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Reminders are an inevitable part of our personal and professional lives. Keep reminding of oneself about goals, priorities, and milestones is key to stay on top of things. This Log Buffer Edition is a reminder about all those not-to-be-missed blogs out there.
This week my DBA team satisfied a request to restore 1 month old lost data. A review of the RMAN backups showed that we indeed had a valid level 0 from the requested day which was 33 days ago. However, upon recovery, the necessary archive logs to bring the database to a consistent point, were…
It is not uncommon for Oracle to have something undocumented , and this is just another case of this ailment. We have a database in which we have two copies of the same backup, one we keep in the FRA, the other one in an external disk, which from time to time gets deleted from…
Just as information has become an integral part of technology, blogging has become an inseparable part of technology too. Database technologies are no exception and blogging in that arena is booming. This Log Buffer Edition is booming with some bombastic blog posts.
Sometimes, it’s humongous revolutions. Most of the time, it’s an itsy bitsy evolutionary steps. Today’s hack definitively sits in the second category, but I have the feeling it’s a little dab of abstraction that is going to provide a lot of itch relief.
When I was in high school, my practical arts teacher asked us to create a miniature of a structure. This meant looking at the blueprints of an existing structure and using it to create a small replica. I thought that this would be a great opportunity to learn more about reading blueprints and understanding what…
Personal highlights from Collaborate 2013 in Denver. Discussion of networking with old and new friends, technical sessions (performance forecasting and multi-block read internals) and the Pythian RAC Attack class.
Like in love there is no precondition, there are no limits held when it comes to the labor of love called as blogging. Lovingly this Log Buffer edition brings you some more roses from database arena.
I was recently playing with an Oracle XE database. The main benefit of Oracle XE is that it can be used free of charge. And unlike the other database editions on the Oracle Technology Network, it is free the restrictions in the OTN license agreement that restrict products to “developing, testing, prototyping and demonstrating your…

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