Oracle

Some words about SOUG Day in Lausanne

Today I participate to SOUG Day which takes place in Lausanne at the "Centre Pluriculturel et social d’Ouchy".

odacli create-database error DCS-10802: Insufficient disk space on file system: database

Introduction I was reimaging an X6-2M ODA after various patching troubles, and everything was fine. After several databases created, the next ones could no more be created. DCS-10802: Insufficient disk space on file system: database. Expected free space (MB): {1},(…)

Adding a dbvisit standby database on the ODA in a non-OMF environment

I have recently been working on a customer project where I had been challenged adding a dbvisit standby database on an ODA X7-2M, named ODA03. The existing customer environment was composed of Oracle Standard 12.2 version database. The primary database,(…)

Having multiple standby databases and cascading with dbvisit

Dbvisit standy is a disaster recovery solution that you will be able to use with Oracle standard edition. I have been working on a customer project where I had to setup a system having one primary and two standby databases.

Connecting to ODA derby database

ODA light (ODA X7-2S, X7-2M, X8-2S, X8-2M) come with an internal derby database to manage ODA metadata. From time to time, there is a need to check or update some information within it, as for example when facing database deletion(…)

Creating archived redolog-files in group dba instead of oinstall

Since Oracle 11g files created by the database belong by default to the Linux group oinstall. Changing the default group after creating the central inventory is difficult. In this Blog I want to show how locally created archived redo can(…)

Oracle 19c

Oracle 19c has been released quite a while ago already and some customers already run it in Production. However, as it is the long term supported release, I thought I blog about some interesting information and features around 19c to(…)

Migrating Oracle database from windows to ODA

Nowadays I have been working on an interesting customer project where I had to migrate windows oracle standard databases to ODA. The ODAs are X7-2M Models, running version 18.5. This version is coming with Red Hat Enterprise Linx 6.10 (Santiago).

Oracle 19c : Point-In-Time Recovery in a PDB

By Mouhamadou Diaw Point-In-Time Recovery is also possible in a multitenant environment. As in Non-CDB, a recovery catalog can be used or not. In this blog we will see how to recover a dropped tablespace in a PDB. We will(…)

ODA X8-2: the new generation

Introduction ODA X7-2 marked the maturity of the Oracle Database Appliance evolution, with 3 models suitable for nearly all customers using Oracle databases. The X7-2M was my favorite, with a lots of cores available (and restrainable), enough memory for dozens(…)