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Oracle Database 12c features with some enhancements for LOB objects and particularly for the SecureFiles. This is not a revolution, but we can see that the range of possibilities with LOB objects increases with the different releases of Oracle… SecureFiles is the default for LOB storage With Oracle 11g, when creating a table containing LOB data, LOB are stored as…
On 16 July, Microsoft published the fifth Cumulative Update (CU5) for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Service Pack One. As usual, if this Cumulative Update solves an issue you are facing, install it quickly – otherwise, do not install it. Which issues are covered by this CU5? This Cumulative Update contains 29 Hotfixes: 20 for the Engine 5 for SSRS 2 for…
Starting with Oracle Database 12C Release 1 a set of new administrative privileges that are more task oriented are available.
Before Oracle 12c it was needed to have the SYSDBA privilege to make a backup, to monitor the Data Guard status or to administrate some features of Oracle Transparent Data Encryption. Starting with this new Oracle release it is not
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Oracle Database 12c offers several enhancements for partitioning. This blog posting will present some enhancements in relation to reference partitioning. The differences between the Oracle 11g R2 and Oracle 12c releases will be shown using practical examples. TRUNCATE and EXCHANGE with the CASCADE option With Oracle 12c, it is now possible to use the CASCADE option to cascade operations to…
Letztes Jahr hat Oracle CEO Larry Ellison während der Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco ein neues Datenbank Release angekündigt, das nun endlich zur Verfügung steht. In diesem Blogbeitrag möchte ich einige der wichtigsten Data Pump-Neuigkeiten vorstellen. Eine komplette Übersicht der Features finden Sie in Oracles Dokument „Oracle Database Utilities“. Fangen wir an mit dem riesen Hype von Oracle 12c! Oracle…
More and more resources are used in companies to manage data. Most companies buy more and more storage systems because of poor resource utilization. Starting with Oracle 11g, Oracle has introduced Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) which can use different kinds of storage with varying performances in order to increase cost savings. In Oracle 12c, ILM now allows the automation of the…
During one of my last consulting missions, I had to install Oracle Database Vault on an existing Oracle environment. It clearly was not a straigthforward process, since I experienced some weird errors such as: ORA-28003: password verification for the specified password failed, ORA-20001: Password length less than 8, and ORA-01917: user or role ‘LBACSYS’ does not exist. After having a…
The aim of this blog is to present you the Oracle 12c Binary Installation with some of the preinstallation tasks.
