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Token-Based Authentication for ADB with IAM: Part 1

Oracle has introduced an authentication mechanism that enables Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) users to use their ...

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What is Oracle Data Safe and Why Should You Use It ?

Data Safe is an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) security service that provides a set of features to protect sensitive ...

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Tips for Better Capacity Planning on Exadata

Exadata X8-2 comes with up to 3 Petabytes (PB) of raw disk capacity. This post briefly explains the basics of capacity ...

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CVE-2022-21500 and Your Oracle E-Business Suite

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How to Add Data Visualization and Empower EBS Users With Enterprise Command Centers

In 2018, Oracle announced the release of Oracle Enterprise Command Centers (ECC) for E-Business Suite. This EBS add-on ...

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Part Six: Deploying High Availability Applications in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

This is the sixth in a series of blog posts, that covers the details to deploy the Oracle Management Servers for a high ...

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Unusual Use of the RMAN uncatalog Command

Handling RMAN mismatched status errors A fresh year is the perfect time to learn something new. Recently, I have come ...

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Installing Forms 12.2.1.4 – File not found $ORACLE_HOME/lib/libvsn12_ee.a.dbl using GUI

After installing Weblogic and Fusion Middleware (FMW) 12.2.0.4, I came across the following error when I tried to ...

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Token-Based Authentication for ADB with IAM: Part 2

In Part 1, we discussed the essentials of DB token-based authentication and looked at examples to set up authentication ...

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Moving Your Oracle Database to the Cloud? Why Google Cloud Could Be a Good Fit

Oracle has long been a top choice for relational databases, but migrating those workloads to the cloud usually requires ...

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ExaCC vs. ExaCS – Which One is Right for You?

Exadata has been Oracle’s gold standard platform for running mission-critical Oracle databases for over a decade. ...

Oracle

Fixing the Failed Status of imageinfo on Exadata Compute Node

Background I was conducting regular OS patching of all the Exadata components when one of compute nodes caused ...

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How to Create an Oracle SE2 Database and Avoid Licensing Problems

Avoiding licensing traps in oracle standard edition If you recently created an Oracle Standard Edition 2 database, you ...

Oracle

Round Trip Network Latency Tests for your Remote Database Service

If you are using a remote Oracle database service, such as Oracle’s Autonomous Transaction Processing database, or an ...

Oracle

Response File for GI Node Addition

Initially, I didn’t think that it would be difficult. But I feel the initial MOS note is inadequate for preparing a ...

Oracle

Big Savings on Oracle REDO Via Temp UNDO

Background When Oracle introduced version 12.1 of the RDBMS, an interesting new parameter was included: ...

Oracle

Exadata: Automating Compliance Checks

Introduction to Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) I wanted to share a brief summary–a cheat sheet–to highlight the ...

Oracle

Automating Scripts Via SSH

Have you ever logged on to a Linux machine, only to be greeted by a prompt requesting you make some choice? It’s ...

Oracle

Apex Interactive Report: A link column with a clickable icon

Apex Interactive Report In a couple of cases, we want to have a button (or an image) added to an IR column working with ...

Oracle

Slow Query in eBS AutoConfig with DB 19c

We recently completed a few e eBS R12.2 database upgrade installations and noticed an issue with a particular SQL ...

Oracle

After logon trigger in user schema and FRA full situation hang the database

This blog post is about a scenario where a combination of a logon trigger performing DML operations at user login time ...

Oracle

Easy Transition from Screen to tmux

Do you use Screen in Linux? If so, I’m sure you appreciate the importance of functionality it provides. At times, as ...

Oracle

Practical Tips For Moving Indexes Between Tablespaces

From time to time, a simple request to reorganize space in a tablespace leads to a more complex solution. Here’s how we ...

Oracle

ORA-19665: Size in File Header Does Not Match Actual File Size of String

I received the above message related to an ORA-7445 on my 11.2.0.4 database: ORA-07445: exception encountered: core ...

Oracle

How to Test and Verify that Oracle RDS Alert Log Monitoring is Working

One of the standard Oracle DBA tasks is to monitor the alert log for errors. Whether you’re using the integrated AWS ...

Oracle

Exadata Health Check: My Top 5 Tools and Features

From ORAchk/EXAchk/ODAchk, Database Security Assessment Tool (DBSAT) and Hang Manager, to Cluster Health Advisor (CHA), ...

Oracle

OCI Dashboard – A Single pane of Glass to your OCI Workloads – Part 1

OCI Dashboards is a free service that Oracle provides on its OCI platform. Using dashboards, you can get a high level ...

Oracle

Licensing Oracle Enterprise Manager

What are the licensing considerations for deploying Oracle Enterprise Manager and using OEM for monitoring database ...

Oracle

CVE-2021-44228 and Your Oracle E-Business Suite/Fusion Middleware Systems

For many of us, the recent log4j vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) became a severe headache this past weekend. I thought ...

Oracle

Using asmcmd to Find the spfile and Password from ASM

I’m currently reviewing an environment that has been upgraded to 19c based on information from oratab. The reason for ...

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Token-Based Authentication for ADB with IAM: Part 1

What is Oracle Data Safe and Why Should You Use It ?

Tips for Better Capacity Planning on Exadata

CVE-2022-21500 and Your Oracle E-Business Suite

How to Add Data Visualization and Empower EBS Users With Enterprise Command Centers

Part Six: Deploying High Availability Applications in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Unusual Use of the RMAN uncatalog Command

Installing Forms 12.2.1.4 – File not found $ORACLE_HOME/lib/libvsn12_ee.a.dbl using GUI

Token-Based Authentication for ADB with IAM: Part 2

Moving Your Oracle Database to the Cloud? Why Google Cloud Could Be a Good Fit

ExaCC vs. ExaCS – Which One is Right for You?

Fixing the Failed Status of imageinfo on Exadata Compute Node

How to Create an Oracle SE2 Database and Avoid Licensing Problems

Round Trip Network Latency Tests for your Remote Database Service

Response File for GI Node Addition

Big Savings on Oracle REDO Via Temp UNDO

Exadata: Automating Compliance Checks

Automating Scripts Via SSH

Apex Interactive Report: A link column with a clickable icon

Slow Query in eBS AutoConfig with DB 19c

After logon trigger in user schema and FRA full situation hang the database

Easy Transition from Screen to tmux

Practical Tips For Moving Indexes Between Tablespaces

ORA-19665: Size in File Header Does Not Match Actual File Size of String

How to Test and Verify that Oracle RDS Alert Log Monitoring is Working

Exadata Health Check: My Top 5 Tools and Features

OCI Dashboard – A Single pane of Glass to your OCI Workloads – Part 1

Licensing Oracle Enterprise Manager

CVE-2021-44228 and Your Oracle E-Business Suite/Fusion Middleware Systems

Using asmcmd to Find the spfile and Password from ASM

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