Alain Klein brings more than 25 years of experience in Information Technology, including Oracle DBA roles on the 9i, 10g, and 11g versions. Today he works with current Oracle Database releases across database architecture, migration and upgrade projects on-premises, disaster recovery (Data Guard), and backup and recoverability (RMAN, Flashback). Prior to dbi services, he worked for 21 years at DIGORA, a French IT services provider, and more than two years at A2i Proxim as Support Operator for the Adonix V3/X3 (now Sage X3) ERP software. Alain holds a Diplôme d'Études Supérieures Spécialisées (DESS) in Industrial Management and Innovation from the University of Strasbourg.
One of our customers needed to archive a 4T Oracle database. Several options have been chosen, one of them being archiving the data to SIARD format using SIARD Suite from Swiss Federal Archives. This blog posts explains the basics: what SIARD Suite is, how it works, and examples in command line mode. Meeting SIARD Suite SIARD Suite is software developed…
With latest versions of AutoUpgrade, downloading and installing Oracle AI Database 26ai on Linux x86 on-premise has become a very simple process. If you want to give a try to Oracle Database 26ai, building a test environment requires minimal effort as you will see in this short post. What we need: Steps to proceed: 1) Update the system 2) Install…
One of the most game changing capabilities of Exascale are the new clone and snapshot features compared to previous options available with ASM / ACFS. And since the business requirements for clones or snapshots to be made available rapidly and conveniently are rising, Exascale comes in rescue for IT operations to quickly provide storage efficient copies of production databases, even…
In the first article, we discovered Exascale from a high level overview with a focus on Exascale Infrastructure. In this new article, we will dive into the Exascale storage architecture, with details about the physical components as well as the services and processes managing this new storage management approach for Exadata. In this blog post, we will explore the Exascale…
Oracle unveiled Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure in summer 2024. In this blog post, the first of a series dedicated to Exascale, we will dive into its architecture after a brief presentation of what Exascale is. Introduction Exadata on Exascale Infrastructure is a new deployment option for Exadata Database Service. It comes in addition to the well known Exadata…
