Oracle AI Data Platform (AIDP): No-Nonsense Platform Overview
Oracle’s AI Data Platform (AIDP) is essentially an attempt to fix the biggest annoyance ...

As many of you know a cloning is one of the most DBA time consuming operations. For the first few times an Apps DBA may ...
It's one of those hints that you've heard about many times, but all the information is scattered, and finding what you ...

Upgrading to 11g Release Grid Infrastructure? You probably want to read on...
While features like Smart Scan often steal the spotlight in Exadata discussions, Storage Indexes are a silent ...
Introduction The AQ notification process has changed from release 10gR2 to 11gR1. The most notable change is the switch ...
I just recently faced an issue regarding how to automate the Workflow Mailer override address for development and ...
Notice One of the questions in my webinar this week related to TPC benchmark results for Exadata. Kevin Closson blogged ...
This should have been the easiest task on my todo list: Install Oracle 10.2.0.3 EE standalone on a new Linux RHEL 5 ...
I have successfully compiled and installed DBD::Oracle on Windows 2008 Server 64bit operating system today. I used the ...
Working as a DBA often means facing high-pressure situations, especially during an on-call weekend. Recently, I was ...
Background It is not unusual that a DBA needs to run the same query across multiple instances. The query can be ...
Strategy for a Minimal Downtime Migration I recently performed a migration from Oracle 10gR2 on Solaris to the same ...
I want to introduce several post about Oracle GoldenGate (GG), a relatively new replication software from Oracle. We ...
Introduction There is a new tool came with Oracle 11g Rel.2 that helps to modify options in installed oracle home ...
Recently, a customer request came in to limit the runtime of a query in a 10g database for a certain user. But since ...
Introduction The process for applying a patch on top of the CRS, or now called, the Grid Infrastructure, has changed ...
Recently, I tested a switchover on Oracle 11g SE1. As you know, Oracle Database Standard Edition One—as well as ...
Having recently performed a test upgrade for a client from Oracle RDBMS 10g to 11g, I can tell you that one of the big ...
Introduction In preparing my presentation for the Michigan Oak Table Symposium, I came across AWR extract and load. ...
Context One of the key features of Exadata V2 is the flash cache. Although commonly thought of as an OLTP-specific ...
I spent some time last month getting up to speed on MySQL. One of the nice perks of working at Pythian is the ability ...
Last Friday in the Sydney Oracle Meetup I talked about Oracle Flashback technology and how it helps to reduce downtime. ...
Background A few months ago, we had a test instance complaining that it couldn’t write to ASM. This was an 11.1.0.7 ...
I recently reformatted my laptop with the latest Ubuntu LTS release, 10.04, aka Lucid Lynx. Since I like to have a ...
Oracle Exadata V2 is a very well balanced database machine combined with smart and innovative software. One of these ...
This is the third post in the Oracle GoldenGate Extract Internals series (links to part I and part II). In this post, ...
Since GoldenGate has been declared as a strategic direction for replication technology by Oracle, it sounds like it’s ...
Argh! Of all the frustrating, partially-completed features Oracle has released, this is the most frustrating. Did I ...
After covering hardware components of Sun Oracle Database Machine in part 1, our grand tour continues with a look at ...