Oracle AI Data Platform (AIDP): No-Nonsense Platform Overview
Oracle’s AI Data Platform (AIDP) is essentially an attempt to fix the biggest annoyance ...
I decided to write this blog post after reading some comments on my older posts and several online discussions where ...
Context Now that we're well into 2017, let's sit back and ask the question: "What was the best news of 2016 in the ...
The following is the step-by-step process of Flashback of RAC database to a Restore Point. 1) Set the environment to ...
Quick links to Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5 / Part 6 6: Timing Now that we know how to patch every ...
You have seen me rant about Oracle's provided virtual hostname solution before. If you have not, check it out here. In ...
Several days ago I was asked a question about SharePlex and should verify behaviour before providing the answer. I had ...
Background When it comes to performing quarterly patches to the Oracle database the options used to be pretty straight ...
Background The other day I was doing an import using impdp in 12.1.0.2, and received the following error:'ORA-30926: ...
At the KSCOPE16 conference in Chicago I recorded a two minute tech-tip with Bob Rhubart of OTN about adding services to ...
Introduction: Parallel execution in Oracle seems to be a topic of myths, mysteries and misunderstandings. In this post ...
Database version = 11.2.0.3.0 If you get following error while adding a Standby Redo Log (SRL) to a standby database in ...
We use the terms DDL and DML in our DBA life with Oracle all the time. The first stands for Data Definition Language ...
Defining the Gold Standard: Average Active Sessions (AAS) Traditional methods would include looking at CPU, load and ...
The first time I was asked to rename a diskgroup, I thought that it would be a trivial operation, but what should be an ...
Recently, a co-worker encountered a significant performance hurdle after a database upgrade. The plan included ...
OEM 13c came out with a good new feature as a corrective action to add space to tablespaces. It could be done in OEM ...
I published a blog post called " Investigating IO Performance on Amazon RDS for Oracle" recently, and soon after ...
I recently had an issue involving a damaged ASM disk group. Each time an attempt was made to mount the disk group it ...
There are different options for backing up Oracle databases to Cloud, but using Oracle Secure Backup module to take ...
As an Oracle DBA, one of our daily tasks is to optimize bad SQL statements that are affecting the system and causing ...
Benefits of ASMDU A while ago, I posted a better "du" for asmcmd . Since then, Oracle 12cR2 beta has been released but ...

Valeriy Kravchuk's great recent post on using oprofile to profile MySQL mentioned how pt-stalk, the script from Percona ...
A while ago I created a Bash script called getMOSPatch.sh. Its purpose was to allow downloading Oracle patches directly ...
Now that all the prerequisites have been performed in Part 1, we can now jump in the Exadata installation procedure ...
I've recently been involved in quite a few database migrations to Oracle RDS. One thing that I had noticed when dealing ...
This is the next post in my series about Oracle GoldenGate Big Data adapters.

Expanding the Toolkit: The MongoDB Adapter In the other posts in the series I reviewed four standard handlers provided ...
When you buy an Exadata machine, you can ask Oracle to proceed with the installation or let some brilliant DBAs like ...