Category: Oracle 12

When checking the status of the backups of the databases on a baremetal ODA (X8-2-HA) we noticed an error in the RMAN logfiles: This ODA was recently patched to …

or Publishing a cleanup script for Oracle 12c+ At the moment I’m just for fun collecting Linux scripts from my direct colleagues. And while I was busy to think …

  preparation for migrating data to Oracle Virtual Private Database Introduction Recently I was part of a team involved in the preparation of migration data belonging to multiple business …

My customer needed to migrate to a new set of datacenters, and while other services were able to “lift and shift”, the Oracle RAC database servers had to be …

Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c provides a wizard to convert a single-instance database to an Oracle RAC database. This requires the Oracle Database Lifecycle Management Pack for Enterprise …

Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c provides the Add Standby Database wizard to create a broker configuration that includes a primary database and one or more standby database. This …

In the last nine month we were busy migrating our 11g databases to 12c rel. 2. Due to time constrictions we decided early in the project to migrate 1:1. …

A couple of moths ago, Enterprise Modules announced the easy to start way of making use their Oracle modules, ora_profile. Recently their modules have been updated to support the …

Some time ago I published an article about creating a RMAN backup using Commvault. See: https://technology.amis.nl/2018/03/01/creating-rman-backups-using-commvault/ . In this article I describe how to execute a crash recovery using Commvault. …

In my job as system administrator/DBA/integrator I was challenged to implement smoketesting using REST calls. Implementing REST in combination with WebLogic is pretty easy. But then we wanted to …

We are in the process of upgrading our Oracle Clusters and SIHA/Restart systems to Oracle 12.2.0.1 The upgrade of the Grid-Infra home on a Oracle SIHA/Restart system from 11.2.0.4 …

One of the benefits of using Docker is quick and easy provisioning. I wanted to find out first-hand if this could help me get an Oracle Enterprise Edition database …

R uses data extensively. Data often resides in a database. In this blog I will describe installing and using dplyr, dbplyr and ROracle on Windows 10 to access data …

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 …

ODA X5-2 simplifies and speeds up the creation of a 12c database quite considerably with oakcli. You can take advantage of this command by also using it in the …

When starting to use sqlplus 12.2 I noticed that my SQL prompt was not changing to what login.sql told it to be. This did not happen in sqlplus 12.1 …

While I prefer a “loosely coupled architecture” for replication between Oracle and SQL Server, sometimes a direct (database) link cannot be avoided. By using DBMS_HS_PASSTHROUGH for data extraction the …

Recently, while migrating AIX 11gR2 Databases to Oracle Linux 12cR1 on an ODA X5-2, our setup of Sequence Replication by Oracle Golden Gate appeared to be faulty. The target …

So here it is Oracle announces a license audit, some urgency kicks in and this familiar but also really serious question comes down from management: “Are we using any …

This is how I dump data from an Oracle Database (tested on 8i,9i,10g,11g,12c) to a delimited ascii file: Next to the query and the generated filename the Dump_Delimited function …

Oracle dbms_datapump provides a parallel option for exports and imports, but some objects cannot be processed in this mode. In a migration project from AIX 11gR2 to ODA X5-2 …

THREADED_EXECUTION Threaded_Execution is an Oracle Database 12c feature aiming to reduce the number of Oracle processes on LINUX. After setting parameter THREADED_EXECUTION on TRUE and a database bounce, most …

Creating or modifying an Oracle Database user password can be done by using any standard password generator you can find on the WEB. But I wanted a password to …

Oracle Database Release 12c (12.1) introduced a new operator that we can use in SQL queries. The MATCH_RECOGNIZE operator allows us to detect patterns in our relational data. Specifically: …

Bryn Llewellyn (Distinguished Product Manager, Database Division, Oracle) presented at OOW2016 on new features in PL/SQL in Oracle Database 12cR2. One of the features that stood out was a …

One of those things SQL developers are frequently looking at is the generation of rows: having a query return records that do not really exist. For example to generate …

A brief headsup for everyone responsible for maintaining kernel options in the oracle executable. The environment where I discovered this is a 3 node racattack cluster with Oracle GI …

Topic of this blog is a nice new feature in 12c, not the plsql package I built that’s using it. So here’s the story.. For one of our customers …

Maarten wrote a post on Virtual Columns in the oracle database. I read a blogpost on preventing people issuing SELECT * on a table. This was done in a …

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 …

Heard about it at Oracle OpenWorld 2015: A new feature in Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c is the possibility to incorporate ORAchk, the healthcheck tool for databases, RAC and Engineered …

Thanks to colleague Patrick Roozen I learned that there’s a tiny little flaw in Oracle databases 12c patch procedures when using DBUA (upgrade) and DBCA (create custom database) when …

Time has always been an important dimension for data in any database with topics like when was data created, when are records valid, how did records evolve over time, …

Suppose your organization wants to enforce a security policy on database password strength. The DBA’s have implemented a password strength verification function in PLSQL such as the oracle supplied …

Wouldn’t be nice to get regularly informed how (in)compliant you are with Oracle licenses in an easy – centralized – way, and therefore not have to worry about visits …

Deleting some rows or tens of millions of rows from an Oracle database should be treated in a completely different fashion. Though the delete itself is technically the same, …

Question: We have customers who want to work with different database schemas and we want to determine dynamically – depending on a choice during or after login – which …

The application and usage of the Oracle Database In-Memory has been described by Pom Bleeksma in this post. Oracle Database In-Memory can result in huge improvement in application query …

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 …

NOTE: even though the steps described in this article all work – I am running into a problem with shutting down and starting up the VM again. So at …