After OOW19 I looked into using GI gold images to upgrade a few databases at a client’s site. The client has 11 data guard environments (and they both use ASM),
After OOW19 I looked into using GI gold images to upgrade a few databases at a client’s site. The client has 11 data guard environments (and they both use ASM),
In Oracle GI 18c, the OCR and Voting disks must be located on ASM. A certified NFS or 3rd party shared file system is not supported for these files (you
One of my client is on 12.1 and since the support for 12.1 has ended we started planning the upgrade of this database. During the research I did before the
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
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
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,
This is a short post about something I wrote a while ago. I wrote a monitoring tool (haven’t we all?) and wanted to add a capability to scan log files
I usually don’t work with the local version of EM. I haven’t used DB Console in 11g and below so much, and I used EM Express in 12c even less.
In an Oracle Data Guard configuration, the primary and standby databases can have different configurations. It’s very common to have a smaller server for the standby database (less CPUs, less
Oracle Open World was interesting like every year. This year, Oracle started talking about features that will probably be in Oracle 19c (which is the last 12.2 release). The rumor