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Tomek Sikorski

Tomek Sikorski, member of the Oracle Team Zurich, has more than 15 years of experience specializing in Oracle Platform solutions on Exadata, ExaCC, ODA, and PCA. His expertise spans full-stack Linux, network, and storage implementations, public and private cloud automation on Oracle OCI and AWS, database upgrades and migration via Oracle ZDM, high-availability Real Application Clusters, ASM storage management, and Data Guard. He also supports virtualization on PCA/OLVM/KVM and works with Ansible, bash, PL/SQL, Git, and CI/CD platforms including Jenkins. Prior to dbi services, he was Technical Architect at Accenture AG, and previously worked at Leonteq AG, UBS, IBM, and Crédit Agricole. His industry experience covers mainly banking and insurance.

6 posts since October 2024

Grid Clusterware 26ai 2 node RAC upgrade from 19c rolling forward

This is third part of 26ai migration blog. We will upgrade here 2 node Clusterware with ASM in 19c. We will use newest 23.26.1 GoldImages from oracle support. This tutorial showing main steps how to perform upgrade, its not procedure to upgrade your production environment, please checkout official documentation from oracle and do proper planning and prechecks before you do… 

Oracle Grid Infrastructure 26ai/ ASM upgrade from 19c one node.

This is second part of 26ai migration blog. We will upgrade here one node Clusterware with ASM in 19c. We will use newest 23.26.1 GoldImages from oracle support. This tutorial showing main steps how to perform upgrade, its not procedure to upgrade your production environment, please checkout official documentation from oracle do proper planning and prechecks before you do it.… 

Database upgrade to AI Database 26ai (23.26.1) for Linux x86-64 upgrade from 19C in 3 steps using gold images.

This tutorial showing simple database upgrade to 26ai using traditional method and autoupgrade tool, For operational databases please properly test and plan your upgrade. https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/26/fppad/upgrading-oracle-database-software.html This is one from 3 Articles related to 26.1 upgrade: Step 1. Downloading software and preparing Linux Download Base Gold image from Oracle support software from latest Oracle AI Database 26ai (23.26.1) for Linux x86-64… 

Oracle DMK release 2.2.0 new features / Windows support.

DMK is a Database Management Kit that can be used in various database environments. It simplifies command-line tasks for Databases Administrator on Unix and Windows systems. It supports multiple databases including Oracle, MongoDB, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL. It also includes additional modules for automating RMAN backups, database duplication, and database creation.dbi-services recently released version 2.2.0, introducing significant improvements for Oracle databases with RAC/ASM and enhanced support… 

ExaCC OCI integration with OEM 13.5 Cloud Control installed On-premises.

Introduction I wrote this article to show how you can integrate Legacy OEM with your Cloud environment in this case Oracle ExaCC.To have overall view on your Exadata X9M Cloud Infrastructure, statistics related to CPU/Memory/ASM Storage usage. Your on premise monitoring OEM can read data from Oracle cloud using OCI libraries and present them in combination with your standard DB/VMs… 

OEM Cloud Control Release update to 13.5.0.23

Introduction This is upgrade procedure to release update from 07 Aug 2024. 13.5.0.23 Its also one of prerequisites for integrating OEM with OCI Exadata Cloud@Customer solution available on my other post under this link: https://www.dbi-services.com/blog/exacc-oci-integration-with-oem-13-5-cloud-control-installed-on-premises Patching procedure and process is basically regular with usage of standard OMSPatcher. We updating from version 13.5.0.16 to 13.5.0.23 This update release bring some improvements…