Author: Job Oprel

As you may well know, Advanced Compression is an option you have to pay for when using it. But as a DBA you can’t always control the use of …

Suppose the number of Oracle licenses you acquired in the past, is in line with the use. That is, you’re compliant with all the licensing rules Oracle come up …

For years the number of 0.7893 meant something to those who are working on regular basis with licenses in Europe. This number is the ‘Current local Pricing Exchange rate’. …

On 21 January 2015, Oracle announced Exadata X5, the sixth revision of Oracle’s database management system (DBMS) engineered system. The entire Exadata configuration no longer needs to be licensed …

Hereby a somewhat embarrasing story about a performance problem with an Oracle Warehouse Builder – database (11.2.0.3). Embarrasing, while it took too much time to figure out what was …

As you may know, the use of Oracle Locator is free of charge, while Spatial is an option in Oracle Enterprise Edition which have to be paid for. Spatial …

Oracle is eager to offer companies a ULA, an Unlimited License Agreement, especially at the end of the financial year. If these companies are considering an ULA, this company …

This post is intended to be a dummy guide, best practices, or whatever you call it…   about setting up a network while working with virtual boxes on a desk- …

To build an Oracle 12C RAC database – on Virtual Boxes – there’s at least shared storage needed for ASM, and a DNS-server for the SCAN-addresses. Several methods can …

Once in a while a company wants to know if her Oracle development- and test- environments needs to be licensed. And in a lot of cases this question simply …

A while ago I configured an encrypted column in a table for a customer in database 11g. To achieve this, a wallet had to be created outside the database. …