After an incredibly productive and inspiring week at Oracle AI World 2025 in Las Vegas, it’s time to keep the momentum going! It was an honor to present technical sessions, a hands-on lab, and an executive roundtable, and to spend valuable time at the MAA HUB booth meeting customers, partners, and Oracle colleagues from all…
Category: Data Guard
Oracle AI World 2025: Maximize Resilience, Scale, and Availability with the MAA Team
The countdown is on — Oracle AI World 2025 in Las Vegas is almost here! Suppose data resiliency, continuous operations, and mission-critical performance are top priorities for your organization. In that case, the Oracle Mission-Critical Database Product Management Team sessions are the ones you simply can’t afford to miss. From high-impact learning sessions to hands-on…
Introducing the Tech Resilience Show: Inside Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) Series
Welcome to the “Tech Resilience Show: Inside Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) Series.” I am your host, Francisco Munoz Alvarez. This first episode will highlight a strategic product within MAA that can add high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) capabilities to an Oracle Database; of course, we are talking about Oracle Active Data Guard….
Playing with Autonomous Data Guard – Protecting your data against any unwanted disaster situation
As you know, implementing a disaster recovery (DR) strategy to adequately protect our data recoverability and availability, plus our business continuity, can be a very stressful experience. What’s worse is that it could take a lot of effort and time to implement it properly. When talking about High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR), it…
OracleMAA comes to Japan – Come and Join me
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 meet me at any of my following sessions (Dates and Times in Japan Time…
Announcement – Data Guard Mixed Encryption Configuration New Parameter and Behaviour is now available with the DB 19.16 RU
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 introduction of the new TABLESPACE_ENCRYPTION initialization parameter. Previously when having a hybrid DR environment…
Announcement – Oracle Data Guard per Pluggable Database (DGPDB) is available today with the 21.7 RU
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 high availability level. Ludovico Caldara is talking about this new functionality in an official…
Playing with Active Data Guard – DML Redirection and Automatic Block Media Recovery
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 impacting its protection of it (by redirecting all DML transactions to the primary database…