Delphix – Defender of your SAN
One of the less obvious advantages of database virtualization is a reduction in the read I/O issued against the underlying physical storage (henceforth called “the SAN”) that ultimately stores the data...
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Given a description of gas dynamics and the atmosphere, you would be hard to pressed forecast tornadoes. The term emergence denotes the phenomena of surprising behaviors arising in complex systems....
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I’m often surprised at how small the buffer caches allocated to Oracle databases are. When I started as a DBA at Amazon in the early 2000′s, we were moving our Oracle databases to 32-bit Linux. I...
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