You will end up here: v$dnfs_servers returns no rows. You’ve checked everything. The library is linked. The alert log shows dNFS loaded. Your oranfstab is syntactically perfect. The NFS mounts are there. And you’re convinced it’s broken, I was too. I spent three hours proving dNFS was configured correctly while simultaneously proving it wasn’t working. […]
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The Economics of Data Gravity In 2010, Dave McCrory introduced the concept of “data gravity” to describe a phenomenon IT professionals were increasingly experiencing: as data accumulates in one location, it becomes harder to move, and the systems that depend on it tend to cluster nearby. The metaphor suggested that data, like physical mass, exerts
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Your storage vendor claims 500K IOPS. Your server vendor promises 128 cores of “enterprise-grade performance.” Your hypervisor can “easily handle” 50 VMs. Your network fabric has “plenty of headroom.” Then you consolidate eight production databases onto the platform and everything falls over at 3 AM on a Tuesday. What happened? Nobody actually tested what happens
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This is the second in my series analyzing data centirc markets. Read part one: Demystifying the Database Market in 2025. According to Gartner (2024), by 2027, 80% of data and analytics governance initiatives will fail due to a lack of a real or manufactured crisis. This is a pretty loaded statement, because it tells us
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This is the unmanaged experience of Apache Spark in 2025, and it is a Screen Play in length, you were warned! P.s. – Netflix greenlight me! A few weeks ago, I dove deep into Apache Spark through hands-on implementation of a Customer 360 use case, using the medallion pipeline processing architecture (Bronze → Silver →
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The Database Management System Market in Plain Language Your job, unfortunately, depends on a database doing what it’s supposed to: record the firm’s relationship to money in a structured format. If that database went away the world would absolutely collapse. I wish I was kidding, but think about it: if your corporate ERP system goes
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I first began working with databases when I was an undergrad doing Computer Science. There was a module that ran tutorials for data manipulation against an Oracle database using SQL. I remember what I was thinking when trying to figure out how to get the correct output : “I don’t understand, why won’t it work!”.
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There are many database benchmarking and testing tools that can be used to understand how a system might behave under specific circumstances. Each one of these has a specialism, some of them are designed for unit testing while others are workload oriented. After several years working towards this goal I am excited to announce my
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