René Antúnez

Oracle 23ai DB Creation in an ExaCC Fails with DBAAS-60022

Ran into a DB creation failure (DBAAS-60022) while provisioning an Oracle 23ai DB on ExaCC (Image 25.1.3). After digging through logs and a bit of head-scratching, the root cause turned out to be a Java version mismatch — DBCA was compiled with Java 11, but the system defaulted to Java 8. If you’re hitting the same issue, I wrote up the root cause, the Oracle bug reference, and a quick workaround that worked for me.

April 10, 2025 No Comments

Cassandra 101 : Understanding what is Cassandra

As some of you may know, in my current role at Pythian, I am tackling OSDB and currently Cassandra is in my radar. So one of the things I have been trying to do is learn what Cassandra is, so I’m going to share a

March 12, 2015 No Comments

Oracle SQLcl , The Future of SQL*Plus !

In December of 2014 the team of Oracle SQLDeveloper released a beta version of an Oracle tool called SQLcl, which in a nutshell, is the engine of SQL * Plus that belongs to SQLDeveloper, and the truth since I saw it, I fell in love with

March 6, 2015 No Comments

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My Road on Becoming an Oracle ACE

If you have been following or reading my blog, I wrote back in May the first part of this road, and thankfully we are now in the second part of this three part road. In early February I received the news that my Oracle community

February 23, 2015 No Comments

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Why is RMOUG and presenting in Denver is so important to me

As some of you heard yesterday in my first RMOUG presentation, being in Denver, at Colorado Convention Center and presenting at RMOUG is very personal and emotional moment for me. For those of you who were not present , the reason is that when I

February 19, 2015 No Comments

My First IOUG #PlugInToVegas for Collaborate 2015

So today I received an email from @IOUG that my session in this year’s Collaborate ( 556: Architecting your own DBaaS in a Private Cloud with EM12c ) was going to be part of the virtual conference , and even though I have presented several times at Collaborate

February 5, 2015 No Comments

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What is photography to me?

Today a good friend tagged me in a post regarding how she is going to be reaching for new heights in photography, and in a non-related note ; Last night ,for me, was a rough night, but these 2 things got me thinking into 3

January 3, 2015 No Comments

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My First Tattoo : La macchina va dove vanno gli occhi

So this past weekend was a special one, and one of the things that made it special is the fact that I crossed one thing of my “bucket list” and this was my first tattoo. It took me a while to decide first to go

December 1, 2014 1 Comment