Oracle

ODA and Dbvisit : Create a SNAPSHOT database?

As you might know, Oracle doesn't offer any disaster recovery solution for their Oracle Standard Edition databases. Oracle Data Guard ensures high availability, data protection and disaster recovery for Oracle Enterprise Edition database only. Dbvisit is a great disaster recovery(…)

The Option -applyRU of runInstaller

By Mouhamadou Diaw RU, MRP should be applied to database home as soon as possible. Usually we often nstall the base version and after install the RU on top on the base version For example we want to have(…)

Oracle 21c Gradual Password Rollover : Tracking old password usage

By Mouhamadou Diaw In a previous blog, I talked about the new feature in Oracle 21c, which allows an old and new password to be valid during a period of time. This feature, Gradual Database(…)

Can we benefit from Oracle SEHA relocate and failover with dbvisit StandbyMP switchover?

I recently wrote an article about how to combine Oracle SEHA database running on ODA 2-HA and dbvisit StandbyMP solution. See my article here : https://www.dbi-services.com/blog/combine-oracle-seha-on-oda-with-dbvisit-standbymp/. But are really all those high availability and disaster recovering(…)

Migrating Non-CDB to Multitenant

By Mouhamadou Diaw Dealing these last days to database migration with a customer, I write this blog to describe the main tasks The context is to migrate databases to a new infrastructure. Below the configuration Source : Linux Suse(…)

Migration with Data Guard: Oracle on Windows AWS to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

Oracle offers a number of methods to migrate Oracle databases to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). From Data Pump through RMAN, Data Guard and even Golden Gate there should be a solution for just about everyone. However, most of these(…)

Combine Oracle SEHA on ODA with Dbvisit StandbyMP?

I recently blog on Oracle SEHA on ODA, see my article https://www.dbi-services.com/blog/seha-on-oda/. Oracle SEHA is used for High Availability for Standard Edition. Dbvisit Standby is a Disaster Recovery well known application designed for Oracle Standard Edition.

Migration with Multitenant: how easy it is!

Introduction On Oracle Database, Multitenant feature will be turning 9 in July, but it’s not yet widely deployed as most of the databases are still running on non-CDB architecture. With 19c, Multitenant is now mature and free if you stick(…)

A generic jdbc tester (part II)

A generic utility to test JDBC connections to any RDBMS or no SQL data source whose JDBC drivers are provided. Oracle OCI, MariaDB and SQLite.

VirtualBox on Mac Host: High CPU utilization for idle VM

Many people in the IT industry do use VirtualBox as a Type-2 Hypervisor to test software in virtual machines. I’m using it with Vagrant on my Macbook Pro 2019 (Intel with Ventura 13.2. when writing this Blog) to setup testcases(…)