Tag: exadata

Once you have installed your new Exadata machine will come a time where you’ll be asked : “shouldn’t we patch the Exadata” ? And the answer is “yes, definitely“.   Indeed, Oracle releases huges (~ 10 GB) “Quarterly Full Stack” patches (aka…

Fred Denis, Pythian Oracle Database Expert, continues his post on installing a brand new Exadata X5.

When you buy an Exadata machine, you can ask Oracle to proceed with the installation or let some brilliant DBAs like the one at Pythian to do it :) I will then present in this blog how to install a brand…

Fred Denis, Pythian Oracle Database Expert, explains how to rename a diskgroup.

Fred Denis, Pythian Oracle Database Expert, talks about his encounter with error code ORA-15418: on 12.1 on Exadata.

There are lots of considerations to be taken into account when migrating databases to the Exadata. It’s like any other migration. DBAs and other stakeholders of the system have to evaluate what to migrate and what not to, physical and…

Oracle recently announced its latest iteration of Exadata – X5-2. It includes a refresh of the hardware to the most recent Xeon® E5-2699 v3 CPUs. These new CPUs boost the total cores count in a full rack to 288. This…

Recently we’ve seen a strange problem with the deadlocks at the client database on Exadata, Oracle version 11.2.0.4 . Wait events analysis showed that sessions were waiting for “enq: TX – allocate ITL entry” event. It was strange because there…

OEM 12c Cloud Control looks daily for new targets, placing them in a queue for admin promotion to managed objects. Details and troubleshooting info follow.

In this post I provide a step-by-step guide outlining how to generate databasemachine.xml file to be used with OEM 12c.