Tag: Oracle

    It’s no secret that many companies have been moving existing on-premises environments to the cloud. They all have different reasons and goals: Get rid of the old hardware fleet by moving Oracle Applications over to a modern cloud…

This is the sixth in a series of blog posts, that covers the details to deploy the Oracle Management Servers for a high available set up of Oracle Enterprise Manager 13.5 using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure‘s resources.   Recap This is…

For many of us, the recent log4j vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) became a severe headache this past weekend. I thought we’d publish a summary of some of our findings gathered so far. We’ll  keep it updated with news and details published by…

Exadata has been Oracle’s gold standard platform for running mission-critical Oracle databases for over a decade. Oracle is extending the availability of Exadata onto the cloud by offering it in two flavors: Exadata Cloud @ Customer (ExaCC) and Exadata Cloud…

Exadata X8-2 comes with up to 3 Petabytes (PB) of raw disk capacity. This post briefly explains the basics of capacity planning on Exadata.capacity planning on Exadata.     Why should you care about capacity planning when you’re already loaded…

Oracle Patching of Databases (DB) and Grid Infrastructure (GI) is a routine and recommended process for any Oracle database. It’s no different in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). In fact, OCI makes it even easier for DBAs to patch the required…

I ran across an interesting case within OEM 12 (Oracle Enterprise Manager) Release 5. A client reported the “tablespace allocation metric” was not being updated on OEM for a specific database. In this case, the most recent gathering was done…

Oracle Auto Service Request (ASR) is a secure, scalable, customer-installable software feature of warranty and Oracle Support Services that provides auto-case generation when common hardware component faults occur. I thought I’d share how we monitor the ASR manager process and…

This is the fifth in a series of blog posts that covers setting up the load balancer for a high available setup of Oracle Enterprise Manager 13.5 using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s resources.   Recap This is the fifth of a…

This is a blog post about an issue that can occur during a database upgrade and produces a misleading error message. If you’re already aware of it, the workaround is trivial. However, when it happened to me during the testing…