Raivis Saldabols

Raivis has been with Pythian for over a decade now. His primary focus has been Oracle e-Bussines Suite and all technologies around it. DBA's role is nowadays shifting towards DevOps and he's closely following current world challenges and dreaming of future realities.

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Google ‘Backup and DR’ for Oracle

Whenever I’m thinking of Oracle backup, I basically think of putting Oracle RMAN backup to a disk (simplified version) ...

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Concurrent Processing Issues with Distributed Transactions Glitch

Introduction This is my first post in Pythian blog, and I wanted to share interesting use-cases that we've dealt with ...

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Can Concurrent Processing Abort Help Automation and Predictable Maintenance?

On the surface concurrent processing (CP) looks simple; a new request is pending for a while, then it runs and is ...

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ADOP edition cleanup

Oracle e-Business Suite administrators have access to pretty extensive documentation regarding Patching procedures. In ...

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Raivis Saldabols

Posts by Raivis Saldabols

Google ‘Backup and DR’ for Oracle

Concurrent Processing Issues with Distributed Transactions Glitch

Can Concurrent Processing Abort Help Automation and Predictable Maintenance?

ADOP edition cleanup

EBS: Access the PDF Outputs After the Migration to AWS

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