Our mission at Pythian is to help you Love Your Data. Because security is a crucial part of managing your data, we’re pleased to tell you about the identity management (IdM) solution we’ve developed to make it easier for Oracle…

Cost is a crucial part of selecting a cloud service provider. It’s important to understand the capabilities of different providers to maintain control of your costs. This blog post assumes the reader is familiar with OCI CLI (Command Line Interface)….

If your application uses Java 1.7 that connects to Oracle Database securely over TCPS (Transmission Control Protocol with SSL), and you keep your security patching up to date, the latest Oracle April 2021 security updates may raise some challenges for…

In this post I’ll address the situation where, after installing Fusion Middleware (FMW) 12.2.0.4, the WebLogic Admin Server won’t start due to an issue reported on Coherence, one of the embedded components of FMW (Forms/Service Bus/SOA Architecture). You will face…

This seems like a simple message to fix, right? The parameter is different between the broker configuration and the database parameters—it was most likely changed directly on the database after the DG (Data Guard) broker configuration was created or the…

In a previous post, I discussed that the APEXExport tool may be the best one to use when exporting APEX applications. You may also have experience using this tool. Today, I’d like to present some alternatives to the APEXExport tool….

I was performing a spot health check in a client environment, when I encountered this: [oracle@dbserver1 ~]$ crsctl query crs releaseversion Oracle High Availability Services release version on the local node is [12.1.0.2.0] [oracle@dbserver1 ~]$ crsctl query crs activeversion -f Oracle…

Editor’s note: This “post-mortem analysis” series consists of four posts in total. Make sure you also check out: Post-Mortem Analysis Tools: Systemstate Dump Post-Mortem Analysis Tools: ASH Dump Post-Mortem Analysis Tools: Hanganalyze Now, onto today’s post: Many DBAs have been…

Editor’s note: This “post-mortem analysis” series consists of four posts in total. Make sure you also check out: Post-Mortem Analysis Tools: Systemstate Dump Post-Mortem Analysis Tools: ASH Dump Post-Mortem Analysis Tools: Using Preliminary Connection (publishing Thursday, April 22) Now, onto…

Editor’s note: This “post-mortem analysis” series consists of four posts in total. Make sure you also check out: Post-Mortem Analysis Tools: Systemstate Dump Post-Mortem Analysis Tools: Hanganalyze Post-Mortem Analysis Tools: Using Preliminary Connection (publishing Thursday, April 22) Now, onto today’s…