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

This article is about working effectively with multiple OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) environments via OCI CLI ...

Background A common question from Oracle customers is whether they can configure the Oracle Database to use:
The other day I was doing a fresh install of Oracle 19.3. I ...
-->Background The other day I was doing a fresh install of Oracle 19.3. I was using the binaries from edelivery, doing ...
Introduction When working with Oracle RAC, it's strongly advised to use Jumbo Frames for the network that provides the ...
There are various ways that we can approach the analysis of a past database performance problem. The initial steps ...
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-->Troubleshooting TDE wallet failures after october 2018 patching Full disclosure: this is a post I've had in draft mode ...
This will be a short entry, but hopefully, it will help if you face the error "ORA-01722: ...
-->This will be a short entry, but hopefully, it will help if you face the error "ORA-01722: invalid number" while doing ...

Background First, let me offer a little explanation about the wait event "cursor: pin S." Oracle states: "A session ...

Introduction Editor’s Note: Because our bloggers have lots of useful tips, every now and then we update and bring ...
Sounds simple, right? And it really is, although it might not seem obvious. Recently, I ran into an issue when trying ...

Here we will see how the deployment process of the new Exadata X8M works.
I am going through a process of ...
-->Troubleshooting OCI automatic backups I am going through a process of patching an Oracle Grid Infrastructure (GI) from ...
A couple of weeks ago a client of mine had a situation where a Data Guard (DG) ...
-->A couple of weeks ago a client of mine had a situation where a Data Guard (DG) switchover that should have taken five ...

A brief background on RAM cache or in-memory OLTP acceleration In this post I will present a feature — to simplify ...
The other day I was doing a database cloning in 11.2.0.4 from an active duplicate, ...
-->The other day I was doing a database cloning in 11.2.0.4 from an active duplicate, and got the following error: ...
It’s one of those classic "Oracle knows best" moments, isn't it? You try to take back control of your own schema, and ...
Problem In a new 12c environment (which actually includes 18c and 19c, as per the 12c family), the datapatch failed on ...
As part of a recent project, I installed the Oracle Cloud command line utilities (oci) on the following Linux systems:
In this post I'll describe a problem which occurs when creating and using a database service name which starts with the ...
Comparing CreateGoldImage and Traditional Tar Cloning On October 31, 2019, I blogged about How To Use CreateGoldImage ...
Heart disease covers a range of different conditions that could affect your heart. It is one of the most complex ...
The other day I was given the task of converting a single instance Oracle ...
-->The other day I was given the task of converting a single instance Oracle Enterprise Manager Management Service (OMS) ...
With Oracle Data Guard promising high availability, data protection and disaster recovery for enterprise data, it's ...
Overview This post describes a recent outage during a routine Exadata (X7-2) patching to the 19.2.12.0.0.200317 release ...
Managing Oracle on AWS has some twists. Here are five daily DBA activities that have changed on AWS:
Does IPv6 formatting for JDBC and SQLPlus seem new to you well, it's been available since 11gR2. You're familiar with ...
Oracle 19c Data Guard introduced a very cool feature — you can now automatically ...
-->Oracle 19c Data Guard introduced a very cool feature — you can now automatically flashback your standby if you ...
This week I had the opportunity to patch Oracle Enterprise Manager (EM) 13c with ...
-->This week I had the opportunity to patch Oracle Enterprise Manager (EM) 13c with Release 4, Update 6: RU6 (13.4.0.6). I ...
Editor's Note: Because our bloggers have lots of useful tips, every now and then we update ...
-->Editor's Note: Because our bloggers have lots of useful tips, every now and then we update and bring forward a popular ...