Why you should not uninstall Database Vault from a CDB

Important Notice

Now that we are fully into database upgrades, here is an important item to be aware of: As ...

How to Automate Killing Inactive Sessions with Resource Manager

Problem Statement

Are you manually (or via a script) killing idle sessions on your database? As a ...

An Introduction to Chaos Engineering: Trying to Break Stuff

Some time ago there was a car ad with the slogan "Don't use it, abuse it", meaning that ...

How to use createGoldImage For Cloning in 19c

According to the Oracle Database Upgrade Guide, the traditional clone.pl script has been officially ...

Azure Platform and Network Infrastructure Security fundamentals

How To Downgrade Grid 19c Clusterware to 12.1

There may be many reasons for downgrading from Grid 19c to 12.1; however, the reason I am downgrading is to rerun a ...

Custom fix required when using latest JDK with Oracle E-Business Suite R12.1.3

Update 11-JUN-2021: Doc ID 2353710.1 has been updated. It is recommended now to apply two patches: ...

How to fix Error: OMSPatcher finds that previous patching session is not yet completed

When planning a patch for a client's OMS, I found the following:

OMSPatcher finds that previous patching session ...
                  

                

How reliable is autoupgrade.jar analyze mode?

It sounds like you hit one of those classic Oracle "gotchas" where the tool tells you everything is fine until the ...

Live Kernel Updates Without Downtime in New RHEL 8.1, 7.7 and 7.6 Release

Most often companies scheduling downtime for patching of the Linux kernel in a production environment follow strict ...

MariaDB Temporal Tables: Uncut & Uncensored (Part III)

(This is the third of a series of blog posts covering MariaDB Temporal Tables. The