Oracle Database

Migrate your database to 26ai on ODA

Introduction Oracle 26ai is not yet available on Bare Metal ODA, but it will probably be in a few weeks. For now, 26ai is available as a DB System on Oracle Database Appliance, meaning that it’s already possible to(…)

Installing and configuring Veeam RMAN plug-in on an ODA

I recently had to install and configure the Veeam RMAN plug-in on an ODA, and would like to provide the steps in this article, as it might be helpful for many other people. Create Veeam linux(…)

Troubleshooting Oracle Data Guard

Troubleshooting Oracle Data Guard when your standby database has errors or is not in sync(…)

Want to easily test Dbvisit StandbyMP for Oracle SE?

As you might know Dbvisit StandbyMP is a great Disaster Recovery solution for Oracle SE databases. Dbvisit recently communicated, providing now, a Test Drive system for customer to easily try the product and for partner to easily have a Demo(…)

Oracle Database Row Archiving

In a recent customer project, I was suffering to delete millions of rows from a LOG table. Removing 3 months of data took more than 30 minutes with the best optimization possible. After a while, I remembered(…)

Extract all DDL from an Oracle database

Introduction Extracting DDL is sometime useful for creating similar objects in another database without data. Basically everything can be extracted from a running Oracle database. The needs My customer asked me to replicate a database without any data. The goal(…)

Get prepared to move your Oracle databases to OCI

Introduction Cloud often raises in the top 3 solutions when thinking about Oracle infrastructure renewal. For obvious reasons: you do not need to buy any server, platform is already available, you pay as a subscription, you drastically reduce time to(…)

Nutanix Era with oracle databases : Part 6 – Refresh an oracle clone database

Now that we have cloned our ORATEST source database into a clone database named ORATCL1 (see Nutanix Era Blog part 5), we will see how we can refresh it and see the impacts on the oracle database itself. For(…)

Nutanix Era with oracle databases : Part 5 – Clone an oracle database

Now that we have our ORATEST database provisioned (see Nutanix Era blog part 3), that we could run snapshot and take Log Catch Up (see Nutanix Era Blog part 4), we will now see how we can clone(…)

Nutanix Era with oracle databases : Part 4 – Taking a snapshot and running Log Catch Up

Now that we have our ORATEST database provisioned (see Nutanix Era blog part 3), we will be looking how to run snapshot and Log Catch Up and how will this take effects on our oracle database. For more information(…)