Oracle

Patch 19.14 is out for ODA: new features and how to apply

Introduction Patch 19.14 is now available on Oracle Database Appliance. It’s time to test it. What’s new? This version brings January’s PSU to database and grid homes with their bug fixes, as usual. It also brings latest 21.5 but only(…)

ODA 19.13: odacli update-dbhome raises DCS-10001 and PRGH-1153

Introduction While patching ODAs from 19.10 to 19.13, the update-dbhome could fail if some databases inside this dbhome are stopped or only mounted. Job would then stop with a DCS-10001:Internal error encountered: PRGH-1153 : RHPHelper call to get runing nodes(…)

PDB Snapshot Carousel with Oracle 21c

By Mouhamadou Diaw In a previous blog , I talked about refreshable PDB technology which can be used to refresh a target PDB. We have seen here how the target refreshable PDB(…)

ODA: Migrating from bare metal to CPU pools

Introduction Oracle Database Appliance now fully supports virtualization with KVM, and this could be interesting for some of us. If you’re using Enterprise Edition, you probably decreased the number of cores to comply with your licenses. Now you can increase(…)

Pluggable Database Snapshots with Oracle 21c

By Mouhamadou Diaw In a previous blog , I talked about refreshable PDB technology which can be used to refresh a target PDB. The target PDB can be in mounted state (mandatory to be refreshed) or(…)

Snapshot solutions with Oracle Standard Edition SE2

Would you like to quickly provide your engineering team with a real production environment database with updated data to develop new features? Does your operational team need a copy of the production database to test a new release or a(…)

Separating database traffic on an ODA

I recently wrote a blog on how to separate database traffic on an ODA using KVM Database Systems on different VLAN : Creating KVM Database System on separate VLAN network on ODA As we could see there is pros(…)

Oracle Database Appliance: Install a DB Release Update manually

By Clemens Bleile Recently I upgraded an ODA X7-M from 19.12. to 19.13. After the dcs-, server- and storage-upgrade several databases on the machine had to be patched from 19.9. to 19.13. The [root@<node> ~]# odacli create-prepatchreport --dbhome --dbhomeid(…)

Managing Refreshable Clone Pluggable Databases with Oracle 21c

By Mouhamadou Diaw A refreshable clone PDB is a way to refresh a single PDB instead of refreshing all PDBs in a container as in a Data Guard environment. It consists to make a clone of a source PDB and(…)

Character Sets and Oracle 21c PDBs : How It Works

By Mouhamadou Diaw When creating a database in a multitenant environment we must understand how character set works for CDB and PDBS. In Oracle documentation we can find following lines -When the character set of(…)