Andrey Goryunov

Oracle

Silent Installation of RAC 12c database

Nowadays, everyone is installing Oracle Database 12c in different variants, posting screenshots, and discussing the ...

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UDM is watching you, UDMs

With time monitoring of several thousand targets of different versions and on different operating systems accumulates ...

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Proactive FRA Monitoring Using OEM Metrics

Oracle’s built-in thresholds for the Flash Recovery Area (FRA) are a bit like a strict landlord: they’re set at 85% and ...

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Change of database passwords through OEM

Changing passwords for system database accounts is a necessary but often tedious routine. However, with Oracle ...

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Add space to tablespace - corrective action in OEM 13c

OEM 13c came out with a good new feature as a corrective action to add space to tablespaces. It could be done in OEM ...

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Duplication: divide et impera

Every Monday morning starts with the same routine: refreshing QA databases from PeopleSoft production. Even though the ...

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Cloning Oracle grid infrastructure using Ansible

Sometimes your organization may decide to move to new hardware, to a new data center, and you, as an Oracle DBA, would ...

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Data Guard Cascaded Standby Support in DB12c

Oracle Database 12c brought more than 500 new features, and many of them are related to Data Guard enhancements. Along ...

Oracle

Database Validation in Data Guard 12c

Introduction to validate database in db12c DGMGRL was never difficult to use; however, it was not providing enough ...

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DBA_SCHEDULER_RUNNING_JOBS, where have you been?!

Backstory Where: Meeting room, Pythian office, Sydney, Australia. When: Afternoon, after lunch time. What: Discussion ...

Oracle

Data Pump Monitoring

During database maintenance, one of the most critical questions is: "When will it be finished?" Whether it is an ...

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Chopt Utility

Introduction There is a new tool came with Oracle 11g Rel.2 that helps to modify options in installed oracle home ...

Oracle

CheckSystemSpace ignorance

Context Every installation is unique. It can be the same software and hardware but one installation will squease you ...

Redo Transport Compression

I was co-presenting recently at Sydney Oracle Meetup about Data Guard Compression and in preparation I did some tests ...

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RDBMS Online Patching

If you support Oracle RDBMS 11.2.0.2 and want to zero downtime applying patches to databases then it is time to have a ...

Oracle

RMAN duplicate in details

Its all started from the question on communities.oracle.com An “enhancement” in 11.2 prevents RMAN duplicating non ...

Oracle

Fixing the Failed Status of imageinfo on Exadata Compute Node

Background I was conducting regular OS patching of all the Exadata components when one of compute nodes caused ...

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Andrey Goryunov

Posts by Andrey Goryunov

Silent Installation of RAC 12c database

UDM is watching you, UDMs

Proactive FRA Monitoring Using OEM Metrics

Change of database passwords through OEM

Add space to tablespace - corrective action in OEM 13c

Duplication: divide et impera

Cloning Oracle grid infrastructure using Ansible

Data Guard Cascaded Standby Support in DB12c

Database Validation in Data Guard 12c

DBA_SCHEDULER_RUNNING_JOBS, where have you been?!

Data Pump Monitoring

Chopt Utility

CheckSystemSpace ignorance

Redo Transport Compression

RDBMS Online Patching

RMAN duplicate in details

Fixing the Failed Status of imageinfo on Exadata Compute Node

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