A few months ago we hit an Oracle bug related to streams replication crash after creating an index (bug 21320182). There is a patch so we installed the patch in
A few months ago we hit an Oracle bug related to streams replication crash after creating an index (bug 21320182). There is a patch so we installed the patch in
This week I worked on a messy patch. I have a RAC environment with 12.1.0.2 and an old PSU and all kind of one-off patches and I wanted to install
In our first BCOUG Tech Day conference, I presented my session “Look Inside the Locking Mechanism”. I presented this topics before a few times and prepared a few demos to
On April 27th (2018) we had our first BCOUG Tech Day conference! If you are reading this and you’re part of an OUG board, you know how stressful and how
If you read my post Restoring Standby Database, you know that one of the problems I had was that the new control file refused to open the database with resetlogs
Over the years I ran into all kind of weird and wonderful backup and restore scenarios. This case has challenged me for a while now and I finally had the
One of my clients is restoring their database backup to another server for some testing. They do it periodically so we can also verify that the backup is good (which
Even after years of working with something, you can always learn new stuff. Today I tried to create a standby database using the duplicate command. When you duplicate a database
I just came back from RMOUG Training Days conference. It was my first time in Colorado (and obviously my first RMOUG training day) and it was really great (I wrote
This year was the first time I attended (and spoke) at RMOUG Training Days. Last year I submitted a few sessions but they were rejected. This year I had the