When Oracle moved to the new Oracle database release model in 2018, some changes were introduced with it. I just realized that I haven’t blogged about it (even though I
When Oracle moved to the new Oracle database release model in 2018, some changes were introduced with it. I just realized that I haven’t blogged about it (even though I
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
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
Lately I started patching a client’s database (12.1.0.2) to the latest PSU (180417). This is a RAC environment with streams and all kind of other features, so over the time
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
I wrote in the past about my frustration with Oracle support. I also hear from customers and colleagues about their frustration with Oracle support, from different reasons. People like to
Oracle is using the same numbering scheme since I’ve started working with it (7.2). The 5 number scheme with the release number, patchset and PSU is quite confusing and the
If you remember, after the last OOW I was very impressed by the Oracle Support people I met there. They were very knowledgeable and willing to help and solve problems.
This might be one of the most important posts I have written lately for the community. I mean, I write mostly about interesting technical stuff (well, interesting for me anyway),