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

Background After setting up a DB System in the new “OCI Database with PostgreSQL” service, one of the things DBAs will ...

As organizations face an ever-increasing need for agility, they are constantly seeking ways to enhance their ...

Overview DBSAT is a great database security assessment tool available since 2016. Within that time, it has evolved to ...

Whenever I’m thinking of Oracle backup, I basically think of putting Oracle RMAN backup to a disk (simplified version) ...

If you have started familiarizing yourself with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Autonomous Database (ADB) service, ...

Background

Perhaps you have been approached by a client or manager and tasked with troubleshooting one or more slow-running SQL ...

A client was moving an Oracle 11.2.0.4 database from their data center to one of the major cloud providers' ...

This blog is a high-level overview of the fundamental Oracle feature UNDO tablespace and its space management. ...

When ChatGPT was first released, I wondered how it could support my day-to-day job. Initially, I used ChatGPT for ...

Introduction Since Adobe Flash became unavailable in most browsers, so did all the graphical tools of Oracle Enterprise ...

I recently applied the January 2023 released E-Business Suite Release 12.2 CPU patches following the release document ...

A new client was experiencing regular issues with its OA Core servers on its EBS 12.2 environment. The issue caused ...
I was speaking at the MOUS 2022 conference last week in Michigan, US, where I attended a session by Roy Swonger ...
Nowadays monitoring the IT environment is one of the most complex, and important, tasks in any corporation. OEM is a ...

Introduction While working on adding new targets in Oracle Enterprise Manager utility, I encountered an error: Target ...

The package DBMS_CLOUD was first introduced in the Autonomous Database to provide a simple way to interact with an ...

Introduction A client asked us to verify why an INSERT AS SELECT statement, which was part of a scheduled ETL job ...

Our mission at Pythian is to help you Love Your Data. Because security is a crucial part of managing your data, we are ...

Background Oracle has a documented process for using Oracle logical standby transient Database (TLS) to minimize ...

Oracle e-Business Suite administrators have access to pretty extensive documentation regarding Patching procedures. In ...

Organizations usually maintain Oracle licences for Oracle RDBMS Enterprise Edition on a per-core basis. It is possible ...

What do ShellShock, Log4J, and Oracle Java have in common? ShellShock and Log4J are similar in that they represent ...

Background Recently I was working on a client request where a CDB along with a subset of its PDBs had to be cloned to a ...

When you install WebLogic Server on the Windows platform, it might be a good idea to set it as a native Windows ...

One of our clients patched its EBS database 19.13 to DBRU 19.17 and faced an issue with one of the seeded programs. The ...

Introduction CockroachDB is a distributed SQL Database that has been gaining popularity in the last years because of ...

Background Not so long ago, I was faced with a request to collect information from several schemas located in multiple ...
Context LOVs (List Of Values) is a great feature of Oracle forms and is widely used. Sometimes you might run into an ...

Introduction How easy is it to install an Oracle Fusion Middleware product? Actually, it’s pretty straightforward. ...