Oracle AI Data Platform (AIDP): No-Nonsense Platform Overview
Oracle’s AI Data Platform (AIDP) is essentially an attempt to fix the biggest annoyance ...
Applying Patching Applying GRID INFRASTRUCTURE PATCH SET UPDATE 11.2.0.4.181016(Patch 28429134) for AIX (64-Bit) was a ...
GoldenGate for Big Data 12.3.2.1.1 introduces a new target — Google BigQuery. The BigQuery handler can work in two ...
Continuing my previous efforts in getting docker running on Oracle Linux in this blog post, I worked on getting Oracle ...
Welcome to part 6 of the series. The USE_PARTITION_WISE_GBY hint is "brand new," introduced in 12.2. I personally ...

So, here is the thing. We have a customer running a 11.2 Single Instance Oracle database on Windows. I know the version ...
Intro I am currently working on a project to install Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Release 13.3 and was ...
During Oracle RAC online patching, the GoldenGate resource must be relocated to a surviving node to maintain ...
Remote Diagnostic Agent (RDA) is often under-utilized. It has some very nice features such as database preinstallation ...
Troubleshooting datapatch failure As part of patching preparation, the following command was executed and failed: ...
From my experience, the one area where a DBA cannot afford to make errors is in database backup. When was the last time ...
Introduction After applying Oracle GoldenGate V12.2.0.1.170919 for Oracle Database 12c OPTIMIZER Patch for Bug# ...
In Part 1 of the series, we covered in detail how the PQ_DISTRIBUTE can change the data distribution method across ...
1 Pre-requisites / preparation 12.2 Grid Infrastructure and Database Upgrade steps for Exadata Database Machine running ...
Oracle, by default, ships preinstall RPMs only for Oracle Linux. Preinstall RPMs make the life of a DBA very easy by ...
When implementing GoldeGate solutions, something as simple as path to trail files can create havoc. What is the correct ...
In a previous blog How to use Oracle instant client docker images, I described how to obtain and customize an Oracle ...
Indexes increase read performance and allow queries to access data faster. But they also need to be updated when the ...
Situation It's feasible to delete agents and targets using GUI but can take a lot of work depending on configuration ...
There are two available, both Version 12.2. One is found on Docker Hub and the other on the Oracle Container Registry. ...
When is the best time to apply an Oracle quarterly patch? I suppose the answer is, "It depends." As it turns out, we ...
It was a Thursday morning. I started my day at work and found out that I was tasked with running a test upgrade to ...
So, what's up? In case you don't know, my co-worker Gleb Otochkin has written a couple of blog entries about HugePages' ...
This log buffer edition covers Cloud, Oracle and MySQL.
This log buffer edition covers Cloud, Oracle and MySQL.
Importance A time long ago, I wrote a SQL query to determine RMAN backup size. Here is another validation for the SQL ...

In this blog post I will do a quick guide, with some code examples, on how to deploy a Kubernetes Job programmatically, ...
Google Cloud instances run on top of the KVM hypervisor. In newer KVM versions, such as the one used in Google Cloud, ...
The short question While preparing a presentation I am giving this year about HugePages, a colleague of mine at Pythian ...
Challenges Working with a secure environment presents some challenges and this post will demonstrate how to overcome ...