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Clone Oracle 21c Home

24.01.2022 by Mouhamadou Diaw

When deploying new Oracle Home on the same server or on a new server, you may use the downloaded Oracle binaries and do an install from scratch as usual. You may then apply any patch you have on your actually(…)

Database Administration & Monitoring

ODA KVM Machines : Adding a Network Interface on a Virtual Machine

20.01.2022 by Mouhamadou Diaw

In a previous blog , I was talking about virtual machines on ODA servers. Sometimes it comes that we want to add another network interface for other purpose. In this blog I am describing the(…)

Ansible

Automating Linux patching with Ansible – How to keep all your environments consistent ?

14.01.2022 by Joël Cattin

Your may want to patch your Linux servers on a regular basis (e.g using “yum/dnf update”). As always, it’s obviously recommended to : 1) Patch the TEST systems 2) Check if there is no side effects 3) Wait(…)

Database Administration & Monitoring

Oracle Database Appliance 19.13: what’s new and how to patch?

11.12.2021 by Jérôme Dubar

Introduction Patch 19.13 is now available on ODA. It’s time to test it. What’s new? This version brings October’s PSU to database and grid homes with their bug fixes, as usual. It also brings 21.4 for DB Systems (21c being(…)

Database management

When unreachable NFS share mess up your Dbvisit Standby configuration

09.12.2021 by Joël Cattin

If I had to rank my favorite Oracle-related tools and software, Dbvisit Standby would likely be at the top of the list. You are reading this post, so you probably know that Dbvisit Standby is a(…)

Database Administration & Monitoring

ODA 19.12: How can you manage DB Systems with odacli?

26.11.2021 by Jérôme Dubar

Introduction As virtualization is available for all ODAs now, you could ask yourself if it’s a good idea to use this virtualization or not. Databases can be created as bare metal, but also within a DB System for better isolation.

Database Administration & Monitoring

Dbvisit 10 on Oracle Database Appliance

22.11.2021 by Mouhamadou Diaw

Dbvisit Standby can also be installed on Oracle Database Appliance (ODA). The installation is the same that on any other Linux box. I did an install of Dbvist 10 on an ODA 19.12 for a customer and in this blog(…)

Database Administration & Monitoring

Install Enterprise Manager 13c R5: Check the db edition Failed

17.11.2021 by Mouhamadou Diaw

A few days ago, I was setting an Enterprise Manager 13c R5 for a client. The configuration used is the following -The EM binaries are installed in a separate server than the database -The database of the repository(…)

Database Administration & Monitoring

ODA update-server to 19.12 fails on Patch GI with RHP

04.11.2021 by David Hueber

Sometimes giving a workshop is a good opportunities to test new things...this what happened to me today... :-) While giving an ODA workshop, I thought it was a good opportunity to test patching to the new 19.12 release. However during(…)

Database Administration & Monitoring

Configuring ODBC : SQLServer Access From Oracle

02.11.2021 by Mouhamadou Diaw

Sometimes you need to access to your SQLServer from your Oracle database. There is many ways and tools to do this. In this blog I am describing how to perform this task using ODBC. The configuration is below(…)