February 14, 2016 In September 2014 I posted an article on this blog where I mentioned that I am the IT Manager and an Oracle Database administrator at a company that specializes in welding and machining very large metal parts – in the article I attempted a bit of humor while trying to explain a few items.  […]

October 9, 2015 In 2006 I did a bit of experimentation with an Oracle characterset that supports Unicode (AL32UTF8 if I remember correctly) using Oracle Database 10.2.0.2.  That test, performed on a desktop computer with a bit less than 1GB of RDRAM (Rambus) memory, was a huge failure, and not just because the computer did not […]

August 16, 2015 Three and a half years ago I offered the Hyper-Extended Oracle Performance 6.0 Beta for download – that Beta version expired a year later.  This program has been somewhat of a pet project for the last 13 years (almost 10 years at the time of the previous Beta offering), so I was […]

July 26, 2013 (Back to the Previous Post in the Series) In the previous article of this series I provided steps to install and run the Nagios network monitoring utility on either a Synology DiskStation DS1813+ or a DS412+ for the purpose of pinging network devices to verify that the devices respond to ping requests.  […]

July 26, 2013 (Back to the Previous Post in the Series) (Forward to the Next Post in the Series) In the previous article of this series I provided steps to install and run the Nagios network monitoring utility on either a Synology DiskStation DS1813+ or a DS412+ for the purpose of pinging network devices to verify […]

July 19, 2013 (Modified July 27, 2013, July 28, 2013, November 19, 2013) (Forward to the Next Post in the Series) —- Update July 27, 2013: I now have Nagios running on an ARM based Synology DiskStation DS212+.  Most of the steps are the same as outlined below, however there are a few additional errors […]

July 19, 2013 (Modified July 27, 2013, July 28, 2013, November 19, 2013) (Forward to the Next Post in the Series) —- Update July 27, 2013: I now have Nagios running on an ARM based Synology DiskStation DS212+.  Most of the steps are the same as outlined below, however there are a few additional errors […]

March 24, 2013 As I type this blog article I am in the middle of reading a second book on the topic of Windows Server 2008 R2.  I bought the books several months ago, possibly even a year or two ago, and just had not found the time to invest in reading yet another dry […]

March 24, 2013 As I type this blog article I am in the middle of reading a second book on the topic of Windows Server 2008 R2.  I bought the books several months ago, possibly even a year or two ago, and just had not found the time to invest in reading yet another dry […]

February 14, 2013 A couple of days ago I noticed that an interesting set of search keywords were used to access this blog.  The search keywords: What does it mean when a select statement in Oracle is using 100% cpu I had two thoughts when I first saw that set of search keywords: Well Done! […]