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I always like to know what is installed in the servers that I need to use for databases or Weblogic…
When starting to use sqlplus 12.2 I noticed that my SQL prompt was not changing to what login.sql told it…
While I prefer a “loosely coupled architecture” for replication between Oracle and SQL Server, sometimes a direct (database) link cannot…
At a recent customer install, I was faced with configuring Oracle Traffic Director (OTD) 12.2.1.2.0 Webgate with Oracle Access Manager.…
Recently, while migrating AIX 11gR2 Databases to Oracle Linux 12cR1 on an ODA X5-2, our setup of Sequence Replication by…
So here it is Oracle announces a license audit, some urgency kicks in and this familiar but also really serious…
If you are anything like me you will have multiple virtualboxes running on your system. Sometimes you might want to…
This is how I dump data from an Oracle Database (tested on 8i,9i,10g,11g,12c) to a delimited ascii file: Next to…
Oracle dbms_datapump provides a parallel option for exports and imports, but some objects cannot be processed in this mode. In…
THREADED_EXECUTION Threaded_Execution is an Oracle Database 12c feature aiming to reduce the number of Oracle processes on LINUX. After setting…
Creating or modifying an Oracle Database user password can be done by using any standard password generator you can find…
Recently (October 2016) I had the opportunity to attend an Oracle Compute Cloud workshop that was very interesting. As a…
Building up a public cloud is quite a challenge. Oracle has faced and overcome many challenges – and it has…
Apache Spark made numerous appearances in many different sessions during Oracle OpenWorld 2016. It is clear that Oracle is very…
Topic of this blog is a nice new feature in 12c, not the plsql package I built that’s using it.…
Maarten wrote a post on Virtual Columns in the oracle database. I read a blogpost on preventing people issuing SELECT…
Some time ago I was asked to assist in fixing or at least finding the cause of a performance problem.…
In my previous post Network considerations on an ODA X5-2 I described a solution where I created a private network…
When you buy an Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) X5-2 off the shelve, you will get a machine with four times…