Jérôme Dubar

Is it possible to switch a service between 2 pluggable databases?

Introduction In an Oracle database, services have multiple purposes: identifying group of users prior authenticating them enabling/disabling access to a database for particular groups managing preferred nodes on a RAC configuration redirecting users to the primary after a switchover/failover when(…)

ODA: Move a DB to ASM after migrating from 11g to 19c

Introduction Modern Oracle Database Appliances still support 11gR2, but there are several drawbacks using this old version: if you want/need support for your databases, you should pay for Market Driven Support (11gR2 is even no more under extended support –(…)

Oracle Database Appliance: ODA patch 19.10 is out

Introduction 4 months after the 19.9, here comes the 19.10 version of the Oracle Database Appliance patch. Let’s have a look at what’s new. Will my ODA supports this 19.10 patch? The 19.10 release will be the same for all(…)

How to configure additional listeners on ODA

Introduction Oracle Database Appliance has quite a lot of nice features, but when looking into the documentation, at least one thing is missing. How to configure multiple listeners? Odacli apparently doesn’t know what’s a listener. Let’s find out how to(…)

Oracle Database Appliance: what have you missed since X3/X4/X5?

Introduction ODA started to become popular with X3-2 and X4-2 in 2013/2014. These 2 ODAs were very similar. The X5-2 from 2015 was different with 3.5 inches disks instead of 2.5 inches and additional SSDs for small databases (FLASH diskgroup).

Network configurations on ODA

Network configurations on ODA(…)

How long does it take to redeploy an ODA X8-2M?

Introduction One of the advantage of Oracle Database Appliance is its fast deployment. Most often, the initial setup of a lite ODA (with a reimaging) only takes half a day, from unboxing until a first test database is available. Trust(…)

A typical ODA project (and why I love Oracle Database Appliance)

Introduction You can say everything about Oracle infrastructure possibilities but nothing compares to experience based on the realization of real projects. I did quite a lot of ODA projects during the past years (on other platforms too), and I would(…)

odacli create-database -io doesn’t work for older databases in 19.9

Introduction On ODA, you create your databases with odacli create-database. You can create a complete database, and it takes about 10 minutes, and you can also create an instance-only database. It will simply and quickly create a record in the(…)

Configure Data Guard with odacli on ODA

Introduction I always thought integration of Data Guard was a missing feature on Oracle Database Appliance. For sure, you can configure Data Guard manually as you do on a classic server, but as an appliance, ODA should have proposed an(…)