Author: Pom Bleeksma

Last week at our company we organized a session about NoSQL in general and MongoDB in particular, as you can read here. The MongoDB focus was presented by me …

For several years now, I’ve been a fan of backups controlled by Enterprise Manager (of Grid Control, or Cloud Control, call it what you want). It is relatively easy …

Oracle offers a fine machine called the X5-2. Not to be confused with the ODA X5-2, which comes with sophisticated database software. The X5-2 is just bare metal. The …

Some months ago I worked on a project where we thought it would be a good idea to use multiple guaranteed restore points to be able to navigate through …

An Oracle Enterprise Management Agent 12c that has to manage hundreds of objects needs extra tweaking. If not, it will not start, or it will die soon, leaving you …

Recently I found myself in the unique position of having access to the beta version of the Oracle Cloud to get a glimpse at the future as Oracle sees …

Have you ever wondered why it takes a century to completely refresh your materialized view? I did, so I did some testing. Recently I was asked to support a …

In August 2014 Oracle released its RDBM 12.1.0.2 with a potentially useful and exiting new option: Database InMemory. Upon reading about it it became clear to me that this …

Half a year ago, my colleague Remco wrote an article on auto starting the listener and the databases after a host reboot. As usual with Oracle, there are several …