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Comparing workloads across databases

Does this question sound familiar? “We are running the exact same workload in UAT as we…
Little things worth knowing: using Remote Diagnostic Agent more effectively with profiles

RDA, or the Remote Diagnostics Agent, has been around for a little while. Over the time,…
Preventing a SPOF with CMAN 12c

I have already written about the use of Connection Manager 11.2 to govern access to a…
Tales from the field: potential reasons for PDB plug-in violations part 2

In the first part of this little series I explained how a missing (default) tablespace in…
Tales from the field: potential reasons for PDB plug-in violations part 1

Container Databases have been an area that I have researched intensively over the past years. With…
Automatic Deployment of CDBs with non-default database options in 12.1.0.2

I have written about the importance of automation in previous posts, and this one is following…
Using OSWatcher for system diagnostics

OSWatcher is a superb tool that gathers information about your system in the background and stores…
Little things worth knowing: auto-DOP or hint-which one takes precedence?

This is just another short post about one of the little things worth knowing. Assume you are…
Experimenting with the ZFSSA’s snapshot capability using the simulator part 2

In my last post I wrote down some notes about my experience while experimenting with the…
Experimenting with the ZFSSA’s snapshot capability using the simulator

Recently I have been asked how the Copy-on-Write cloning works on the ZFS Storage Appliance. More…