I finally finalized new subscription and mail updates from GotoDBA website. If you’d like to get updates, these are your options: You can enter your email on the right under
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For some reason DBAs contact me (mainly on LinkedIn) and ask about moving to Canada: how to move, how to look for a job, how the tech industry is, etc.This
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Oracle Data Guard consists of many components. In this post I’ll explain about an environment that helped me understand how all the components work. This is a 12.1.0.2 (with APR
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When I moved to Canada I was already an Oracle ACE and had been involved with Oracle User Groups (I was on the board of ilOUG and had spoken at
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I upgraded a test database not too long ago to 18.6 (to do proper testing before we start upgrading productions) and got a feedback from dev that one of the
Moving My Blog (Finally)Moving My Blog (Finally)
I’ve been wanting to do this for a long time, but you know how it is, you never find time for these things. So a few weeks ago I decided,
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I’ve known this for a while but never wrote about it. In KScope19 I attended a session by Alex Nuijten and during the session he asked a question about LIKE
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This year I attended my second KScope ever. My first one was 2 years ago in San Antonio (I wrote about it here) and I missed last year’s one. In
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It seems like there are not many Oracle Restart environments (or there are but Oracle doesn’t pay too much attention to them). Otherwise, I can’t explain why I couldn’t find
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I’ve worked with OEM in the past, but these days I’m working with it much more than before. I have a client who uses it as their main monitoring system,