Oracle 12c

Oracle Database 12c New Features: Uninstaller encapsulated into installation media

Among the Oracle 12c new features there is the addition of an uninstall tool encapsulated in the Oracle database binaries. There is no more the necessity to download the deinstallation tool for Oracle products (deinstall utility). In this blog I(…)

Oracle WebTier 12c release

I was surprised to see that Oracle WebTier 12c release has been available from OTN since June 2013. It comes with big changes. I guess that marketing Oracle Database 12c encouraged the outcome of newer versions of Oracle Middleware(…)

Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall (AVDF) 12.1 – installation on VirtualBox

This blog explains how to install Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall (AVDF) 12.1.1.1.0 on VirtualBox step-by-step. The configuration will be covered in a second blog. Download AVDF Binaries First of all, download the binaries on support.oracle.com: https://support.oracle.com/epmos/faces/ui/patch/PatchDetail.jspx?_afrLoop=140865428570210&patchId=16965974&_afrWindowMode=0&_adf.ctrl-state=1a5l4hvifo_4 Patch(…)

Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12c: Binaries installation

In a previous article, I have shown how to configure two servers in order to deploy a two-nodes 12c cluster. This time, I am going to describe the Grid Infrastructure 12c installation process using Oracle Universal Installer (OUI). We(…)

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(…)

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 &(…)