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Performance issues with the Sequence NEXTVAL call
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Performance issues with the Sequence NEXTVAL call
Is SELECTing from a sequence your Oracle Performance Problem? The answer to that question is: it might be! You ...
ORA-28043: Invalid bind credentials for DB-OID connection
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ORA-28043: Invalid bind credentials for DB-OID connection
Problem Statement
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Tracking ASM Metrics
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Tracking ASM Metrics
Collecting ASM IO Metrics
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The power of the Oracle Database Proxy authenticated connections
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The power of the Oracle Database Proxy authenticated connections
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OLTP type 64 compression and 'enq: TX - allocate ITL entry' on Exadata
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OLTP type 64 compression and 'enq: TX - allocate ITL entry' on Exadata
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Using the ILOM for troubleshooting on ODA
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Using the ILOM for troubleshooting on ODA
I worked on root cause analysis for a strange node reboot on client's Oracle Database Appliance yesterday.
Recovering an Oracle Database with Missing Redo
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Recovering an Oracle Database with Missing Redo
Background
I ran into a situation where we needed to recover from an old online backup which (due to some ...
What does "backup restore throttle speed" wait mean?
What does "backup restore throttle speed" wait mean?
After migrating a 10g database to 11g, I asked the Application team to start their tests in order to validate that ...
Slimming Down Oracle RAC 12c's resource footprint
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Slimming Down Oracle RAC 12c's resource footprint
I've been working on setting up a demo for my upcoming presentation on application continuity at RMOUG training days ...
Oracle Database 12c Patching: DBMS_QOPATCH, OPATCH_XML_INV, and datapatch
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Oracle Database 12c Patching: DBMS_QOPATCH, OPATCH_XML_INV, and datapatch
Background
Oracle Database 12c brings us many new features including: the long needed ability to run OPatch ...
Monitoring Cassandra with Grafana and Influx DB
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Monitoring Cassandra with Grafana and Influx DB
Hello, In this post I will explain how to set up Cassandra monitoring with influxDB and Grafana. This can also be used ...
Three hidden Azure SQL database gotchas
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Three hidden Azure SQL database gotchas
Context
Azure SQL Database is Microsoft’s Database as a Service (DBaaS) platform offering. It allows end ...
Licensing Oracle in a public cloud: the CPU calculation impact
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Licensing Oracle in a public cloud: the CPU calculation impact
Introduction: The Virtual Core Discrepancy
Update 2015-May-11: Jean-Michael dug up another Amazon Web ...
RMAN 11g : How to restore / duplicate to a more recent patchset
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RMAN 11g : How to restore / duplicate to a more recent patchset
In an Oracle DBA's life, you'll be regularly asked to work on applying a new patchset on a ...
Migration of Oracle Database to Amazon RDS using Golden Gate
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Migration of Oracle Database to Amazon RDS using Golden Gate
Migrating Oracle to Amazon RDS with Minimal Downtime
Amazon RDS is a web service used to manage databases, ...
Cassandra 101 : Understanding what Cassandra Is
Cassandra 101 : Understanding what Cassandra Is
An Introduction to Apache Cassandra
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Disable Lock Escalation in SQL Server
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Disable Lock Escalation in SQL Server
Introduction
If a lot of rows or pages are locked, the SQL Server escalates to a table-level lock, to save ...
Difference between Oracle's table and Mongo's collection
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Difference between Oracle's table and Mongo's collection
Roughly speaking, the notion of 'Tables' in Oracle is similar to MongoDB's 'Collections'. They are NOT identical ...
asmcmd> a better "du"
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asmcmd> a better "du"
I discovered ASM with a 10.1.0.3 RAC running on Linux Itanium and that was a big adventure. At this time there was ...
Making existing SQLPLUS Scripts 12c and Container DB (PDB) compatible
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Making existing SQLPLUS Scripts 12c and Container DB (PDB) compatible
Oracle 12c introduces new catalog features including CDB_ dictionary views (which include a CON_ID column) superseding ...
EM12c : Login to GUI with the correct password causes authentication failure
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EM12c : Login to GUI with the correct password causes authentication failure
Troubleshooting an EM12c Login "Authentication Failed" Error
So the other day I was trying to log in to my ...
Weblogic patch rollback issues in Oracle EBS R12.2
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Weblogic patch rollback issues in Oracle EBS R12.2
When you try to rollback a weblogic patch in Oracle EBS R12.2, you might run into issues similar to below:
Detecting source of MySQL Queries with comments
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Detecting source of MySQL Queries with comments
Background
As a MySQL DBA I already know the ...
How to migrate a Database using GoldenGate
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How to migrate a Database using GoldenGate
There are many ways to migrate a database from A ...
Permissions in Redshift administration
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Permissions in Redshift administration
As with any database ...
My thoughts on the resilience of Cassandra
My thoughts on the resilience of Cassandra
The Resilience of Apache Cassandra: An ...
Merging Apps Patches in Oracle EBS R12.2
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Merging Apps Patches in Oracle EBS R12.2
It’s public knowledge that the traditional patching ...
Performance problems with Dynamic Statistics in Oracle 12c
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Performance problems with Dynamic Statistics in Oracle 12c
Test Case Preparation
I’ve been making some ...
fsfreeze in Linux
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fsfreeze in Linux
Suspending and Resuming Access
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An introduction to extended data types in Oracle 12c
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An introduction to extended data types in Oracle 12c
Introduction
One of the lesser known new ...
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Pythian now offers Google BigQuery services to its enterprise customers
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Pythian’s new Apache Cassandra & DataStax services
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