Oracle

Exploring Vector Search in Oracle 23c AI

Exploring Vector Search in Oracle 23c AI(…)

Cleanup Audit Trail – the Full Picture

Oracle Database 23ai introduces several enhancements to unified auditing, focused on flexibility, and effectiveness. Some of the new key features are: Desupport of Traditional Auditing: Traditional auditing is desupported in Oracle 23ai, which means all auditing must now(…)

Oracle 23ai New Backup & Recovery Features

In this article I will give a short overview of some Backup & Recovery features in the new Oracle 23ai database. Meanwhile there are more than 300 new features in Oracle 23ai most of them reflecting artificial intelligence. I(…)

Simulate (Transparent Tablespace Encryption) TDE on Oracle Standard Edition

by Alexandre Nestor Introduction The Oracle database Standard Edition do not have the Transparent Tablespace Encryption (TDE) feature which is a part of ASO (Advanced Security), and ASO is availabale only on Entreprise Edition version. But encryption(…)

REKEY operation on Oracle Database configured with Oracle Key Vault

REKEY Oracle database configured with Oracle Key Vault(…)

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(…)

ZDM Physical Online Migration failing during ZDM_SWITCHOVER_SRC phase

When using ZDM for a Physical Online Migration, even in the last current version, 21.4.5.0.0, switchover is failing. In this blog, I will share the reason and the solution to solve the problem before moving forward with the migration.

Clone Oracle Database configured with Oracle Key Vault (OKV)

How to clone an Oracle Database which is configured to store the TDE (encryption keys) in the Oracle Key Vault (OKV)(…)

Patching Oracle databases with Nutanix NDB

A few years back I had the great opportunity to test Nutanix NDB, at that time called Nutanix Era, and I had written a few blogs about provisioning Oracle databases, taking snapshot, log catchup, cloning a database, restoring a database,(…)

Oracle Data Redaction or how to hide critical information

Oracle Data Redaction: What It Is and How to use it. A quick example usage case.