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Learning about Kubernetes: JDBC database connectivity to an Oracle database

In the past few months I have spent some time trying to better understand Kubernetes and…
Ansible tips’n’tricks: provision multiple machines in parallel with Vagrant and Ansible

Vagrant is a great tool that I’m regularly using for building playground environments on my laptop.…
Using dbca to create a physical standby database

While investigating new options I discovered with dbca for the previous article I noticed that it’s…
dbca now makes it easy to configure OMF on file systems

Up until – and including – Oracle 12.1 I always found it not-quite-so-straight-forward to create a…
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…