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Recovering from failed patch on virtualized ODA

When a patch fails on a virtualized Oracle Database Appliance (ODA), this ODA is often unusuable because Linux and OAKD are patched to new release but Grid Infrastructure is still on old version. OAKD cannot be restarted in default mode(…)

Foglight: Monitoring solution for databases [Part 02]

Foglight is a powerful and all in one monitoring solution to monitor various IT infrastructure assets like databases, servers, applications and so on. Whenever you need to monitor a special assets like an Oracle database, a Windows server, a Tomcat(…)

How to fix OUI-10022 error on an ODA

When manually upgrading Grid Infrastructure on an ODA according to MOS note 2379389.1 it has to be done as grid user. This can fail with OUI-10022 error which indicates that Oracle inventory is corrupt. But when trying an “opatch(…)

Getting in touch with shareplex

Tuesday this week I had the opportunity to get in touch with shareplex, Quest’s replication solution. This product does not rely on Oracle licenses, so can also be used with Standard Edition. It is competitor of Oracle’s GoldenGate an used(…)

Oracle OpenWorld 2018: Day 3

By Mouhamadou Diaw Today my first session was about GDPR Data Security in the GDPR Era. It was presented by Joao Nunes, IT Senior Manager, NOS Tiago Rocha, Database Administrator, “Nos Comunicaões, Sa.” Eric Lybeck, Director, PwC(…)

Oracle OpenWorld 2018: Day 2

By Mouhamadou Diaw Today is my second day of Oracle OpenWorld 2018. I can now go to the Moscone Center without GPS (cool) and then I decided to follow a MySQL session (my boss will be happy). Yes my first(…)

Oracle OpenWorld 2018: Day 1

By Mouhamadou Diaw The first session I assisted today was Oracle Active Data Guard: Best Practices and New Features Deep Dive. This session was done by Nitin Karkhanis Director of Software Development managing the Data Guard Broker development team(…)

Oracle OpenWorld 2018: Day 0

By Mouhamadou Diaw Today was the day 0 for the oracle Openworld 2018. The event is officially not started but there were many nice entertainments to discover and enjoy San Francisco. The one Gregory Steulet (CFO of dbi services)(…)

Schema only account with Oracle 18.3

With Oracle 18.3, we have the possibility to create schemas without a password. Effectively in a perfect world, we should not be able to connect to application schemas. For security reasons it is a good thing that nobody can connect(…)

Monitoring Linux With Nmon

By Mouhamadou Diaw I was looking for tools to monitor linux servers and I found an interesting one nmon ( short for Nigel’s Monitor). I did some tests. In this blog I am describing how(…)