3 Shares 0 Facebook 0 Twitter 1 Linkedin 0 Facebook-messenger 1 Whatsapp 1 Email I am very happy to announce that with the new 19.16 RU (July 2022 Release Update) for Oracle Database released last week (Doc ID 2521164.1), Data Guard is now more flexible regarding how it deals with mixed encryption configurations with the…
Announcement – Oracle Data Guard per Pluggable Database (DGPDB) is available today with the 21.7 RU
18 Shares 0 Facebook 1 Twitter 3 Linkedin 1 Facebook-messenger 12 Whatsapp 1 Email I am very happy to announce that with the new 21.7 RU for Oracle Database released today (Doc ID 2796590.1), a new functionality for Data Guard is out! Data Guard per Pluggable Database, or DGPDB for short, fully enables multi-tenancy at…
Back-to-Basics: Understanding Backup and Recovery plus High Availability(Part II – Redo)
2 Shares 0 Facebook 0 Twitter 0 Linkedin 0 Facebook-messenger 2 Whatsapp 0 Email What is redo? Let’s look briefly at the redo process. When Oracle blocks (the smallest unit of storage in a database) are changed, including UNDO blocks, Oracle records the changes in vector changes, which are referred to as redo entries or…
Back-to-Basics: Understanding Backup and Recovery plus High Availability(Part I)
3 Shares 0 Facebook 0 Twitter 1 Linkedin 0 Facebook-messenger 2 Whatsapp 0 Email The constant evolution of IT has, among other things, affected the role of a database administrator (DBA). Today the DBA is not merely a Database Administrator anymore but is morphing more into the Database Architect role. If you want to become…
Playing with Active Data Guard – DML Redirection and Automatic Block Media Recovery
5 Shares 0 Facebook 1 Twitter 3 Linkedin 0 Facebook-messenger 1 Whatsapp 0 Email Today we will be playing with two functionalities of Oracle Active Data Guard (ADG): DML Redirection Automatic Block Media Recovery DML Redirection is the capability ADG has to redirect DML operations made in the active-standby node to the primary node without…
Some amazing news – a new adventure in my career is just starting
2 Shares 0 Facebook 2 Twitter 0 Linkedin 0 Facebook-messenger 0 Whatsapp 0 Email After 33 years working with Oracle technologies and very close to Oracle (helping with the creation of Oracle Brazil, contracted by Oracle Education, and nearly 15 years in the ACE Program) it is now the right time to join Oracle. From…
Playing with Oracle Database Security Assessment Tool (DBSAT)
2 Shares 1 Facebook 1 Twitter 0 Linkedin 0 Facebook-messenger 0 Whatsapp 0 Email The Database Security Assessment Tool (DBSAT) is an incredible free command line tool provided by Oracle Corporation as a utility to help you verify your database for common database security issues(including security policies and controls in place), as well as helping to identify possible…
Oracle Open World 2018 and More
0 Shares 0 Facebook 0 Twitter 0 Linkedin 0 Facebook-messenger 0 Whatsapp 0 Email Hi Everyone! These have been crazy weeks, but almost ready to board to another trip to Oracle Open World. I will like to thank everyone that participated on my Oracle Webcast last week “Does Cloud Mean the End of the DBA?…
Playing with ADWC (Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud Service)
0 Shares 0 Facebook 0 Twitter 0 Linkedin 0 Facebook-messenger 0 Whatsapp 0 Email Oracle has launched Oracle 18c and the Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud Service (ADWC). Many people call the Oracle 18c as the Autonomous database, and this is a huge mistake! Oracle 18c (that is in reality Oracle 12.2.0.2) is not an autonomous…
Playing with Oracle Ravello – Migrating your VMs to the Cloud
0 Shares 0 Facebook 0 Twitter 0 Linkedin 0 Facebook-messenger 0 Whatsapp 0 Email Hello everyone, A few years back we had the boom of the “Private Cloud” rush, where everyone started to implement virtualization technologies to make a better use of it Infrastructure resources and improve high availability, scalability and innovation! Now to simplify…