by Andy Slater | Dec 12, 2018 | Azure, Cloud, Data, DevOps
CASE STUDY ORGANISATION: Santa & the Elves Ltd SECTOR: Not for Profit Digital now spans across the entire organisation, impacting everything from research to customer engagement and internal culture. We’ve gone in with both boots pushing on with... 
by Izzi Fuller | Nov 13, 2018 | Cloud, Data, DevOps, Events, Izzi Fuller, Serverless
Yesterday I attended Day One of Serverless Computing London. Unsurprisingly the theme of the day was ‘serverless’ and the general gist was serverless is here, and it’s here to stay. We explored the past, present and future of serverless, the security risks it brings,... 
by Grahame Dyce | Oct 30, 2018 | Data, Grahame Dyce, SQL Server
General Architecture Planning Network Service Accounts Server Admin Accounts Servers Failover Cluster Storage (Disks) As a Senior Database Consultant with over 20 years experience I’ve configured Always On more times than I can count and I find myself making the... 
by Julian Boneham | Sep 12, 2018 | Azure, Cloud, Data, Julian Boneham, SQL Server
The launch of SQL Server 2008 created a significant turning point where Microsoft customers could be confident their critical applications would operate in a scalable and resilient environment. End-users and application developers alike started to use SQL Server 2008... 
by Grahame Dyce | Sep 6, 2018 | Data, Grahame Dyce, Oracle
This simple two-part procedure will help to diagnose and fix the most common sqlnet and tnsnames configuration problems. TEST COMMUNICATION BETWEEN THE CLIENT AND THE LISTENER We will use tnsping to complete this step. It’s a common misconception... 
by Kate Gawron | Aug 29, 2018 | Kate Gawron, Oracle
Recently I encountered a DLL issue when trying to log in to Oracle on Windows. It’s an issue i’ve not encountered before and it took a little while to figure out so I thought i’d share my solution with you below… THE SCENARIO You log in, set...
