PRKO-2002 : small things, large shadows

This short blog post is a reminder to remember the syntax. I was just trying to bring down local listeners at half rack ...

Step-by-step guide to January 2016 PSU patch apply on 12c drid and RDBMS homes in Linux

How to build a multi-domain cluster with AlwaysOn availability groups - SQL Server 2016

SQL Server 2016 is making lots of news, and promises to be a revolutionary SQL Server version. In talking about ...

An UNDO in a PDB in Oracle 12c?

Network multicast support on Azure

Oracle RAC on Azure

Microsoft Azure provides an acceptable and affordable platform for a training environment. I am an Oracle DBA, and use ...

Oracle's CREATE INDEX command can take a hint

While experimenting with Auto DOP (parallel_degree_policy) in Oracle 12c, I stumbled upon a highly effective (and ...

GoldenGate 12.2 big data adapters: part 1 - HDFS

December 2015 brought us a new version of GoldenGate, and a new version for Big Data adapters for the GoldenGate. Let's ...

Data encryption at rest

This blog post was co-authored by Peter Sylvester and Valerie Parham-Thompson Introduced in version 10.1.3 (and with ...

Google Cloud Dataproc in ETL pipeline - part 1 (logging)

Google Cloud Dataproc, now generally available, provides access to fully managed Hadoop and Apache Spark clusters, and ...