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Automated database context complements semantic modeling

pauls@windocks.com (Paul Stanton) — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 23:06:31 GMT

A new identity and expanded purpose

pauls@windocks.com (Paul Stanton) — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 20:46:16 GMT

Windocks is known by our customers for innovation and responsive support. Over the years we’ve established our business with market leading support for Windows SQL Server environments, as the only firm with writable Windows SQL Server snapshots, and for unique Docker Windows SQL Server containers. We were also the first to support Oracle database virtualization on industry standard Linux. These capabilities our supported customers will continue. We’re count ourselves fortunate to support forward looking enterprises around the world.

Oracle EBS Database Cloning for Reporting and Analytics

pauls@windocks.com (Paul Stanton) — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 20:26:49 GMT

For the past ten years Windocks has served enterprises around the globe with on demand cloned database environments (also known as database virtualization). While the majority of cloned database environments are used in development and test, a growing number are relied on for production reporting and analytics. These reporting databases are large and typically require data masking and other operations, and the delivery process must minimize reporting downtime.

Oracle and Oracle EBS Database Subsetting

pauls@windocks.com (Paul Stanton) — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 20:56:18 GMT

Provisioning multi-terabyte databases has always been challenging, and is the reason behind Windocks database virtualization which provides writable databases in seconds, with 99% storage compression. Now, Windocks is pleased to offer a complimentary solution in database subsetting.

Oracle and Oracle EBS Database Virtualization | Windocks

pauls@windocks.com (Paul Stanton) — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 18:45:12 GMT

Windocks recently released updated Oracle database virtualization and subsetting, including:

Beyond Just Database Provisioning

spao@windocks.com (Steve Pao) — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 17:52:34 GMT

While Windocks implementations are primarily purchased for database administrators to streamline provisioning of dev and test database environments, other IT and data functions also realize advantages of database orchestration in the areas of:

Making the Most of Synthetic Data

spao@windocks.com (Steve Pao) — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 23:07:00 GMT

Project managers, data scientists, data engineers, developers, and testers can all attest to the importance of data in the AI/ML modeling and software development life cycle. At each stage of development, data helps to ensure that the models and software are functioning as expected and meet the needs of the business. However, for a variety of reasons, most notably privacy protection, it is often necessary to generate synthetic data that mimics production data. This blog discusses some of the ways in which synthetic data can be generated and used in conjunction with production SQL data.

Writable SQL Server snapshots, production database timelines, and more

pauls@windocks.com (Paul Stanton) — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 22:34:00 GMT

2022 continues as it began with more new customers than ever, and always expanding product capabilities. This article summarizes what’s new in 2022.

Manage data, not infrastructure

pauls@windocks.com (Paul Stanton) — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 23:05:00 GMT

Data management is a growing challenge with expanding volumes of data, on increasingly diverse data platforms, often divided between enterprise and cloud storage. Automating infrastructure via Infrastructure-as-code is failing to keep pace for many organizations, and smart enterprises seek a higher-level of abstraction or database control plane. Windocks database orchestration addresses these challenges with code-free, user-specified database environments that abstract infrastructure.

Introducing Windocks Complete Data Masking

pauls@windocks.com (Paul Stanton) — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 00:08:00 GMT

Windocks is pleased to respond to requests for a bundle that combines database cloning with static SQL Server masking. A complete database masking and automation solution, Windocks automates data discovery and mask generation, and implementation into a secure database image. Images deliver cloned masked database environments in seconds, for SQL Server containers and conventional instances.

Postgres and MySQL containers and database cloning

pauls@windocks.com (Paul Stanton) — Fri, 21 Aug 2020 00:20:00 GMT

2020 will be remembered for the Covid-19 pandemic, and among technology circles as a time for accelerated investments in DevOps processes, and #WFH support for remote teams. Windocks growth has accelerated in 2020, and we’re pleased to announce the first commercially supported Windows and MySQL containers, with database cloning.

Live Secondary databases and new use-cases

pauls@windocks.com (Paul Stanton) — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 01:35:00 GMT

We’ve expanded our blog publishing on linkedin in recent months, and have covered a variety of topics related to Live Secondaries. Read more here.