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Oracle DB on Azure with Multitenant Option

By Franck Pachot . If you want to run an Oracle Database in the Microsoft Azure cloud, you will install it yourself on a VM. And then, you can expect the same as when you install it in your(…)

Oracle 21c : Two nodes Grid Infrastructure Installation

By Mouhamadou Diaw Oracle 21c is actually released in the cloud, and I did some tests to setup a Grid infrastructure cluster with two nodes. I used following two VM servers to test racp1vm1 racp1vm2 Below(…)

Learn ODA on Oracle Cloud

By Franck Pachot . You want to learn and practice your ODA command line and GUI without having an ODA at home? It should be possible to run the ODA image on VirtualBox but that’s probably a hard work(…)

19c serverless logon trigger

By Franck Pachot . I thought I already blogged about this but can’t find it. So here it is, with a funny title. I like to rename oracle features by their user point of view (they are usually named(…)

Oracle 21c: Blockchain Tables

Oracle Blockchain Tables With Oracle Database 20c/21c the new feature Oracle Blockchain Tables has been introduced. Blockchain Tables enable Oracle Database users to create tamper-resistant data management without distributing a ledger across multiple parties. Database security can be improved by(…)

Pressure Stall Information on Autonomous Linux

By Franck Pachot . The Linux metrics that are usually considered for performance monitoring and troubleshooting have many drawbacks and frequent misinterpretations. The recent kernels provide PSI (Pressure Stall Information) which is not enabled by default in Oracle Linux(…)

How to quickly download the new bunch of 21c Oracle Database documentation?

Last month, Oracle released its new 21c version of the database documentation. At that time, I was looking for a quick mean to get all the books of this so-called 21c Innovation Release. I could remember I used a(…)

Migrate Oracle Database 9.2.0.6 to Oracle 19c using GoldenGate

When a customer wanted to take the challenge to migrate an oracle database 9.2.0.6 (the prehistory in the Oracle world) to Oracle 19c using Oracle GodenGate, I saw more problems than add value for different reasons:  Oracle 9.2.0.6 database is(…)

Optimizer Statistics Gathering – pending and history

By Franck Pachot . This was initially posted to CERN Database blog on Wednesday, 12 September 2018 where it seems to be lost. Here is a copy thanks to web.archive.org Demo table I create a(…)

Password rolling change before Oracle 21c

By Franck Pachot . You may have read about Gradual Password Rollover usage from Mouhamadou Diaw and about some internals from Rodrigo Jorge. But it works only on 21c which is(…)