Database Administration & Monitoring, Database management, Oracle Cleanup Audit Trail – the Full Picture 02.07.2024 by Oracle Team Oracle Database 23ai introduces several enhancements to unified auditing, focused on flexibility, and effectiveness. Some of the new key features are: Desupport of Traditional Auditing: Traditional auditing is desupported in Oracle 23ai, which means all auditing must now be done(…)
Database Administration & Monitoring, Database management, Oracle Oracle 23ai New Backup & Recovery Features 01.07.2024 by Oracle Team In this article I will give a short overview of some Backup & Recovery features in the new Oracle 23ai database. Meanwhile there are more than 300 new features in Oracle 23ai most of them reflecting artificial intelligence. I will(…)
Oracle Is DPR compatible with 12.1 databases running on your ODA? 12.06.2024 by Jérôme Dubar Introduction Since patch version 19.21 (current one is 19.23), ODA (Oracle Database Appliance) X7, X8 and X9 will require the use of Data Preserving Reprovisioning (DPR) to get the patch. Unlike traditional patching, DPR erases the system disks but keeps(…)
Database Administration & Monitoring, Database management, Oracle, Security Simulate (Transparent Tablespace Encryption) TDE on Oracle Standard Edition 29.05.2024 by Oracle Team by Alexandre Nestor Introduction The Oracle database Standard Edition do not have the Transparent Tablespace Encryption (TDE) feature which is a part of ASO (Advanced Security), and ASO is availabale only on Entreprise Edition version. But encryption can still be(…)
Oracle ODA X10-L storage configuration is different from what you may expect 09.04.2024 by Jérôme Dubar Introduction Oracle Database Appliance X10 lineup is available since September 2023. Compared to X9-2 lineup, biggest changes are the AMD Epyc processors replacing Intel Xeons, and new license model regarding Standard Edition 2, clarified by Oracle several weeks ago.
Oracle ODA patching: ASR manager stuck to old version 03.04.2024 by Jérôme Dubar Introduction Patching an Oracle Database Appliance is mainly applying 3 patches: the system patch, including OS and Grid Infrastructure updates, the storage patch for data disks and disk controllers, and the DB patch for DB homes and databases. ASR manager(…)
Oracle REKEY operation on Oracle Database configured with Oracle Key Vault 02.04.2024 by Oracle Team REKEY Oracle database configured with Oracle Key Vault(…)
Oracle ODA X10 lineup now supports Standard Edition 2 01.04.2024 by Jérôme Dubar Introduction 6 months ago, Oracle introduced the new Oracle Database Appliance X10 lineup. The biggest surprise came from the supported editions: these new ODAs were Enterprise Edition only! This was because Standard Edition 2 license conditions were not compatible with(…)
Oracle ZDM Physical Online Migration – A success story 01.04.2024 by Marc Wagner I have been recently blogging about ZDM Physical Online Migration where I was explaining this migration method and preparing customer On-Premises to ExaCC migration. See my blog, https://www.dbi-services.com/blog/physical-online-migration-to-exacc-with-oracle-zero-downtime-migration-zdm/. I have now had the opportunity to migrate(…)
Oracle ZDM Physical Online Migration failing during ZDM_SWITCHOVER_SRC phase 31.03.2024 by Marc Wagner When using ZDM for a Physical Online Migration, even in the last current version, 21.4.5.0.0, switchover is failing. In this blog, I will share the reason and the solution to solve the problem before moving forward with the migration.