Oracle

PRGH-1030 when doing restore-node -g on ODA

Introduction Patching your Oracle Database Appliance from 19.20 or earlier release to 19.21 or newer release implies the use of Data Preserving Reprovisioning (DPR). Most of the time, and with an adequate preparation, the DPR works fine. But if something(…)

Oracle Technology Roundtable for Digital Natives – Let’s have a look at AI, Cloud and HeatWave

Yesterday I participated to the Oracle Technology Roundtable for Digital Natives in Zurich. It was a good opportunity to learn more about AI, Cloud and HeatWave with the focus on very trendy features of this product: generative AI,(…)

Troubleshooting Oracle Data Guard

Troubleshooting Oracle Data Guard when your standby database has errors or is not in sync(…)

Why Data Pump Fails to Import Scheduler-Programs

Here is the How To of scripting them instead Oracle Data Pump can import simple programs without arguments, but it fails when handling Scheduler-Programs that contain arguments. This has been a persistent issue with no official resolution. Since this was(…)

Delphix Data Virtualization and Masking

After successfully completing several customer projects involving Delphix products, Data Virtualization and Data Masking, I decided to set up a complete infrastructure internally to test the combination of both products. Delphix Data Virtualization Creates only a virtual copy of(…)

Cleanup Oracle After Patching

cleanup Oracle-Home(s) after applying the quarterly Release Updates Do you suffer from the fact that release updates take longer each time?Are you afraid that your hard disk will fill up because the Oracle-Home is getting bigger and bigger?Here is the(…)

How to clone remote PDB with dbaascli on ExaCC?

When your DB infrastructure move to ExaCC, it’s a good option to appropriate the tools offer by it to facilitate your life. And for ExaCC, this tool is dbaascli. It manages many aspects of the ExaCC layers. And in this(…)

New Oracle Database Appliance X11 series for 2025

Introduction Oracle Database Appliance X10 is not so old, but X11 is already out, available to order. Let’s find out what’s new for this 2025 series. What is an Oracle Database Appliance? ODA, or Oracle Database Appliance, is an engineered(…)

Oracle Database Replay for a RAC environment

The database Capture/Replay feature of the Real Application Testing (RAT) suite enables you to capture the workload from a production database and replay it on a test or development environment. This allows for realistic testing of database changes, such as(…)

Oracle Database on Apple Silicon with Virtualbox 7.1

I blogged in the past about running an Oracle database for testing purposes on Apple Silicon. Initially with emulated Intel code here and then (when Oracle released its 19c database software for ARM) with UTM as a wrapper for(…)