Oracle Database

Since our formation in 2001, Blue Gecko has attracted some of the best Oracle hosting talent in the world.  We are regularly invited to speak at such recognized events as Oracle OpenWorld, Collaborate, and many regional Oracle user group conferences such as Western Washington Oracle User Group Northern California Oracle User Group, and Rocky Mountain Oracle User Group.  Our Oracle DBAs are active members and organizers of regional Oracle user groups, such as the Northwest Oracle Users Group, Puget Sound Oracle Users Group, and Western Washington Oracle Users group.

We strive to maintain a high level of technical ability, and actively share that knowledge with the Oracle community through our speaking engagements, published works, and web content including our white papers, technical blog, and free resources like our collection of SQL scripts.

Our Oracle People

JJ Ecker is a co-founder at Blue Gecko, and is responsible for maintaining and growing Oracle database support operations.  JJ has been working on Oracle/UNIX based systems for over 20 years.  He specializes in performance tuning for large, complex installations.  His experience includes consulting for the core technologies and telecommunications groups at Oracle, and the Oracle architecture and scalability team lead for Amazon.com.

Jeremiah Wilton is an internationally-recognized Oracle expert and thought-leader.  He was the first Oracle DBA at Amazon.com, and is a fixure at such events as Oracle Openworld, Collaborate and UKOUG.  A published author and accomplished presenter, Jeremiah has been recognized as one of the first eight Oracle Certified Masters in the world and is a member of the Oak Table.

Oracle Support Overview

Blue Gecko specializes in operational support for Oracle databases.  We are particularly skilled in performance tuning and disaster recovery, and will help customers with any version of Oracle on any operating system, regardless of their status with Oracle support.  We routinely perform Oracle administrative tasks such as:

• Performance tuning
• Disaster recovery strategy and implemenation using RMAN, Data Guard, and RAC
• Space and memory management
• Upgrade, patching, and platform migration support from releases 7 through the latest 11g.
• Advocacy with Oracle Support
• ETL and data warehouse tuning
• Partition and physical space mantenance
• Database job automation
• Oracle hosting on Amazon Web Services