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Oracle APEX - Hosting and Licensing

Oracle APEX is a powerful no-cost feature of the Oracle Database, but deploying it effectively requires navigating a ...

Cloud

Kafka Monitoring on Kubernetes with Datadog

Sometimes, during software modernization or development with microservices architecture, a requirement for a message ...

Oracle

Using AI for database administration automation - extracting useful information from log files

When talking about automation for Oracle Database Administration, besides automation of software installation and ...

Oracle

Oracle ASM rebalance - Turn it up. To 11?

If you've ever seen or heard of the movie This is Spinal Tap, then you have likely heard the phrase "Turn it up to 11." ...

Oracle

Part 2: Oracle Cloud Backups to AWS S3

Getting Started with Oracle Cloud Backups - Amazon Web Services (AWS) This is part 2 of a 3 part series on "Getting ...

Cloud

How to enable binary logging on an Amazon RDS read replica

One of the more common struggles I’ve had to assist with in regard to Amazon RDS is enabling binary logging on read ...

Oracle

Investigating IO performance on Amazon RDS for Oracle

I've recently been involved in quite a few database migrations to Oracle RDS. One thing that I had noticed when dealing ...

Oracle

IPv6 Formatting for JDBC and SQLPlus

Does IPv6 formatting for JDBC and SQLPlus seem new to you well, it's been available since 11gR2. You're familiar with ...

MySQL

fsfreeze in Linux

Suspending and Resuming Access A filesystem can be frozen using following command: # /sbin/fsfreeze -f /data Now if you ...

Oracle

Linux HugePages for Oracle on Amazon EC2

Situation One of the optimizations available to us when running Oracle on Linux is huge page support. This feature of ...

Oracle

Enable Oracle Flash Cache on Red Hat Linux

The Oracle Smart Flash Cache feature was originally introduced in the 11gR2 version of Oracle Database. It works as an ...

Cloud

Data Streaming with Kafka and Flink on AWS – Part 1

Apache Kafka and Apache Flink are popular data streaming applications platforms. However, provisioning and managing ...

Oracle

AWS RDS: Read Oracle Traces from SQL*Plus

Today’s post is another dealing with AWS services. Let’s say you need to read trace files from RDS — how would you do ...

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Oracle APEX - Hosting and Licensing

Kafka Monitoring on Kubernetes with Datadog

Using AI for database administration automation - extracting useful information from log files

Oracle ASM rebalance - Turn it up. To 11?

Part 2: Oracle Cloud Backups to AWS S3

How to enable binary logging on an Amazon RDS read replica

Investigating IO performance on Amazon RDS for Oracle

IPv6 Formatting for JDBC and SQLPlus

fsfreeze in Linux

Linux HugePages for Oracle on Amazon EC2

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Data Streaming with Kafka and Flink on AWS – Part 1

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