Author: Patrick Roozen

Since a few months I’ve been involved in working with git to save our Infrastructure as Code in GitHub. But I don’t want to have to type in my …

In this post I will explain how to create your own ACFS file system (on the command line) that you can use to (temporarily) store data. So you have …

In this sequel of part one I will show how you can upload your own (Oracle) Linux 7 image in the IAAS Cloud of Oracle. This post will use …

I always like to know what is installed in the servers that I need to use for databases or Weblogic installs. Whether it is in the Oracle Cloud or …

Recently (October 2016) I had the opportunity to attend an Oracle Compute Cloud workshop that was very interesting. As a side effect I got access to the Cloud for …

When you happen to have a customer that want’s to use Data Guard on Oracle RAC without a license for Active Data Guard then you might want to read this …

Recently I came across the situation where I knew for a fact that my sessions to the database were dead because I pulled the power plug out of my application …

In my recent post I already mentioned it a little bit: Integrating your manual Data Guard Broker configuration in OEM Cloud Control can become a sort of climbing a Mountain. …

The last few months I’ve been working with Oracle Data Guard, reading lots of manuals and (parts of) books, to make smart decisions and get a solid foundation. I consider …

Imagine this: You have consolidated you applications into one database (version 10gR2). You take a full backup every Tuesday and Thursday evening and an archivelog backup every few hours. …

Today was the first day of the two day Masterclass “Understanding Storage”  by James Morle at AMIS. After having reserved my participation in this Masterclass on March 12th, the …

I’ve been using RAC (10gR2) for years now and I was wondering how RAC One Node differs from RAC. That’s why I used a few ‘old’ RAC servers that …

A few years ago I was lucky to be able to start working for a client that has Oracle RAC clusters. There we encountered lot’s of interesting issues, and …

Recently I found myself in the situation that we had gotten an incident about some application that couldn’t print anymore to the printers it was printing before. This was …

Cary mentioned at the start of his presentation “Measure Once, Cut Twice” that he succeeded in one of the few goals for today: Getting up in time.

Just a short impression of a few sessions today, and the day isn’t even over… I’m really loving it being here and seeing all these people thinking and acting …

Hotsos 2008, first day of the symposium Today I had to make some difficult choices: There are too many presentation to see or just not enough me to go …

It was supposed to happen in 2007, but due to some private issues I never made it to Hotsos that year. I have been wanting to attend since several …