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Oracle OEM Cloud Control 12c upgrade to 12.1.0.4

In this blog post, I will describe how to upgrade from Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12.1.0.3 to OEM 12.1.0.4.0. I have already described the main new features of Cloud Control 12.1.0.4 version in an earlier post (Oracle OEM(…)

Documentum upgrade project: D2-Client and missing icons

The new D2-Client does not correctly display the icon for some formats. This usually happens when the icon.css is not up to date based on the content format in the repository. The solution is to find these formats and update the(…)

High availability in the Oracle landscape

It’s now several weeks I attended some event about high availability (HA). But what is actually high availability? According to our friend Wikipedia, HA is based on 3 main principals: Elimination of Single Point of Failure (SPoF) Reliable crossover (with(…)

How to measure Exadata SmartScan efficiency

By Franck Pachot . A thread on OTN Forum about Exadata came to the following question: “But how can I monitor if it is effectively used or not?”. This is a common question. There are 3 exclusive features coming(…)

SQL Server 2014: classic commit vs commit with delayed durability & I/Os

When you learn about SQL Server, you will often hear that a commit transaction is a synchronous operation and that you can trust it. In this blog post, I will provide some details about what we mean by synchronous(…)

Oracle OEM Cloud Control 12.1.0.4 – agent upgrade & patch

The new Oracle OEM Cloud Control 12.1.0.4 release migration makes it necessary for the DBA to migrate the old agent version to 12.1.0.4. If your infrastructure has a huge number of agents and if you want to apply the agent(…)

Documentum upgrade project: D2-Client, facets and xPlore

To enhance the search capability we had to configure xPlore to use the new customer attributes as facets and configure D2 to use the default and new facets. Configuring xPlore to use facets with the customer attributes Stop the Index(…)

Oracle OEM Cloud Control 12.1.0.4 – the new features

This document describes the main new features of Cloud Control 12.1.0.4. A lot of new features are coming with the 12.1.0.4 version I will describe the most important ones, but you can also refer to this Oracle documen: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E24628_01/doc.121/e25353/whats_new.htm#CEGFFGBI(…)

OAM 11gR2PS2 series – Introduction

In this blog post, I will share my experience acquired on a customer interesting challenge which was a critical mission. The mission was not as easy as expected. On my side, all troubles that could happen to migrate an entire(…)

Thinking about downgrading from Oracle Enterprise to Standard Edition?

By Franck Pachot . You are using an Oracle Enterprise Edition and thinking about downgrading to the Standard Edition? In this case, you must be sure that your applications are compatible. It’s not something easy to check. Here are(…)