OracleMAA by Francisco Munoz Alvarez
Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA), Data Guard and other topics – Remember: Knowledge is only valuable if shared!
In the world of IT infrastructure, cloud platforms, and enterprise data management, two terms appear in almost every business continuity conversation: Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO). They are often mentioned together, and for good reason. Both are essential for defining how an organization responds to failures, outages, disasters, cyber incidents, and…
I am excited to share several upcoming speaking engagements across Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, where I will have the opportunity to connect with technology leaders, Oracle professionals, developers, customers, partners, and community members around some of the most important topics shaping the future of enterprise data platforms. In the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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? DBA 18.0 – Life after 18c”. I was a success with a huge number…
The Requirement Increase security when connecting via SSH to the Oracle OS account at Oracle Cloud by implementing two factor authentication (TFA or 2FA). The Environment Oracle Cloud Instance OS: Oracle Linux 6.9 The Implementation For this exercise we will implement Google Authenticator as our TFA solution in our Oracle Cloud Instance and configure it…
I have installed SQL Developer (with JDK) on Windows many times before, and almost all the time I receive the system error bellow when trying to execute it by the first time. Due to this, I decided to publish the solution to this annoying issue. We can easily fix this issue by following these simple…