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ODA X10-L storage configuration is different from what you may expect

Introduction Oracle Database Appliance X10 lineup is available since September 2023. Compared to X9-2 lineup, biggest changes are the AMD Epyc processors replacing Intel Xeons, and new license model regarding Standard Edition 2, clarified by Oracle several weeks ago.

PostgreSQL 17: Split and Merge partitions

Since declarative partitioning was introduced in PostgreSQL 10 there have been several additions and enhancements throughout the PostgreSQL releases. PostgreSQL 17, expected to be released around September/October this year, is no exception to that and will come with two(…)

DevOps Best Practice – Backup and Share your work with GitHub

DevOps best practice to backup and share files by using GitHub. Learn to synchronize the files in your machine with a GitHub repository.

Faster Ansible

Even if Ansible is powerful and flexible, it can be considered “slow”. It will be anyway faster, and more consistent, than doing the same steps manually. Nevertheless, we will experiment to make it even faster. I found few of them(…)

PostgreSQL 17: Add allow_alter_system GUC

Some time ago I’ve written about the options to disable the “alter system” command in PostgreSQL. While there is nothing up to PostgreSQL 16 to do this natively, there are solutions for this requirement (see linked(…)

ODA patching: ASR manager stuck to old version

Introduction Patching an Oracle Database Appliance is mainly applying 3 patches: the system patch, including OS and Grid Infrastructure updates, the storage patch for data disks and disk controllers, and the DB patch for DB homes and databases. ASR manager(…)

REKEY operation on Oracle Database configured with Oracle Key Vault

REKEY Oracle database configured with Oracle Key Vault(…)

Enhance Containers Security – Prevent Encrypted Data Exfiltration with NeuVector

Containers security by preventing encrypted data exfiltration with NeuVector. Implementing zero trust architecture.

ODA X10 lineup now supports Standard Edition 2

Introduction 6 months ago, Oracle introduced the new Oracle Database Appliance X10 lineup. The biggest surprise came from the supported editions: these new ODAs were Enterprise Edition only! This was because Standard Edition 2 license conditions were not compatible with(…)

ZDM Physical Online Migration – A success story

I have been recently blogging about ZDM Physical Online Migration where I was explaining this migration method and preparing customer On-Premises to ExaCC migration. See my blog, https://www.dbi-services.com/blog/physical-online-migration-to-exacc-with-oracle-zero-downtime-migration-zdm/. I have now had the opportunity to migrate(…)