Storage for DBAs: Ever been to one of those sushi restaurants where the food comes round in dishes on a conveyor belt? As each dish travels around the loop you eye it up and, as long as you can mak…| flashdba
Over the course of the last few blog posts, we’ve looked at how an increasing number of database workloads are migrating to the cloud, how there is more than one path to get there… and …| flashdba
Imagine the scenario where you wonder into a clothing store to buy a t-shirt. You find a design you like in size “Medium” but it’s too tight (I guess #lockdown has been unkind to …| flashdba
I want you to imagine that you check in to a nice hotel. You’ve had a good day and you feel like treating yourself, so you decide to order breakfast in your room for the following morning. Wh…| flashdba
What happens when customers with on-prem databases decide they want to embrace the public cloud? If you’ve been following the story so far, it is my assertion that most of “the easy stu…| flashdba
There’s a battle going on right now between all of the public cloud vendors – a war in the clouds. And you might be surprised to hear what they are fighting over… They are fightin…| flashdba
Now is the winter of our discontent. But rather than dwell on what a terrible year 2020 has been, I thought I’d make my final post of the year something more positive… so I am going to look back on one of the (many) times I made a fool of myself, in the hope that […]| flashdba
Unless you are Larry Ellison (hi Larry!), the chances are you probably live in a normal house or an apartment, maybe with your family. You have a limited number of bedrooms, so if you want to have friends or relatives come to stay with you, there will come point where you cannot fit anybody else […]| flashdba
In the previous post, I ranted discussed the evolution of the DBA role, looking at how many additional functions the database administrator has inherited over the years: code fixer, virtualisation tamer, Linux / Windows juggler, reluctant storage administrator, application server hater, firewall botherer and all round fixer of any product badged as Oracle. But the […]| flashdba
In the previous post, I looked at Gartner’s recent assertion that 75% of databases will be deployed to the cloud by 2022 – and that the cloud is now the default platform for managing da…| flashdba
I recently stumbled across a tech news post which surprised me so much I nearly dropped my mojito. The headline of this article screamed: Gartner Says the Future of the Database Market Is th…| flashdba