Database management

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(…)

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(…)

A typical ODA project (and why I love Oracle Database Appliance)

Introduction You can say everything about Oracle infrastructure possibilities but nothing compares to experience based on the realization of real projects. I did quite a lot of ODA projects during the past years (on other platforms too), and I would(…)

Getting started with Exasol – Distribution keys

After the previous posts about Exasol, which have been more around installation, administration, backup & restore, loading data and general notes around transactions and sessions we'll now go into more details how Exasol manages data. Here is the list of(…)

Oracle 19c Grid Infrastructure for a cluster

By Mouhamadou Diaw In this previous blog , we deal with Oracle Restart and ACFS. We saw that using ACFS with Oracle Restart will require some manual tasks. The solution is to install a Grid Infrastructure(…)

ODA 19.9 software release is out

Introduction 6 months after the 19.6, the first 19c production release, here comes the 19.9 Oracle Database Appliance patch with major improvements. Will my ODA supports this 19.9 patch? First, the 19.9 release will be the same for all ODAs,(…)

Oracle Restart 19c and ACFS

By Mouhamadou Diaw In this blog we are going to install an Oracle Restart 19c with ASM Filter Driver (AFD). I am using following configuration -Oracle 19c -Oracle Linux Server 7.6 -Kernel 4.14.35-1902.2.0.el7uek.x86_64 Once the Oracle Restart(…)