As every year since 2016, we’re having the ODC Appreciation Day around October. If you don’t know what “ODC Appreciation Day” is, it is Tim Hall’s initiative to simply say
As every year since 2016, we’re having the ODC Appreciation Day around October. If you don’t know what “ODC Appreciation Day” is, it is Tim Hall’s initiative to simply say
One of my customers is a software company and they use Oracle database for their product. One of the things we need to do when they certify an Oracle version
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
I had a talk with a customer/colleague that got me thinking about a strange case of multitenant configuration. The chat was about an environment with two data centers and data
I’ve installed quite a few PSUs in my professional life, but this time, it was something else. I’m talking about a RAC environment with 2 nodes and a database containing
I did some testing with impdp for a client. They asked me to write a procedure to import a set of tables from a production environment to a testing database.
Lately I ran into a case of losing of a voting disk, so this lead me to create a GI environment on my laptop (using virtual box) and play with
I’ve written a few “diagnostics” posts in the past (you can see them all under the “Troubleshooting” category). People really like these type of posts, and I got many comments