaris 10)! Wake up people! Oracle did make commercial [...] Read more »
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FreshDirect
Since databases are at the core of its business, FreshDirect has turned to Pythian as its trusted database infrastructure support partner since 2005.
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Watch the recording of Alex Gorbachev’s webinar discussing RAC workload management.
Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Upgrade
Recently, we (Pythian) were one of the prime technical Apps database experts on a rather interesting and challenging Apps R12 upgrade for one of our clients. This paper discusses some of the particularities and challenges of this upgrade and how we solved them, resulting in significant time savings.
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