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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 »

Meet the First Oracle ACE Director in MySQL — Sheeri Cabral

by Alex Gorbachev

I’m excited to share the news that Oracle ACE program has been extended to cover MySQL community now and Pythian’s Sheeri Cabral has become the very first Oracle ACE Director in MySQL expertize area. It’s a special privilege for me to blog about it because I had a pleasure to nominate Sheeri in the [...] 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

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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Why Pythian

Pythian is a global industry-leader in remote database administration services and consulting for Oracle, Oracle Applications, MySQL and SQL Server. Companies trust us to keep their database infrastructure running efficiently while strategically aligning IT with business goals. Pythian's unparalleled database and system administration skills, mature methodologies, best practices and tools enable clients to do more with fewer resources. We offer flexible contracting, fractional resourcing, 24/7 service and global reach. Read more »