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Paul Vallee, Pythian Founder, Named to Ottawa Business Journal’s Forty Under 40

by Vanessa Simmons

Pythian is pleased to announce that Paul Vallee, Pythian’s Founder and Executive Chairman, has been named as one of Ottawa’s rising stars on Ottawa Business Journal’s 2011 Forty Under Forty list. The Forty Under 40 recognizes the amazing achievements of forty accomplished business people under the age of forty. After careful review, the judges, a [...] Read more »

Handling Human Errors

by Alex Gorbachev

Interesting question on human mistakes was posted on the DBA Managers Forum discussions today. As human beings, we are sometimes make mistakes. How do you make sure that your employees won’t make mistakes and cause downtime/data loss/etc on your critical production systems? I don’t think we can avoid this technically, probably working procedures is the [...] Read more »

We don’t call it COLLABORATE for nothing

by abbey

When is the last time you consulted with one of your colleagues to solve a technical dilemma … let me stop for a second … not in the last 13 minutes :) collaborate: –verb (used without object), -rat·ed, -rat·ing. to work, one with another; cooperate, as on a literary work: They collaborated on a novel [...] 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 »