Changing IT professionals for the better
The technology industry is always rapidly changing. It’s not a good fit for someone who’s resistant to change, and yet we see a lot of IT professionals becoming stagnant anyways. … Read more
Excerpt from “Oracle analytic functions: tips and tricks”
Infolob’s lead Oracle DBA, Ravi Kumar, recently co-authored an article in OraWorld with Mari Kupatadze of FlashGrid detailing some tips for utilizing analytic functions with Oracle databases in order to … Read more
Open source or licensed? Automated testing for Oracle applications
Open Source tool based automated testing is freely available and widely used, and there’s an impressive array of open source tools used for different types of testing. For enterprise applications, … Read more
Bare metal in the cloud: a lesson in superiority
“Why are you still running on-prem instead of in the cloud?” It’s an easy enough question to ask, but you’ll get an infinite number of answers, including ones that disparage … Read more
Cloud adoption: how does shifting to a cloud ERP solution impact your employees?
There’s been a rise in cloud computing in general, but shifting from on-prem ERP software to cloud SaaS ERP is particularly hot right now. Cloud-based ERP reduces costs in several … Read more
Maximizing the ROI of your Exadata investment!
Infolob Solutions is the premier Oracle Exadata implementation partner in the US today. Oracle Corp constantly features us as their go-to partner and we have more than 50 engagements where … Read more
Oracle 12c: Parallel processing and why it matters
Parallel processing in Oracle database 12c Improving performance (and by this, we usually mean query performance) is always a hot item with database administrators and users. One of the best … Read more
SQL injections
In this article, I would like to describe one of the most dangerous and sophisticated ways of hacking databases based on the implementation of arbitrary SQL code into the database … Read more
Detecting dead Oracle database connections
In my 20+ years of working with Oracle databases, I have heard the same question asked many times: “When does the Oracle database clean up dead client connections?” In every … Read more