Oracle

Larry Ellison – Oracle’s Vision for the future

Generative AI changes everything Larry Ellison kicked off his keynote by delving into Artificial Intelligence, particularly focusing on ChatGPT. The phrase is sure to become famous “About a year ago OpenAI demonstrated ChatGPT 3.5 and much to the shock of(…)

Oracle to the rescue of MGM with SQL Firewall?

Introduction It is true that it’s a somewhat daring title, and it’s unlikely that SQL firewall has changed anything about the attack that several casinos in Las Vegas suffered last week. However, the opportunity was too good to pass(…)

Las Vegas, from sin city to green city?

Introduction Oracle CloudWorld 2023 will start next week in Las Vegas, and I’m happy to participate in this worldwide event. As a Swiss citizen, when I think of Las Vegas, the first image that comes to my mind is that(…)

Running an Oracle Database 19c on Apple Silicon (Apple Macbook Air M1)

By end of June 2023 Oracle announced the availability of Oracle 19c for the Arm-architecture (aarch64). Consultants and DBAs, who do use a Mac Laptop with Apple Silicon (M1 or M2), have waited quite a long time to(…)

How to apply patch 19.19 on your ODA?

Introduction It’s been several weeks that patch 19.19 is available on ODA. And I finally had the possibility to test it. What’s new? This version brings latest PSUs to database and grid homes, with their bug fixes as usual. It(…)

OCI: Automate your Oracle Cloud Database software releases deployment (db-home)

As part of a very exciting project around Oracle Exadata Cloud @ Customer (aka. ExaCC) technology, we wanted to rollout in an automated manner the database software aka. ORACLE_HOME on ExaCC database clusters (aka. VM cluster). However, we rapidly identified(…)

Database Check for a one-to-one Migration with OMrun

Procedure to check a one-to-one migration between different database types autogenerated and generically with OMrun.

Building a transportable Oracle Sandbox environment for an Apple Silicon Laptop (MacBook with M1- or M2-processor)

Since Apple released their Apple Silicon Laptops based on the ARM processor architecture, it became difficult for Consultants with such a device to run their Oracle Sandbox environment, because the main Oracle products are running on the Intel architecture. Hence(…)

ODA: Check your DB homes before applying server patch

Introduction Patching an Oracle Database Appliance is divided in 4 main steps with 4 odacli commands in this order: odacli update-dcs[admin|components|agent]: the easiest part dedicated to update the ODA tooling, including odacli itself odacli update-server: the most complex part. It(…)

Installing Oracle 23c Free developer release on Proxmox

Oracle provides an OVA (Open Virtual Appliance) file to install the 23c Free Developer Release on Virtualbox. An OVA file contains metadata and file elements in the Open Virtual Format (OVF) to package and distribute one or more virtual machines.