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…
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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…
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…
The Forgotten Link To The Cloud
0 Shares 0 Facebook 0 Twitter 0 Linkedin 0 Facebook-messenger 0 Whatsapp 0 Email (Note: This article was also published at Oracle.com – https://blogs.oracle.com/database/the-forgotten-link-to-the-cloud) Last year when presenting a session at Collaborate’17 in Las Vegas regarding Tips and Best Practices for DBAs, I went thru the evolution of the DBA profession and also gave a…
Playing with Oracle Cloud – Creating a Hybrid DR Deployment
0 Shares 0 Facebook 0 Twitter 0 Linkedin 0 Facebook-messenger 0 Whatsapp 0 Email On this article, we will create a Hybrid Disaster Recovery (DR by using Data Guard) Oracle Database Cloud Service database deployment with a primary database on-premises and a standby database in the cloud. This can be used to implement an improve the high availability…
Playing with Oracle Database Cloud – Migrating to Cloud using an Oracle Cloud Backup
0 Shares 0 Facebook 0 Twitter 0 Linkedin 0 Facebook-messenger 0 Whatsapp 0 Email The idea for this scenario is to learn how to migrate an Oracle Database from on-premises to Oracle Cloud DBaaS by using a previously done backup using Oracle Cloud Backup Services. First, we will create an Oracle Database Cloud Services database deployment…
Playing with Oracle Database Cloud Backup Service
0 Shares 0 Facebook 0 Twitter 0 Linkedin 0 Facebook-messenger 0 Whatsapp 0 Email This article will show you how easy is to make use of Oracle Cloud to securely store all our on-premises Oracle Database Backups. Note that backups stored in Oracle Cloud can also be used to create new Oracle Database Instances (DBaaS)….