12c Release 1

Creating a RAC 12.1 Data Guard Physical Standby environment (4)

In the previous three parts of this series a lot of preparation work, needed for the…
Creating a RAC 12.1 Data Guard Physical Standby environment (3)

In the previous two parts of this series you read about my lab environment and the…
Creating a RAC 12.1 Data Guard Physical Standby environment (2)

In the first part of this mini-series you saw me define the environment as well as…
Creating a RAC 12.1 Data Guard Physical Standby environment (1)

I have just realised that the number of posts about RAC 12c Release 1 on this…
GTT and Smart Scan – the importance of the append hint

While writing the previous two posts about GTTs and Smart Scan, I stumbled across an interesting…
Smart Scanning GTTs – what about Flash Cache?

Continuing the example of the previous blog post (is it possible to Smart Scan GTTs?), I…
Little things worth knowing: Can I Smart Scan a Global Temporary Table?

A question that has come up while preparing to deliver another Exadata Optimisation Class is whether…
Building an RPM for the Oracle database on Oracle Linux 7

Thinking about automation a lot, especially in the context of cloud computing, I have decided to…
Little things worth knowing: when a transient ASM disk failure cannot be fixed in time

In the previous blog post I used libvirt and KVM in my lab environment to simulate…
Little things worth knowing: transient ASM disk failures in 12c

For quite some time we have been treated nicely by ASM when it comes to transient…