By Franck Pachot . In the Oracle Public Cloud, fast provisioning gets all its meaning when creating a RAC database service: in one hour you can get an operational highly available multitenant database. You can even create it in Data Guard for Disaster Recovery. Now, Oracle is pushing ACFS to store the datafiles rather than direct ASM. Especially in multitenant…
By Franck Pachot . By default, all data is visible in the datafiles. Transparent Tablespace Encryption (TDE) can be used to get them encrypted. It requires Enterprise Edition plus Advanced Security Option. Except in the Oracle Cloud when it is available – and mandatory – in all editions. And we can foresee that security policies will be enforced in the…
By Franck Pachot . You can accept to do NOLOGGING operations on bulk loads or index build according that you do a backup just after, and that your recovery plan mentions how to load the data again in case of media recovery. With a standby database, we usually force logging because we want redo to be generated for all operations…
By Mouhamadou Diaw As of Oracle Database 12c Release 2 (12.2.0.1), when a physical standby database is converted into a primary you have the option to keep any sessions connected to the physical standby, without disruption, during the switchover/failover. When the database is reopened as the primary, the suspended sessions resume their operations as if nothing had happened. If the…
By Franck Pachot . Materialized views is a very old feature (you may remember that it was called snapshots a long time ago). It has all advantages of a view, as you can define any select statement that joins, filters, aggregates, and see it as one table. It has all advantages of a table, as it is stored in one…
By William Sescu I am planning to backup my 12R2 container database, because a huge application change is coming up, and I want to be sure that I have a good RMAN backup beforehand. For that particular DB, I want to do it with a cold backup in combination with RMAN tags. Unfortunately I don’t have any backups at the…
By William Sescu From the RMAN point of view, you have generally two possibilities to store your backups, on Disk or on Tape. In case of a single instance, it doesn’t really matter from the accessible or inaccessible point of view. However, in a DataGuard environment it makes a huge difference. Per default, backups to Tape are always accessible and…
By Mouhamadou Diaw With Oracle 12cR2 it is now possible to configure multiple observers within a single Oracle Data Guard broker configuration. Multiple observers provide an immediate benefit for High Availability. If one observer fails, there are additional observers that can continue to monitor the status of the configuration. In this blog we are going to talk about this new…
It’s time to a new blog about partitioning improvement in 12cR2. After auto-list partitioning and multi-column list partitioning & read-only partitions, I’ll demonstrate how we can easily convert a non-partitioned table to a partitioned table…online ! As a reminder, the way to convert a table to a partitioned table were to use the DBMS_REDEFINITION package (since 9i to 12cR1) which…
By Franck Pachot . This follows the comments on Clemens Bleile post about SQL Plan Directives in Oracle 12.2 where he discovered a new behavior that is not documented. The feature is good: bypass the cardinality feedback overhead when the query is fast anyway. Feature In Clemens Bleile post about SQL Plan Directives changes in 12cR2 he determined than the…
By William Sescu I would like to make my DataGuard environment more secure, by eliminating the typing of “connect sys/Manager1” for my DGMGRL commands. Especially the ones, that I have in my scripts. For example: oracle@dbidg01:/home/oracle/ [DBIT122] dgmgrl <<-EOF > connect sys/Manager1 > show configuration verbose; > EOF or something like that: oracle@dbidg01:/u01/app/oracle/local/dg/ [DBIT122] cat show_config.dg connect sys/Manager1; show configuration;…
By William Sescu I am not a big fan of having passwords in clear text laying around. This applies not only to application servers, but also for my Data Guard observer. I do have a script for starting the observer that is reading a config file dgobserver.cfg, and this file contains the Username, Passwords and the Connectstring to my Primary…
