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: High Availability
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 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…
Playing with the new OCI Full Stack Disaster Recovery (Full Stack DR) – Part 2 – It is now time to Play
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: The primary DB (ATP) The 2 Mushop Compute VM’s Two Volume Groups (Boot volumes…
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…
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…