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OCI Database Cloud Patching of Database & Infrastructure With CLI

Oracle Patching of Databases (DB) and Grid Infrastructure (GI) is a routine and recommended process for any Oracle ...

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OCI Database Cloud Service Patching of Database and Grid Infrastructure Using OCI CLI

Oracle

Tips for Better Capacity Planning on Exadata

Exadata X8-2 comes with up to 3 Petabytes (PB) of raw disk capacity. This post briefly explains the basics of capacity ...

Oracle

Part Six: Deploying High Availability Applications in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

This is the sixth in a series of blog posts, that covers the details to deploy the Oracle Management Servers for a high ...

Oracle

ExaCC vs. ExaCS – Which One is Right for You?

Exadata has been Oracle’s gold standard platform for running mission-critical Oracle databases for over a decade. ...

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 ...

Cloud Migration

How to Migrate Oracle Applications 11.5.10.2 from on-premises SunOS fleet to Linux on AWS

It’s no secret that many companies have been moving existing on-premises environments to the cloud. They all have ...

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Renewing the (Default) PMM Certificate

Introduction Recently one of our colleagues was struggling with the default self-signed SSL certificate that ships with ...

Oracle

Exadata: Automating Compliance Checks

Introduction to Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) I wanted to share a brief summary–a cheat sheet–to highlight the ...

Oracle

Apex Interactive Report: A link column with a clickable icon

Apex Interactive Report In a couple of cases, we want to have a button (or an image) added to an IR column working with ...

Google Cloud

Automated Database Backups for Cloud Spanner Using Terraform

This post shows how to use cloudspannerecosystem/scheduled-backups to configure scheduled backups for your cloud ...

Oracle

Practical Tips For Moving Indexes Between Tablespaces

From time to time, a simple request to reorganize space in a tablespace leads to a more complex solution. Here’s how we ...

Oracle

ORA-19665: Size in File Header Does Not Match Actual File Size of String

I received the above message related to an ORA-7445 on my 11.2.0.4 database: ORA-07445: exception encountered: core ...

Oracle

Exadata Health Check: My Top 5 Tools and Features

From ORAchk/EXAchk/ODAchk, Database Security Assessment Tool (DBSAT) and Hang Manager, to Cluster Health Advisor (CHA), ...

Oracle

CVE-2021-44228 and Your Oracle E-Business Suite/Fusion Middleware Systems

For many of us, the recent log4j vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) became a severe headache this past weekend. I thought ...

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OCI Database Cloud Patching of Database & Infrastructure With CLI

OCI Database Cloud Service Patching of Database and Grid Infrastructure Using OCI CLI

Tips for Better Capacity Planning on Exadata

Part Six: Deploying High Availability Applications in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

ExaCC vs. ExaCS – Which One is Right for You?

Fixing the Failed Status of imageinfo on Exadata Compute Node

How to Migrate Oracle Applications 11.5.10.2 from on-premises SunOS fleet to Linux on AWS

Renewing the (Default) PMM Certificate

Exadata: Automating Compliance Checks

Apex Interactive Report: A link column with a clickable icon

Automated Database Backups for Cloud Spanner Using Terraform

Practical Tips For Moving Indexes Between Tablespaces

ORA-19665: Size in File Header Does Not Match Actual File Size of String

Exadata Health Check: My Top 5 Tools and Features

CVE-2021-44228 and Your Oracle E-Business Suite/Fusion Middleware Systems

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