Oracle

Oracle Database Appliance: what have you missed since X3/X4/X5?

Introduction ODA started to become popular with X3-2 and X4-2 in 2013/2014. These 2 ODAs were very similar. The X5-2 from 2015 was different with 3.5 inches disks instead of 2.5 inches and additional SSDs for small databases (FLASH diskgroup).

Oracle Rolling Invalidate Window Exceeded(3)

By Franck Pachot . This extends a previous post (Rolling Invalidate Window Exceeded) where, in summary, the ideas were: When you gather statistics, you want the new executions to take into account the new statistics, which(…)

Network configurations on ODA

Network configurations on ODA(…)

Oracle 21c : Two nodes Grid Infrastructure Installation

By Mouhamadou Diaw Oracle 21c is actually released in the cloud, and I did some tests to setup a Grid infrastructure cluster with two nodes. I used following two VM servers to test racp1vm1 racp1vm2 Below(…)

Oracle autoupgrade on Windows and plugin to a Container DB with virtual accounts

In a project I recently had to upgrade an Oracle 12.2.-DB to 19.9. and at the same time migrate from the non-container architecture to the container architecture. The interesting part here is to do this on Windows. Actually both steps(…)

Learn ODA on Oracle Cloud

By Franck Pachot . You want to learn and practice your ODA command line and GUI without having an ODA at home? It should be possible to run the ODA image on VirtualBox but that’s probably a hard work(…)

19c serverless logon trigger

By Franck Pachot . I thought I already blogged about this but can’t find it. So here it is, with a funny title. I like to rename oracle features by their user point of view (they are usually named(…)

How long does it take to redeploy an ODA X8-2M?

Introduction One of the advantage of Oracle Database Appliance is its fast deployment. Most often, the initial setup of a lite ODA (with a reimaging) only takes half a day, from unboxing until a first test database is available. Trust(…)

Oracle 21c: Blockchain Tables

Oracle Blockchain Tables With Oracle Database 20c/21c the new feature Oracle Blockchain Tables has been introduced. Blockchain Tables enable Oracle Database users to create tamper-resistant data management without distributing a ledger across multiple parties. Database security can be improved by(…)

Handling unified auditing spillover files on the standby-site

Switching to Oracle Unified Auditing may produce lots of data when e.g. auditing activities of the SYS-user. I.e. according the documentation you can do the following to audit similarly as in traditional auditing with audit_sys_operations=TRUE: SQL> CREATE AUDIT POLICY TOPLEVEL_ACTIONS(…)