Oracle

Making some more sense of direct path reads during primary key lookups

After having published my first article of 2019 I have received feedback I felt like including.…
Making sense of direct path reads during primary key lookups

I recently made an interesting observation while monitoring database performance on an Oracle Enterprise Edition system.…
Little things worth knowing: parallel Data Pump export in table mode

I haven’t used Data Pump in a little while but recently needed to do a bit…
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…
Using colplot to visualise performance data

Back in 2011 I wrote a blog post about colplot but at that time focused on…
Creating a RAC 12.1 Data Guard Physical Standby environment (3b)

Huh, what is this I hear you ask? Part 3b? Oracle 12.1? Well, there’s a bit…
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…
OSWatcher, Tracefile Analyzer, and Oracle RAC 12.2

When I started the series about Tracefile Analyzer (TFA) I promised three parts. One for single…