This is the third in a series of blog posts covering the most important topics you should know to completely monitor your IT infrastructure with Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c. The previous posts covered how to set up basic…

So, after an abnormally quiet weekend, I was being paged: Oracle Management Services (OMS) was down! Well, this requires monitoring the monitoring, right? So, how to monitor the monitoring? Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) 13c has a feature called Out of…

This is the second in a series of blog posts covering the most important topics you should know to completely monitor your IT infrastructure with Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c. In the previous post, Part 1, we covered how…

We often manage services over EC2, this is not news. But when migrating to Amazon RDS, it’s usual for new users to have issues with performing some administrative actions on the database, especially when it’s done via internal Oracle procedures…

This is the first in a series of blog posts covering the most important topics you should know to completely monitor your IT infrastructure with Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c.   Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) offers solid monitoring capabilities…

Are you manually (or via a script) killing idle sessions on your database? As a consequence, your users are getting error “ORA-00028: your session has been killed” and probably getting angry at you. What about doing it automatically, in a…

Microsoft Azure public cloud services support the same technologies millions of developers and IT professionals already rely on and trust. When we build on or migrate IT assets, public cloud service providers are relying on that organization’s abilities to protect…

Some time ago there was a car ad with the slogan “Don’t use it, abuse it”, meaning that no matter what you do to the car, it will continue working just fine. In other words, it was a resilient car….

Welcome to the December episode of our cloud update podcast. We are joined today by three industry experts who talk about the latest developments from the leading public cloud vendors: Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Service (AWS), and Microsoft…

When you have multiple database servers working together as nodes in a cluster, it’s beneficial to understand how data consistency is established. In this post, we’re going to take a look at the various cluster consistency levels that you can…