by Galileo Team | Feb 17, 2018 | Technical Deep Dives
Although artificial intelligence solutions have been around for several years, these impactful systems are finally making their way into organizations, enabling companies to streamline workflows and eliminate manual, repetitive work. In fact, Gartner named AI as one...
by Justin Bleistein | Apr 22, 2016 | Best Practices, Technical Deep Dives
This blog entry attempts to explain what I believe the Oracle relinking process is all about. Those DBAs who have been working with the Oracle database for a while and sysadmins who have been supporting Oracle database servers for a while have heard of this process....
by Blake Basom | Feb 11, 2016 | Technical Deep Dives
Do you use IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) for AIX server monitoring? What about VIO Servers? VIO Server software now comes with the ITM Premium (va) agent pre-installed. It just needs to be configured to communicate with the HMC and the ITM Server. The va agent monitors...
by Galileo Team | Dec 23, 2015 | Technical Deep Dives
I recently performed some Live Partition Mobility (LPM) testing for a customer, and ran into a number of problems – see Part 1 of this post for the full story on all of the problems and solutions. The most complicated problem required us to investigate our SAN storage...
by Galileo Team | Dec 16, 2015 | Technical Deep Dives
I hadn’t touched Live Partition Mobility for a couple years, but a customer requested that I test LPM for them on several AIX LPARs which were giving them errors when they attempted the LPM operations. I had successfully performed LPM operations for this customer on...
by Galileo Team | Dec 10, 2015 | Technical Deep Dives
This blog entry presents a basic introduction to Oracle execution plans. What exactly is an Oracle execution plan? An execution plan consists of the steps that the database server will take to accomplish a DML statement, e.g. SELECT, INSERT, DELETE, UPDATE, etc. The...
