12c Release 1

CloneDB in Oracle 12.1.0.2

I personally really like CloneDB, a way to thin-clone an Oracle database over NFS. This can…
Fixing a problem with the ASM spfile preventing RAC 12c from starting

This is a little note to myself on how to fix a corrupt spfile in clustered…
Little things worth knowing: Data Guard Broker Setup changes in 12c

One of the problems I have seen when deploying Data Guard for systems such as RAC…
JSON support in Exadata 12.1.2.1.0 and later

Some time ago Oracle announced that RDBMS 12.1.0.2 has built-in support for JSON processing. A little…
IO Resource Manager for Pluggable Databases in Exadata

Another interesting topic that goes over and above the CDB Resource Manager Plans I described earlier…
Testing 12c CDB Resource Plans and a little bit about OEM Express

Inspired by Sue Lee’s presentation at Enkitec’s E4 conference I decided to re-run my test suite…
Smart Scan enhancements in Oracle Exadata 12c-inline LOBs

As part of the 12c release of the database and cellos Oracle introduced the ability to…
Additional information on Oracle 12c big table caching

Teaching is on the things I like doing, and currently I am investigating the Oracle 12c…
Exadata Fast Data File Creation

This post is the result of some testing I performed on Exadata data file creation. You…
Little things worth knowing: Is there a penalty in establishing a connection to Oracle using the MAA connection string? Part 2

In the very lengthy previous post about the MAA connect string I wanted to explain the…