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ODA version 19.17 is available: how to patch?

How to patch your ODA to 19.17(…)

Why ODA reimaging doesn’t work on the first try?

Introduction Reimaging an ODA is a good practice for a lot of reasons. To make your ODA cleaner if it’s running for many years and if you patch regularly. To simplify patching because if you’re late you could have to(…)

How to patch your ODA lite to 18.3.0.0.0

Even you don’t need 18c, or you’re not ready for this release, this patch will also update your 11gR2, 12cR1 and 12cR2 databases to the latest PSU available on ODA, it means for example the patchset from last July if(…)

How reimaging detects the ODA hardware?

A long time ago, ODA referred to the only model that existed (nearly). Actually, not so long time ago, as ODA X3, X4 and X5 were released between 2013 and 2015. And it was quite the same hardware. Now there(…)

ODA X6 database classes and shapes

By Franck Pachot . On the Oracle Database Appliance, like on the Oracle public Cloud, you define the CPU capacity with ‘shapes’. On the latest ODA, the X6, we have a new interface to provision a database. Let’s look(…)

ODA X6 command line and Web Console

By Franck Pachot . The ODA X6 comes with a new command line (odacli) which replaces oakcli, and with a small web console which can display information about the appliance, the databases and the provisioning jobs. It also has the(…)

Redo log block size on ODA X6 all flash

By Franck Pachot . On the Oracle Database Appliance, the redo logs are on Flash storage (and with X6 everything is on Flash storage) so you may wonder if we can benefit from 4k redo blocksize. Here are some tests(…)

ODA X6-2S and ODA X6-2M for EE and SE2

By Franck Pachot . After the announcement of the death of SE1 and SE we wondered what Oracle will do for Small and Medium Enterprises and entry level products. The answer was postgres the Oracle Cloud Services, but that's for(…)