Author: Simon Pane

Background I recently experienced a problem when upgrading an old Oracle 10.2.0.4 database to 11.2.0.4 that had no matches in a My Oracle Support (MOS) or Google search. The problem presented itself initially when upgrading as the following error was…

Comparing Oracle Database Backup Service (ODBS) and Oracle Secure Backups (OSB) to Amazon Web Services (AWS) This is part 3 of a 3 part series on “Getting Started with Oracle Cloud Backups”. Part 1 covers setting up RMAN to backup…

Getting Started with Oracle Cloud Backups – Amazon Web Services (AWS) This is part 2 of a 3 part series on “Getting Started with Oracle Cloud Backups”. Part 1 covers setting up RMAN to backup directly to the new Oracle…

Getting Started with Oracle Cloud Backups – Oracle Cloud Database Backup Service (ODBS) This is part 1 of 3 in a series on “Getting Started with Oracle Cloud Backups”. Part 1 covers setting up RMAN to backup directly to the new…

Oracle 12c introduces new catalog features including CDB_ dictionary views (which include a CON_ID column) superseding the DBA_ views that most DBA sqlplus scripts are based upon. However, existing DBA sqlplus scripts can easily be modified using just a few…

Background I ran into a situation where we needed to recover from an old online backup which (due to some issues with the RMAN “KEEP” command) was missing the archived redo log backups/files needed to make the backup consistent.  The…

Background Oracle Database 12c brings us many new features including: the long needed ability to run OPatch and query the patch software installed in the Oracle Home programatically through SQL using the new DBMS_QOPATCH package. If you’re a DBA working…

Is SELECTing from a sequence your Oracle Performance Problem? The answer to that question is: it might be! You wouldn’t expect a sequence select to be a significant problem but recently we saw that it was—and in two different ways….

We recently received this inquiry from a client: “Can an Oracle database account support two passwords at once so we can roll out updated credentials to application servers gradually rather than having to change them all at the same time?…