Nikola Domazet is an Oracle Database Consultant at RDB Consulting. He is an Oracle 11g Certified Professional and is currently studying towards Oracle Security Certification. Since beginning his career at RDB Consulting, Nikola has supported a number of clients including SANRAL and Fintech. This has provided him with extensive experience working with Oracle and most…
James Harper is an Oracle Database Consultant at RDB Consulting. He is an 11g Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) and plans to specialise in Real Application Clusters (RAC) and Security in the near future. As a Database Consultant, James is responsible for implementing and upgrading new Oracle Database Systems. He is part of RDB Consulting on-site…
By Antoinette Naude and Leon Rossouw, Oracle Database Consultants at RDB Consulting I recently had the privilege of attending Oracle’s OpenWorld 2012 event, held in San Francisco in September. Attended by over 30 000 delegates from all over the world, the event is the world’s largest conference for Oracle customers and technologists. Joined by Leon…
By Bora Perzic Business Process Management (BPM) is a method of understanding, documenting, analyzing, executing and continuously changing business processes and relevant resources with a purpose of improving the value an organization creates for its customers. SMB in the BPM initiatives Traditionally Small and Medium Business is organized functionally (Marketing, Sales, Delivery and Accounting) and…
By Gerrit-Jan Albers, Service Delivery Manager at RDB Consulting Oracle regularly releases critical patch updates. These patches are created to resolve a bug or glitch in the system, or to increase the security and effectiveness of the system. It’s important to take note of these updates because it can have an impact on how the…
Anthony Fourie, a Microsoft SQL Server/Sybase team leader at RDB Consulting recently had the opportunity to present a talk on the art of Policy Management. You may remember Anthony as his profile recently appeared on our blog. We heard that his presentation went remarkably well and have asked Anthony to share his experience with us: SQL…
Anthony Fourie, Microsoft SQL Server Team Leader and Lee-Ann Cloete, a Database Consultant at RDB Consulting, recently attended the SQL Bits X conference in London this year. SQL Bits X is the largest SQL event in Europe with over 900 attendees per day. The sold out event took place on 29 – 31 March 2011…
Leon Rossouw is currently employed as an Oracle Database Consultant at RDB Consulting. He’s an 11g Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) and one of his key areas of expertise is Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). Leon has extensive database administration experience and has been working on Oracle Databases and Applications since 2007. What he enjoys most about…
Antoinette is one of the veterans here at RDB Consulting as she’s been a part of the team since mid-2008. As a Senior Database Consultant, Antoinette spends most of her time at one of our larger clients, MTN. She loves interacting with people from all teams at the client site and has been an invaluable asset…
By Jaroslav Cerny Outsourcing DBA services has become increasingly popular over the past few years, largely due to its cost-effective “pay as you go” model. While many companies are happy with their outsourced DBA services, others feel disappointed by the level of service they are receiving. This is understandable, seeing as there are outsource service…
