Introduction You can say everything about Oracle infrastructure possibilities but nothing compares to experience based on the realization of real projects. I did quite a lot of ODA projects during the past years (on other platforms too), and I would like to tell you why I trust this solution. And for that, I will tell you the story of one…
Introduction I always thought integration of Data Guard was a missing feature on Oracle Database Appliance. For sure, you can configure Data Guard manually as you do on a classic server, but as an appliance, ODA should have proposed an easier way for configuring that. After years of waiting for this feature, it’s now available, and I just tested it.…
By Franck Pachot . I may have mentioned in some previous blog post that, in my opinion, the names of Oracle Database features make sense on the vendor product management context more than in a user context. I’m not saying that it is good or bad. There are so many features, that can be combined, and that evolved for many…
Through this blog, I would like to show, with a real customer case, how I have been migrating databases in High Availability environment on an ODA. High Availability using Data Guard for Oracle Enterprise Edition or dbvisit for Oracle Standard Edition 2. One of the advantage here would be to use the Standby Database as fallback in case there would…
By Mouhamadou Diaw In an Oracle 20c Data Guard environment with a broker configured we can have following files called client-side broker files -The observer configuration file : observer.ora -The observer log file -The observer runtime datafile: fsfo.dat -The fast-start failover callout scripts (new feature in Oracle 20c) Before Oracle 20c, there was no default location for these files. Starting…
Introduction I’ve been dreaming of this kind of feature: just because most of the ODA configurations now include Disaster Recovery capabilities, through Data Guard or Dbvisit standy. If Dbvisit will obviously never be integrated to odacli, the lack of Data Guard features is now solved by the very latest 19.8 ODA software appliance kit. How Data Guard was implemented before…
By Franck Pachot . Announced by Larry Ellison last week, here it is: the Autonomous Data Guard. You can try it, unfortunately not on the Free Tier. First you create an Autonomous Database (ATP or ADW) and then you enable Autonomous Data Guard. You know that “Autonomous” is the marketing brand for the services that automate a lot of things,…
By Mouhamadou Diaw When dealing with cascading or far sync in a Data Guard environment, it is important to understand how to configure the RedoRoutes property. By default, a primary database sends redo to each transport destination that is configured in the destination. We can create more complex transport topology, depending of our environment, using the RedoRoutes property. Basically the…
By Franck Pachot . I originally wrote this as a comment on the following post that you may find on internet: https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/oracle-to-postgresql-reasons-to-migrate/ but my comment was not published (many links in it… I suppose it has been flagged as spam?) so I put it there. You should never take any decision on what you read on the internet without verifying.…
By Mouhamadou Diaw A far sync instance is like a standby instance as it can receive redo from the primary database and can ship that redo to other members of the Data Guard configuration. But unlike a physical standby instance, a far sync instance does not contain any datafiles and then can not be open for access. A far sync…
By Franck Pachot . In a previous post I introduced Tibero as The most compatible alternative to Oracle Database. Compatibility is one thing but one day you will want to compare the performance. I’ll not do any benchmark here but show you how you we can look at the performance with TPR – the Tibero Performance Repository – as an…
Introduction With the latest ODA X8 range, at least 80% of the customers could find an ODA configuration that fits their needs. For the others, either they can’t afford it, either they are already in the Cloud, or they need extremely large storage or EXADATA performance. Among these 80% of customers, only a few choose ODA. Let’s see how Oracle…
