Hi All, On February 4, 2014 at 9:30 am PT I will be talking on the next OTN Virtual Developer Day about Oracle VM and Oracle Database. Come and discover the answers for the following questions: Does an Oracle Database perform well on a virtualized environment? What virtualization technology is more stable and…
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Why use OVM for Oracle Databases
Some time ago I made a benchmark exercise to compare the performance of an Oracle Database running in a bare metal environment versus a virtualized environment to clear some of the main questions our team and clients in Revera have, such as: Does an Oracle Database performs well on a virtualized environment? What virtualization technology…
Are you getting short of SCN?
Did you know that Oracle has determine that some software bugs (affecting databases between version 10.1.0.5 and 11.2.0.3) could cause the database to attempt to exceed the current maximum SCN value (The limit is currently 281 trillion) causing a transaction to be cancelled by the database, and the application would see an error message. But…
What is new in 12c for Backup and Recovery?
OOW has announced the new Oracle Database 12c, and this new version of the database product as expected has introduced many new features and enhancements for Backup and Recovery, on this post I will introduce you to some of them. Of course, I cannot start talking about 12c without talk first about a revolutionary whole…
Playing with Oracle 11gR2, OEL 5.6 and VirtualBox 4.0.2 (4th Part)
Project Name 11gR2/2011 Author Francisco Munoz Alvarez Software Used Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.6 Oracle VirtualBox 4.0.2 Oracle 11.2.0.2 Database and Infrastructure Software Date 02/02/2011 The idea of this tutorial is to show you how you can create an Oracle Database 11gR2 using Oracle VirtualBox and OEL. This installation should never be used for Production or…
My European Tour–May 2011
May will be a very busy month with several seminars and conferences in Europe. I’ll be presenting some seminars for the Oracle Celebrity Series in UK, Germany, Spain and Slovakia, and also will be presenting at User Groups conferences at Finland and Bulgaria. The links to register to my seminars are: May 9-10, UK –…
Playing with Oracle 11gR2, OEL 5.6 and VirtualBox 4.0.2 (3rd Part)
Project Name 11gR2/2011 Author Francisco Munoz Alvarez Software Used Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.6 Oracle VirtualBox 4.0.2 Oracle 11.2.0.2 Database and Infrastructure Software Date 02/02/2011 The idea of this tutorial is to show you how you can create an Oracle Database 11gR2 using Oracle VirtualBox and OEL. This installation should never be used for Production or…
Playing with Oracle 11gR2, OEL 5.6 and VirtualBox 4.0.2 (1st Part)
Project Name 11gR2/2011 Author Francisco Munoz Alvarez Software Used Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.6 Oracle VirtualBox 4.0.2 Oracle 11.2.0.2 Database and Infrastructure Software Date 02/02/2011 The idea of this tutorial is to show you how you can create an Oracle Database 11gR2 using Oracle VirtualBox and OEL. This installation should never be used for Production or…
Playing with Oracle 11gR2, OEL 5.6 and VirtualBox 4.0.2 (2nd Part)
Project Name 11gR2/2011 Author Francisco Munoz Alvarez Software Used Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.6 Oracle VirtualBox 4.0.2 Oracle 11.2.0.2 Database and Infrastructure Software Date 02/02/2011 The idea of this tutorial is to show you how you can create an Oracle Database 11gR2 using Oracle VirtualBox and OEL. This installation should never be used for Production or…