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Enhanced “validate” commands in Oracle’s Data Guard Broker 18c

If you are using an Oracle Database Enterprise Edition chances are that there is at least…
Log in to Ubuntu VMs in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

When I learned that Oracle was providing Ubuntu images in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) I was…
Terraforming the Oracle Cloud: choosing and using an image family

For a few times now I have presented about “cloud deployments done the cloud way”, sharing…
Ansible tips’n’tricks: executing related tasks together

I have recently written an ansible playbook to apply one-off patches to an Oracle Home. While…
Using colplot to visualise performance data

Back in 2011 I wrote a blog post about colplot but at that time focused on…
Running orachk as part of TFA with support tools bundle

I have previously written a number of posts about OSWatcher integration in Tracefile Analyzer (TFA) w/support…
Little things worth knowing: OSWatcher Analyser Dashboard

I have written a few articles about Tracefile Analyzer (TFA) in the recent past. As you…
RAC One node databases are relocated by opatchauto in 12.2 part 2

In a previous post I shared how I found out that RAC One Node databases are…
RAC One node databases are relocated by opatchauto in 12.2 part 1

This is an interesting observation I wanted to share. I have a feeling as if there…
Little things worth knowing: Creating a RAC One Node database on the command line

This post is going to be super short, and mostly just a note to myself as…