I do have to start that if you came to this post in particular looking for something Oracle related, you won't find it this time, I do urge you to come back later as I need to pick up my speed here as well, not...
It is not uncommon for Oracle to have something undocumented , and this is just another case of this ailment.We have a database in which we have two copies of the same backup, one we keep in the FRA, the other one in an external...
One of the main reasons I have been a little inactive has been that in the last month and a half I have switched jobs, switched countries and had a conference to give at Collaborate in Denver , so I just wanted to share this...
One thing that has always amazed me is the way that all of our decisions, big or small, have an impact in our life. Sometimes you can’t notice the fork in the roads that those decisions have caused, but sometimes they are as clear as...
Recovery Manager or better known as RMAN, is an Oracle client utility that is installed with the Enterprise or Standard edition, you can also find it with the Admin option when installing the Oracle Client.In it's most basic form, the RMAN client connects, an it...
First I want to start disclosing that I have an idea on how this happened, but haven't been able to recreate this issue, also that I was lucky enough that the tablespace that had the issue was a DUMMY tablespace so it didn't cause an...
So the other day I was doing an install of the 11.2.0.3 Clusterware binaries and came around that with the cluvfy tool in 11.2.0.3 comes now with a health check option for the Database. For this option to work you have to install or setup...
For whoever that has worked with the 11gR2 version of RAC , has ran into the startup sequence diagram, this diagram is just disturbing to see, I don't know about you, but for me is just unhelpful and not KISS.Then there is the second diagram...
Due to several dinners and a few concerts, I didn't post on day three , but here is more data regarding the new version of Oracle's Database 12c .Regarding backup and recovery in this new version, you will see a great new feature in which you...
So the second day of Oracle Open World has come and gone, and the news about the 12c Version of Oracle's signature Database keep coming in, in a General session in which Oracle Tech Guru Tom Kyte did a 15 minute feature presentation, a few...