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Oracle Database 12c: Partitioning enhancements Part I – Reference partitioning

Oracle Database 12c offers several enhancements for partitioning. This blog posting will present some enhancements in relation to reference partitioning. The differences between the Oracle 11g R2 and Oracle 12c releases will be shown using practical examples. TRUNCATE and(…)

Oracle Java EE 7 – an overview

After announcing the availability of Oracle Java Enterprise Edition 7 (Java EE 7 or JEE7), Oracle organized a web event for the launch, covering topics such as the new features and the java community as well as showing some examples(…)

Data Pump in Oracle Database 12c: die wichtigsten Neuigkeiten

Letztes Jahr hat Oracle CEO Larry Ellison während der Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco ein neues Datenbank Release angekündigt, das nun endlich zur Verfügung steht. In diesem Blogbeitrag möchte ich einige der wichtigsten Data Pump-Neuigkeiten vorstellen. Eine komplette Übersicht(…)

Oracle WebLogic 12.1.2 – new features

The new Oracle WebLogic Sever 12c (WLS 12.1.2.0.0) was released on 11 July 2013. Since I read lots of documents, announcements, and information regarding this new version, I want to inform you about some new features that have an(…)

Oracle Database 12c: Information Lifecycle Management

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(…)

Errors while installing Oracle Database Vault on Oracle 11.2.0.3

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(…)

Oracle Database 12c: Binary installation

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(…)

Oracle 12c Backup & Recovery: What’s new?

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(…)

A comparison of Java Virtual Machines: Hotspot JVM vs JRockit JVM

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(…)

SQL Server 2014: AlwaysOn-Verfügbarkeitsgruppen – jetzt mit Microsoft Cloud!

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:(…)