Different software components (operating systems, databases, etc.) are updating our clocks automatically when our country changes the clock (when daylight saving starts or ends). In order to do that, the
Different software components (operating systems, databases, etc.) are updating our clocks automatically when our country changes the clock (when daylight saving starts or ends). In order to do that, the
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
This post is following a question I found on LinkedIn. A DBA pasted a strange test case in 11.2.0.4 and I managed to reproduce it in 12.1.0.2 (non-multitenant) and 12.2
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
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
This is a short note just to say I’m happy to have my first GitHub project.A few months ago I wrote a blog post and a python script (on gist)
Apparently, quite a few people ran into this situation before, so I got a few correct answers (some on Twitter, some on LinkedIn, and some as comments to the original