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Oracle Database 12c: ACFS – un système de fichier pour vos bases

La version 12c d’Oracle Grid Infrastructure introduit de nombreuses nouveautés dans le support d’ACFS, le système de fichiers clusterisés d’Oracle. Nous abordons dans ce posting la capacité d’ACFS d’être le système de fichier de votre base de données ainsi que sa(…)

SQL Server 2012 SP1: Sixth Cumulative Update (CU6) available

Some days ago, Microsoft published the sixth Cumulative Update (CU6) for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Service Pack one, two months after the fifth one. As usual, if this Cumulative Update solves an issue you are facing, install it(…)

Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12c: prerequisites for installation

Grid infrastructure 12c has recently been released. In this posting, I will show that the installation prerequisites are quite similar between Grid Infrastructure 11g and 12c. We will see parts of them during a review for the deployment of(…)

Oracle 12c: Partitioning enhancements Part II – Other improvements

Oracle Database 12c offers several enhancements for partitioning. In a previous blog posting, I talked about reference partitioning enhancements. This post will present other enhancements in relation to general partitioning. Asynchronous index maintenance With Oracle database, a global index(…)

Oracle Database 12c : démarrage automatique des Pluggable Databases

Dans ce blog post, nous allons nous intéresser à la gestion des PDBs (Pluggable Database) dans Oracle 12c. Plus exactement, nous allons nous pencher sur l’arrêt et le démarrage automatiques des PDBs en utilisant le Server Control (srvctl) du(…)

Oracle Database 12c: The secret of moving datafiles online

Some time ago, my colleague Michael Schwalm wrote about a new Oracle Database 12c feature for moving database files online. In this post, we will not describe the syntax of the command, but focus on Oracle internals. To do(…)

Oracle Cloud Application Foundation for next-generation applications

On 11 July 2013, Oracle launched the so-called Cloud Application Foundation. An online launch event was organized on 31 July 2013 to introduce this new term in the Oracle Stack. This event had two parts: Keynote and Customer &(…)

Oracle Database 12c: PDBs not fully transportable yet

One of the benefits of the new Oracle multi-tenant database option is to create a kind of cloned environment through simple statements. This post will focus on the creation of pluggable database through a database link. The reason of(…)

Oracle Database 12c: SecureFiles enhancements

Oracle Database 12c features with some enhancements for LOB objects and particularly for the SecureFiles. This is not a revolution, but we can see that the range of possibilities with LOB objects increases with the different releases of Oracle…(…)

SQL Server 2012 SP1: Fifth Cumulative Update (CU5) available

On 16 July, Microsoft published the fifth Cumulative Update (CU5) for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Service Pack One. As usual, if this Cumulative Update solves an issue you are facing, install it quickly – otherwise, do not install it. Which(…)