Jérôme Dubar

ODA X9-2: it’s finally here!

Updated the 10th of June, 2022: add PMEM option on X9-2L. Introduction It’s been nearly 3 years that Oracle Database Appliance X8-2 reached the market, and in 2022 it’s still a great performer. But now it’s time for a refresh:(…)

Extract all DDL from an Oracle database

Introduction Extracting DDL is sometime useful for creating similar objects in another database without data. Basically everything can be extracted from a running Oracle database. The needs My customer asked me to replicate a database without any data. The goal(…)

Patch 19.14 is out for ODA: new features and how to apply

Introduction Patch 19.14 is now available on Oracle Database Appliance. It’s time to test it. What’s new? This version brings January’s PSU to database and grid homes with their bug fixes, as usual. It also brings latest 21.5 but only(…)

ODA 19.13: odacli update-dbhome raises DCS-10001 and PRGH-1153

Introduction While patching ODAs from 19.10 to 19.13, the update-dbhome could fail if some databases inside this dbhome are stopped or only mounted. Job would then stop with a DCS-10001:Internal error encountered: PRGH-1153 : RHPHelper call to get runing nodes(…)

ODA: Migrating from bare metal to CPU pools

Introduction Oracle Database Appliance now fully supports virtualization with KVM, and this could be interesting for some of us. If you’re using Enterprise Edition, you probably decreased the number of cores to comply with your licenses. Now you can increase(…)

Statspack with Oracle Database 19c and Multitenant

Introduction When it comes to performance analysis on Oracle databases, everybody think about Diagnostic Pack. This is a very complete tool and it brings much more metrics than a DBA can analyze. But there is a big drawback with this(…)

Oracle Database Appliance 19.13: what’s new and how to patch?

Introduction Patch 19.13 is now available on ODA. It’s time to test it. What’s new? This version brings October’s PSU to database and grid homes with their bug fixes, as usual. It also brings 21.4 for DB Systems (21c being(…)

Move a PDB from a server to another one using NFS

Introduction Multitenant brings new possibilities regarding Oracle databases, and one of them is to move a database from a container to another quite easily. When containers are on the same server, it’s very easy, but when the containers are on(…)

ODA 19.12: How can you manage DB Systems with odacli?

Introduction As virtualization is available for all ODAs now, you could ask yourself if it’s a good idea to use this virtualization or not. Databases can be created as bare metal, but also within a DB System for better isolation.

5 things that aren’t true about RMAN

Introduction RMAN backups are not a hot topic today. This is because it didn’t evolve that much in 12c/18c/19c, and most of the databases are now protected by a good backup strategy since years, and no changes are needed. Furthermore,(…)