At this year’s Oracle OpenWorld people from Larry Ellison on down were talking about Docker containers. I do not remember the subject coming up in the Oracle community in previous years. Before I start to get into why Oracle talking about Docker containers is important I should probably talk about what Docker containers are and what they are good for (and bad for). You probably have some experience with the concept of virtual machines, which are simulated computers running inside your physical computer. You can get Virtual Machine management software (like VMWare or Virtual Box from Oracle) and use it Read More
Monthly Archives September 2016
MySQL Team Announces Version 8
The MySQL team has announced “version 8“, you can see highlights of the planned release at the link. You can find internal documentation on MySQL 8 here. This will be useful to developers and DBAs trying to understand what’s going on inside MySQL. The MySQL Team blog will be a good source of ongoing information. Another member of the MySQL team with a blog is Morgan Tocker. He calls it Master MySQL. You know, MySQL is a very popular database for “Web applications”. That is more due to the fact that it was easy for application developers to use without help from DBAs that Read More
What’s New with the Oracle Database Appliance
Earlier this summer, Oracle announced single node versions of the X6 generation Oracle Database Appliance (ODA). At OpenWorld 2016, the ODA team was showing a new two node X6-HA which Principal Product Manager Paul Tsien told me would be shipping by start of 2017, and will support RAC as the name implies, as well as virtualization. I went to a presentation by Erik Brenner of Mythics (which you could think of as an EC Wise competitor with a very large Oracle practice), who reported that the X6-HA would have fewer cores but more memory and storage, and could do up Read More
