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Oracle DMK release 2.2.0 new features / Windows support.

DMK is a Database Management Kit that can be used in various database environments. It simplifies command-line tasks for Databases Administrator on Unix and Windows systems. It supports multiple databases including Oracle, MongoDB, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL. It also includes additional modules for automating RMAN(…)

Optimize materialization of Exadata PDB sparse clones

Well, this blog is unfortunately reserved to DBA folk running Oracle engineered systems #Exadata, #ExaCC, #ExaCS and Oracle Multitenant database (aka. CDB) architecture.One of our #ExaCC customer has a strong DevOps focused business and heavily relies on Exadata sparse clones(…)

Snapshot solutions with Oracle Standard Edition SE2

Would you like to quickly provide your engineering team with a real production environment database with updated data to develop new features? Does your operational team need a copy of the production database to test a new release or a(…)

Statspack with Oracle Database 19c and Multitenant

Introduction When it comes to performance analysis on Oracle databases, everybody think about Diagnostic Pack. This is a very complete tool and it brings much more metrics than a DBA can analyze. But there is a big drawback with this(…)

Auto Upgrade of non CDB to PDB with autoupgrade.jar in Oracle 21c

Since Oracle 21c it is possible to convert the non CDB database into a PDB directly during the upgrade using the Oracle Autoupgrade Tool. This is an important enhancement, because with Oracle 21c the non CDB architecture is desupported,(…)

Creating an Oracle Snapshot Copy PDB on top of ASM

Creating a snapshopt copy Pluggable Database (PDB) on top of Automatic Storage Management (ASM) is not possible, because you need to have a filesystem which supports sparse files. According the following MOS-Note sparse files are supported on Automatic Storage Management(…)

Amazon RDS Oracle in Multitenant

By Franck Pachot . AWS has just added the possibility to create your oracle Database as as CDB (Container Database), the “new” architecture of Oracle where an instance can manage multiple databases, adding a new level between the heavy(…)

Is it possible to switch a service between 2 pluggable databases?

Introduction In an Oracle database, services have multiple purposes: identifying group of users prior authenticating them enabling/disabling access to a database for particular groups managing preferred nodes on a RAC configuration redirecting users to the primary after a switchover/failover when(…)

Oracle ACFS: “du” vs. “df” and “acfsutil info”

By Franck Pachot . This is a demo about Oracle ACFS snapshots, and how to understand the used and free space, as displayed by “df”, when there are modifications in the base parent or the snapshot children. The important(…)

Some myths about PostgreSQL vs. Oracle

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(…)