1 Shares 0 Facebook 1 Twitter 0 Linkedin 0 Facebook-messenger 0 Whatsapp 0 Email This middle November, I will be presenting three sessions at one of my favourite events, the DB Tech Showcase in Tokyo, Japan. This is a free event, and if you are in Japan, please feel free to register and come to…
Playing with the new OCI Full Stack Disaster Recovery (Full Stack DR) – Part 2 – It is now time to Play
0 Shares 0 Facebook 0 Twitter 0 Linkedin 0 Facebook-messenger 0 Whatsapp 0 Email Note: You can review the environment setup part of the tutorial here. Now that we have all DRPGs created and associated, it is time to add members to each DRPG (primary and standby). For the primary (Ashburn) DRPG we will add:…
Playing with the new OCI Full Stack DR – Part 1 – Preparing the Environment
2 Shares 0 Facebook 0 Twitter 0 Linkedin 0 Facebook-messenger 1 Whatsapp 1 Email I am very happy to announce the GA of the new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) solution that the Oracle MAA team has been working very hard to bring to you (Thank you, Suraj Ramesh). Today we will play with the new,…
What is better than learning for Free? Free Cloud World Digital Pass & Oracle MAA
0 Shares 0 Facebook 0 Twitter 0 Linkedin 0 Facebook-messenger 0 Whatsapp 0 Email This week is Oracle Cloud World in Las Vegas. Can’t make it in-person? Not a problem, there’s STILL a way to catch much of the content, digitally. And, I have a code you can use to get a free Cloud World…
Announcement – Data Guard Mixed Encryption Configuration New Parameter and Behaviour is now available with the DB 19.16 RU
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…