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…
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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…
Playing with Application Continuity – Fundamentals
Today we will play with an exciting and not very well-known feature within the Oracle Database, called Application Continuity (AC) which is available with the Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), Oracle RAC One Node and Oracle Active Data Guard options and it masks outages from end users and applications by recovering the in-flight database sessions…
Playing with various Boot options and Kernels in Oracle Linux
Are you curious about what a boot is and how it works? Look no further! Check out this informative article on Oracle Linux where you can learn about boot options, available kernels, and more. Plus, you’ll get to play with exciting tools and applications that will make your life easier. Discover how to change your…
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…
2023 APAC Community Tour
The 2023 APAC Community tour is just around the corner. This year, I will present in South Korea, Japan and New Zealand (with a short stop in Singapore for customer visits). Please join me, and let’s talk Oracle; see you soon! – Korea, Seoul – Dec 4 – https://www.onoffmix.com/event/289115– Japan, Tokyo – Dec 6-8 –…
Oracle LAD Community Tour and More
One more year and once again after a few years of not happening due to Covid, getting ready to leave for a new Oracle LAD Community Tour (Ex-Grounbreakers and OTN Tours). This time the tour will go through 10 different countries, but in my case, I will only be participating in 8 of them. Here…
What is better than learning for Free? Free Cloud World Digital Pass & Oracle MAA
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 Digital Pass! The comp code to use at https://www.oracle.com/cloudworld/register/ is: OCWDIGITAL Of course, do…
Back-to-Basics: Understanding Backup and Recovery plus High Availability(Part II – Redo)
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 redo records. The changes are written by the server process to the redo log…
Back-to-Basics: Understanding Backup and Recovery plus High Availability(Part I)
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 a successful DBA and be more competitive in the market, you should have a…