by Buda Consulting | Mar 15, 2023 | Uncategorized
Thin provisioning uses virtualization technology to allocate disk storage capacity on demand as your needs increase. Thick provisioning is the counterpart strategy of pre-allocating storage capacity upfront when you create a virtual disk drive. Thin provisioning...
by Buda Consulting | Feb 2, 2023 | Uncategorized
When we ask our customers why they love working with Buda Consulting, the answer we typically get is that we listen to them and we do what they ask (Apparently this is rare in the database support field). And we almost always do. But not always! The Request When I...
by Buda Consulting | Dec 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
Any company needs its SQL Server databases running efficiently to meet business objectives. But SQL Server DBA skills are most likely not an organizational core competency, and potentially can be outsourced to a remote SQL Server DBA. Is outsourcing SQL server...
by Willie Gray | Aug 17, 2021 | Uncategorized
Welcome to Database Patch News, Buda Consulting’s newsletter of current patch information for Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server. Here you’ll find information recently made available on patches—including security patches—and desupported versions. Why should you care...
by Willie Gray | Mar 15, 2021 | Best Practices, Database Security, Oracle, Oracle DBA, Uncategorized
It was very cold and early on a Monday morning when I received a call from one of my fellow system administrators. He reported that one of our production databases would not come back online after the server hosting the database was restarted. Most DBAs would start...
by Robert Buda | Jan 22, 2021 | Best Practices, Oracle DBA, Uncategorized
We all know that database projects and other technical/IT projects often fail. They are never completed, the results fall far short of expectations, nobody uses the new application, and so on. Why? At the end of the day, if we look beneath the surface-level issues,...
