Sean Hull is a business and technology consultant, author and speaker. He is the founder and senior consultant at Heavyweight Internet Group in New York and has worked as a database consultant and expert for ten years. He is the author of “Oracle and Open Source” on O’Reilly & Associates and his articles have appeared in Oracle’s own OTN website, DBA Zine, ChangeThis.com, and many others. Using techniques, technologies, and perspectives discussed in the book, articles, and seminars, he has taken his career into exciting areas. He has served as Technology Consultant, Project Manager, CEO, and mentor with a background in programming, systems integration & administration, project development and management. He can be reached at shull@iheavy.com or visit http://www.iheavy.com for more info about consulting services.
References
BOOK: Oracle & Open Source
OTN Article Jan 2005: “PHP vs. ASP.NET Redux”
OTN Article Jan 2004: “PHP and ASP.NET Go Head-to-Head”
EFY Group, New Delhi Jan 2005: “Open Source PBX with Asterisk”
DBA Online Lecture, May 2 2003 – Oracle 9iRAC on Linux/Firewire
NYOUG Lecture, Mar 12, 2003 – Building 9iRAC db on lowcost Linux servers
Choosing an Oracle Open Source Web Technology
Oracle Open Source Directory
Karma – How to Monitor Multiple Oracle Databases – presented at NYOUG General Meeting, Mar, 1999.
Current Articles
MySQL Hotbackups with XtraBackup
– November 16, 2010
Inside MySQL Character Sets & Settings
– October 15, 2010
MySQL Server Benchmarking 101
– October 12, 2010
Inside MySQL Binary Logs
– September 16, 2010
MySQL in Amazon EC2 – Beginners Guide
– August 17, 2010
How to Use Multi-Master MySQL to Get a Leg Up on Database Performance
– July 20, 2010
Top 10 IBM Information Management Trends
– July 14, 2010
An Introduction to Multi-Master MySQL
– July 9, 2010
Even More Maatkit for MySQL
– June 15, 2010
The Wonders of Maatkit for MySQL
– May 18, 2010
MySQL Exotic Storage Engines
– April 8, 2010
Survey of MySQL Storage Engines
– March 11, 2010
DRBD and MySQL – Heartbeat Setup
– February 11, 2010
DRBD and MySQL – Virtualbox Setup
– January 4, 2010
DRBD and MySQL – Excellent Low-cost HA Solution
– December 10, 2009
Bigger and Better MySQL
– November 10, 2009
Faster & Stronger MySQL
– October 8, 2009
7 Ways To Crash a Database
– August 13, 2009
MySQL: Five More Dials To Turn
– July 9, 2009
MySQL: Five Dials to Set
– June 12, 2009
MySQL Clustering in a Sandbox
– May 8, 2009
Five Query Optimizations in MySQL
– April 6, 2009
Optimizing the MySQL Query Cache
– March 12, 2009
Advanced MySQL Replication – Improving Performance
– February 12, 2009
Intro to MySQL Proxy
– January 15, 2009
Fixing MySQL Replication – December 1, 2008
MySQL Replication Pitfalls – November 13, 2008
Intro to Oracle’s Automatic Workload Repository (AWR) – October 14, 2008
Intro to PHP + Oracle – August 14, 2008
DBA Insider – Useful PL/SQL Packages – July 10, 2008
Oracle Automatic Storage Management – June 12, 2008
Programming, Perl + Oracle – May 5, 2008
Oracle Indexing – What, Where, When? – April 10, 2008
Create a Database Manually – When & Why? – March 12, 2008
Migrating MySQL to Oracle Part 2 – February 14, 2008
Migrating MySQL to Oracle Part I – January 10, 2008
Eight Ways to Hack Oracle – Part 2 – December 13, 2007
Eight Ways to Hack Oracle – November 6, 2007
Oracle, MySQL and PostgreSQL feature comparison – Part 2 – October 11, 2007
Oracle, MySQL and PostgreSQL feature comparison – Part 1 – August 9, 2007
Open-source Technologies for Oracle DBAs and Developers – Part 2 – July 17, 2007
Open-source Technologies for Oracle DBAs and Developers – July 12, 2007
Manual Standby Database under Oracle Standard Edition – June 14, 2007
DBA Interview Questions – May 17, 2007
