Karen Reliford

Table partitioning is a feature often used in large databases with very large tables as a means to help improve the performance of accessing data in those

With the much-anticipated release of the 12c Database, Oracle has added many new features. Easily the most significant is the concept of multi-tenant

Many of the activities that DBAs do through the Oracle Enterprise Manager 12 Cloud Control GUI interface can also be accomplished via the Command Line

Many of the activities that DBAs do through the Oracle Enterprise Manager 12 Cloud Control GUI interface can also be accomplished via the Command Line

Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c brings a wealth of configuration, monitoring and maintenance tools to DBAs. The primary emphasis of OEM 12c is the web-based

Quickly identifying real time SQL performance issues has been one of the biggest headaches for Oracle DBAs.  Often DBAs are asked, why has the system

In my article last month we started looking at using the Data Masking Pack in order to address the balance between needing to protect the data and the

In order to be effective, developers and the team performing system and QA testing need to have a test system that is realistic in terms of both volumes

Oracle Exadata Database Machine provides a very powerful all-inclusive solution for highly available databases and extremely fast IO access to data. 

Monitoring Oracle targets (databases, host systems, listeners, etc.) is another key responsibility of DBAs.  Since Oracle 10g, we've been able to

Monitoring target systems is a critical responsibility of today's database and system administrators. DBAs and SAs are responsible to ensure our systems

Monitoring target systems is a critical responsibility of today's database and system administrators. DBA's and SA's are responsible to ensure our systems