This is something that you might have already known, but it's a cool thing when using RMAN that I want to show you. As you may know Oracle Database has a feature called archived redo log failover, this feature allows RMAN to backup successfully the archived redo logs...
The other day I was running an upgrade for a client that is using ACLs ( Access Control Lists) from 11.2.0.3 to 12.1.0.2, and if you have been doing upgrades to 12c, you know that when running the catctl.pl -n 4 catupgrd.sql it entails 73 steps. So...
As some of you may know , one of my very first errors back when I was using Oracle RDBMS 9.2 was to drop a table from production instead of development just for not following FIT-ACER , but back then recovering a table was not as...
These past few years have been such a rollercoaster of emotions , of good and not so good things, but they have also been years of hard core learning experiences and I won't go here about them, as some of you already know about them...
This year it was delayed by 1 month and it is going to be a cold time in San Francisco, but that doesn't mean it's not going to be a fun time. To those who will be their first time attending , it can be a...
This will be a small post regarding creating an error I had today regarding Schema as a Service template with EM12c emcli . While creating today a service template , I had an error that showed me nothing more or where I could look for...
When defining what is a cloud service, we need to know that it is not a technology per se, but its an architectural and operational paradigm. It is a self-service computing environment offering the ability to create, consume and pay for services. In this architecture, computing resources...
Today is just a short post , as today an article done on me was published in the UK for UKOUG Oracle Scene on how I became an oracle ACE UKOUG Oracle Scene...
So the other day I was trying to login to my EM12c R4 environment with the SSA_ADMINISTRATOR user, and I got the error : Authentication failed. If problem persists, contact your system administrator. I was quite sure that the password that I had was correct, so I...
So the other day I was trying to do a fresh installation of a new Oracle EM12cR4 in a local VM, and as I was doing it with the DB 12c, I decided to use the Oracle preinstall RPM to ease my installation of the...