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OOW Day 1: Oracle 12c – Data Guard new features

What a sunny day at the Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, temperatures over 30 degrees Celsius … don’t be jealous ;=) What should I start speaking about? Oracle Entreprise Manager Cloud Control 12c? Oracle VM or Oracle Database 12c? Well,(…)

OOW Day 1: Upgrading to Oracle Cloud Control 12c

Today, we had the chance to attend interesting sessions under a perfect sunny Californian weather :-). The first one was about best practices for an upgrade to Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c. The session described the real case of a US(…)

Oracle OpenWorld 2012 – the world is not enough: Larry’s keynote on Oracle 12c, etc.

I am pretty sure you are wondering what Larry Ellison announced in his Oracle OpenWorld keynote, especially concerning Oracle 12c! In fact there were three major announcements, which I will cover in this posting. But first, let’s start with Fujitsu’s(…)

Documentum job dm_FTIndexAgentBoot does not start anymore

The Documentum job dm_FTIndexAgentBoot does not start anymore and we have the following job status: The job object indicated the job was in progress. In this blog posting, I will describe how to analyze and solve this issue. Analysis The(…)

“ORA-01665: control file is not a standby control file”: what can I do?

You have certainly also received this error once in you Oracle DBA career: “ORA-01665: control file is not a standby control file” while trying to create a standby database with RMAN through a full database backup. In fact, the feature(…)

Linux: Disks diagnostic using smartctl

Facing disk issues such as corruption or block defect is thankfully not happening frequently. However when it does, the diagnose may look sometimes like a real struggle. This is forgetting that disks integrate since years the S.M.A.R.T technology. Good point,(…)

SnapManager for SQL Server: databases limitation policy

I recently talked to a customer about SnapManager, its recommendation on the number of databases and about a way to prevent the creation of more than 35 databases. The NetApp recommendation is no more than 35 databases on a single(…)

Oracle Middleware, administration and monitoring: a day at the DOAG SIG Middleware

I am in the train back to Basel (Switzerland) and I will try to summarize the day spent on a SIG Oracle Middleware of the DOAG (German Oracle User Group) session related to Oracle Middleware administration and monitoring. The different(…)

SQL Server 2012: Cumulative Update 3 (CU3) now available

This week, the third cumulative update was made available on the Microsoft website. What is in this CU for SQL Server 2012? This CU has 36 hotfixes: 25 for the engine 1 for SSAS 4 for SSIS 6 for SSRS(…)

Adding new tables to an existing Oracle GoldenGate replication

Once a replication environment is set up, it’s rarely forever. Adding tables to an Oracle GoldenGate replication group with minimal impact to the current replication is quite a difficult operation. This posting should help you with this task. In the example below,(…)