Exadata Storage Maintenance
Managing an Exadata Server is a great way to jump from being a normal DBA to great DMA (Database Machine Administrator), and get into the nitty-gritty details of storage administration. This tip will share some Exadata Storage maintenance jobs, how to manage them and at which logs to look.

Moving to the Cloud? Here are a Few Questions to Ask
If you are in any IT role, you are probably part of teams and/or initiatives that want to move your organization to the cloud in whole or in part.

An IOUG Member Perspective on 'Behind Every Cloud Transformation, There’s Well-Functioning IT'
Enterprise IT responsibilities are growing the number of applications, and the amount of data being managed is continuing to grow. The release of the ‘2018 Information Technology Performance Excellence Survey: Behind Every Cloud Transformation, There’s Well-Functioning IT’

OOW17: Impressions From the Trenches
Back in the early Oughties of this century, I attended a meeting in downtown Chicago at which Oracle announced the imminent release of Oracle Database 10g.

The Data Lake Challenge
The time has arrived for the Data Lake to come of age. We now have the technology to build a vibrant and productive solution which can evolve a company into an agile data-driven organization.