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Oracle SPD status on two learning paths

By Franck Pachot . I have written a lot about SQL Plan Directives that appeared in 12c. They were used by default and, because of some side effects at the time of 12cR1 with legacy(…)

Efficiently query DBA_EXTENTS for FILE_ID / BLOCK_ID

By Franck Pachot . This was initially posted to CERN Database blog on Thursday, 27 September 2018 where it seems to be lost. Here is a copy thanks to web.archive.org Did you ever try to(…)

Oracle write consistency bug and multi-thread de-queuing

By Franck Pachot . This was initially posted on CERN Database blog where it seems to be lost. Here is a copy thanks to web.archive.org Additional notes: – I’ve tested and got the(…)

Oracle 21c Security : Mandatory Profile

By Mouhamadou Diaw With Oracle 21c, it is now possible to enforce a password policy (length, number of digits…) for all pluggable databases or for specific pluggable databases via profiles. This is done by creating a mandatory profile in the(…)

Oracle 21c Security : Gradual Database Password Rollover

By Mouhamadou Diaw Starting with Oracle 21c, a password of an application can be changed without having to schedule a downtime. This can be done by using the new profile parameter PASSWORD_ROLLOVER_TIME This will set a rollover period of(…)

Oracle 21c Security : ORA_STIG_PROFILE and ORA_CIS_PROFILE

By Mouhamadou Diaw In my previous blog I was testing the creation of a new Oracle 21c database. In this blog I am talking about two changes about the security. In each new(…)

Oracle 21c : Create a New Database

By Mouhamadou Diaw Oracle 21c is now released on the cloud. And in this blog I am just testing my first database creation . As earlier release dbca is still present. Just launch it 1 [oracle@oraadserver admin]$ dbca(…)

Ansible Custom Interactive Dynamic Inventory

When working with an Ansible dynamic inventory, you may want to update it from your playbook on the fly. For instance, you may want to create a server and then install an application on it without calling a second playbook(…)

Recovery in the ☁ with Oracle Autonomous Database

By Franck Pachot . I’ll start this series with the Oracle Autonomous database but my goal is to cover the Point In Time recovery for many managed databases in the major cloud providers. Because I’ve seen lot of confusion(…)

AWS DynamoDB -> S3 -> OCI Autonomous Database

By Franck Pachot . I contribute to multiple technologies communities. I’m an Oracle ACE Director for many years, and I also became an AWS Data Hero recently 🎉. I got asked(…)