Technology Survey Oracle Database 12c: Information Lifecycle Management 26.07.2013 by Oracle Team More and more resources are used in companies to manage data. Most companies buy more and more storage systems because of poor resource utilization. Starting with Oracle 11g, Oracle has introduced Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) which can use different kinds(…)
Database management Errors while installing Oracle Database Vault on Oracle 11.2.0.3 22.07.2013 by Grégory Steulet During one of my last consulting missions, I had to install Oracle Database Vault on an existing Oracle environment. It clearly was not a straigthforward process, since I experienced some weird errors such as: ORA-28003: password verification for the specified(…)
Database management Oracle Database 12c: Binary installation 19.07.2013 by Grégory Steulet Introduction The aim of this blog is to present you the Oracle 12c Binary Installation with some of the preinstallation tasks. 12C Disk Space for(…)
Database management Oracle 12c Backup & Recovery: What’s new? 18.07.2013 by David Hueber After months of waiting, Oracle Database 12c is finally available. In this posting, I am going to provide a summary of the new features of Oracle 12c in terms Backup and Recovery. Pluggable, what else? For sure, the most(…)
Application integration & Middleware A comparison of Java Virtual Machines: Hotspot JVM vs JRockit JVM 16.07.2013 by Middleware Team You might know that there are many JVMs available today, but do you know the difference between them? In this blog I will not state all JVMs as it will take too much time 🙂 But I will talk about(…)
Database management SQL Server 2014: AlwaysOn-Verfügbarkeitsgruppen – jetzt mit Microsoft Cloud! 16.07.2013 by Stéphane Haby SQL Server 2014 bietet jetzt (oder bald :roll:) die Möglichkeit der Integration von AlwaysOn-Verfügbarkeitsgruppen mittels virtueller Maschinen, gehostet in der Windows-Azure-Infrastruktur (IaaS). Sie können sekundäre Datenbanken direkt in der Cloud vorhalten, wie das Beispiel zeigt:(…)
Database management Oracle Database 12c: Moving a datafile is now possible online 16.07.2013 by Oracle Team Gone are the days where you had to put a tablespace or your complete database offline in order to move or rename a datafile. Oracle 12c features a new command that allows to move datafiles when both database and(…)
Technology Survey High availability and disaster recovery on Windows Azure VMs 11.07.2013 by Stéphane Savorgnano To be honest, I am not a specialist of Windows Azure. In order to learn a little bit more about this subject, I decided to follow a TechEd Europe 2013 session about High Availability and Desaster Recovery on Windows(…)
Database management Oracle Database 12c: Flashback Data Archive (FDA) – new features 11.07.2013 by Oracle Team Oracle Database 12c was published in June and among the new features of this release are multiple improvements of the Flashback Data Archive (FDA), an option also known as Oracle Total Recall. In this post, I will present the(…)
Database management Oracle Database 12c: Oracle OEM express 09.07.2013 by Oracle Team Together with Oracle Database 12c, Oracle has introduced a new administration console named Oracle Enterprise Manager Express (Oracle OEM Express). This “light” version of Enterprise Manager Database Console – which is not supported in Oracle 12c anymore – is a(…)