Introduction As data’s importance in business grows, so do the pressures it exerts on modern organizations. In the wake of these demands—or Drivers, as outlined in SAPinsider’s DART (Drivers, Action, Requirements, Technologies) model—enterprises strive to turn data into value. As…

As a managed service company, we see our customers and partners shifting their workloads to the cloud. There are various reasons for this decision, but the most important ones are cost and agility. Once on a cloud, the infrastructure team…

This week was the Texas Cyber Summit, held in Austin for the first time. Living in Austin for over a decade may make me a little biased but I believe this was the best year yet! Now, is that correlation…

Last weekend we upgraded a database from 11.2.0.4 to 19.10 for one of our clients. This database is running on Exadata HW with 2 standby databases configured. As part of planning this upgrade, we removed one of the standby databases…

With Pythian’s Enterprise Data Platform (EDP) QuickStart, customers extract exceptional business value. It demonstrates tangible proof that their data can be quickly integrated into the platform and used to drive powerful insights. Implemented in days and fully customized in less…

Technique for measuring network latency to oracle database services with no access to the underlying server.

Episode 65 Shownotes Welcome to another episode of the Datascape Podcast. In this episode, the hosts discuss updates from Databricks as a product and its open-source projects. Tune in to hear about new integrations, improved features, performance optimization capabilities, proprietary…

This blog post is about a scenario where a combination of a logon trigger performing DML operations at user login time (writing to a custom audit table), and a Fast recovery area (FRA) full situation brings the database to a…

The dynamics of work have fundamentally changed in the past three years. Data has been a large driver of this change, providing better information to candidates about organizations they are considering joining and enabling employers to better understand what makes…

Google Cloud storage provides a secure storage layer that is a cost-effective foundation of the platform.    When you ingest raw data into the platform, it is stored in a cloud storage bucket in its raw data format before any…