Database Administration & Monitoring, Hardware & Storage, Operating systems, Oracle Patching or reimaging your ODA? 12.08.2019 by Jérôme Dubar Introduction One of the key features of the ODA (Oracle Database Appliance) is the ability to patch the entire stack every three months, the goal being to keep all the components up-to-date. Most of the customers won’t patch so often,(…)
Database Administration & Monitoring, Database management, Oracle Why ODA reimaging doesn’t work on the first try? 07.06.2019 by Jérôme Dubar Introduction Reimaging an ODA is a good practice for a lot of reasons. To make your ODA cleaner if it’s running for many years and if you patch regularly. To simplify patching because if you’re late you could have to(…)
Database Administration & Monitoring, Database management, Hardware & Storage, Oracle How to patch your ODA lite to 18.3.0.0.0 08.03.2019 by Jérôme Dubar Even you don’t need 18c, or you’re not ready for this release, this patch will also update your 11gR2, 12cR1 and 12cR2 databases to the latest PSU available on ODA, it means for example the patchset from last July if(…)
Database Administration & Monitoring OBUG 2019 – First event from Oracle Users Group in Belgium! 09.02.2019 by Jérôme Dubar Introduction It’s the first edition of the Techdays, the Oracle community event in Belgium. This event happened in Antwerp these past 2 days, and a lot of speakers came from around the world to talk about their experience on focused(…)
Database Administration & Monitoring, Oracle ODA : Free up space on local filesystems 21.12.2018 by Jérôme Dubar Introduction When you work on ODA you sometimes get struggled with local filesystem free space. ODA has terabytes of space on data disks, but local disks are still limited to a raid-1 array of 2x 480GB disks. And only few(…)
Database Administration & Monitoring 5 mistakes you should avoid with Oracle Database Appliance 02.11.2018 by Jérôme Dubar Introduction It has been 5 years I’m working on ODA and I now have a quite good overview of the pros and the cons of such a solution. On one hand, ODA can greatly streamline your Oracle Database environment if(…)
Database Administration & Monitoring, Oracle Reimaging an old X3-2/X4-2 ODA 26.10.2018 by Jérôme Dubar Introduction X3-2 and X4-2 ODAs are still very capable pieces of hardware in 2018. With 256GB of RAM and at least 16 cores per node, and with 18TB RAW disk capacity as a standard these appliances are far from obsolete(…)
Database Administration & Monitoring, Database management, Oracle Restoring a database without having any controlfile backup 21.08.2018 by Jérôme Dubar It should never happen but sometimes it happens. You just lost your datafiles as well as your fast recovery area (probably because most of the time these areas are on the same disks despite the recommendations). Normal restore operations with(…)
Database Administration & Monitoring, Database management, Oracle Easily manage dual backup destination with RMAN 15.08.2018 by Jérôme Dubar Backup on disk with RMAN is great. It’s fast, you can set as many channels as your platform can handle for faster backups. And you can restore as fast as you can read and write files on disk with these(…)
Database Administration & Monitoring, Database management, Oracle Patching ODA lite to 12.2.1.4.0 30.07.2018 by Jérôme Dubar Here is how to apply the latest patch for your ODA. As usual the Oracle documentation is not 100% accurate. I applied this patch on 2 ODAs X7-2M previously deployed in 12.2.1.2.0, no intermediate patch was needed. 1) Download the(…)