Martin Bach

Versioning for your local Vagrant boxes: adding a new box

I have been using Vagrant for quite some time now can’t tell you how much of…
Fresh install: Autonomous Health Framework for single instance Oracle 19c

I have been deploying Tracefile Anlyzer (TFA) to every system I’m looking after, whenever possible. Going…
OSWatcher as included in AHF 20.1.2 fails to start for single instance Oracle

I am about to update my posts detailing the use of Tracefile Analyzer (TFA) now that…
Creating a new disk group for use with ASM Filter Driver on the command line in Oracle 19c

In my previous post I shared my surprise when I learned that calling gridSetup.sh 19c for…
Silent installation: Oracle Restart 19c, ASM Filter Driver, RHCK edition

As promised in the earlier post here are my notes about installing Oracle Restart 19c on…
Oracle Restart 19c: silent installation and ASM Filter Driver

Oracle 19c is has been getting a lot of traction recently, and I have been researching…
Passing complex data types to Ansible on the command line

Earlier this year I wrote a post about passing JSON files as –extra-vars to ansible-playbook in…
Printing all table preferences affecting dbms_stats.gather_table_stats

Oracle 11g introduced the ability to control the behaviour of the dbms_stats package by setting preferences…
Ansible tips’n’tricks: defining –extra-vars as JSON

While I’m continuing to learn more about Ansible I noticed a nifty little thing I wanted…
Initialising PL/SQL associative arrays in 18c and later

I can never remember how to initialise PL/SQL associative arrays and thought I’d write a short…