What’s ODABR snapshot & how to efficiently use it to patch ODA from 18 to 19.x

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Intro Although most of the focus, nowadays, has shifted to migration of on-premises workloads into the Cloud, companies still leverage Oracle databases engineered systems like Oracle database appliance to run their databases on-prem. As a matter of fact ,ODA is a low entry pricing and flexible CPU licensing platform that can still host workloads that …

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ExaC@C DB state failed in OCI console while up & running in reality (fix)

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Intro Exadata Cloud@Customer has the particularity of bringing the best of both worlds, where on-premises Data sovereignty meets the innovation & capabilities of the Cloud. Thanks to Control plane network that links up both ExaCC servers and OCI, users can create/manage resources through the Console or any API based cloud tooling (terraform,OCI-CLI, SDK..). Everything you …

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Top picks for Cloud Native & DB sessions at Oracle Cloud World ’22

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  Blabla free post: This is just some of my (personal) top Oracle sessions I will have the chance to attend Next Week. Some of you may agree that there is no way to make a list that fits everyone but for those who are into OCI and database migrations/upgrades this list might help, especially …

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ZDM troubleshooting part 3: Migration failing at ZDM_SWITCHOVER_SRC/ hack

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Intro This is the last of my troubleshooting series related to ZDM where I have accidentally become an unofficial QA tester for ZDM :). After describing scenarios in previous posts where ZDM service was crashing or DG configuration was failing. I will, in this article, explain why my broker switchover step failed the online physical …

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ZDM troubleshooting part 2: Migration failing at ZDM_CONFIGURE_DG_SRC

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Intro I didn’t anticipate to have a series of posts around ZDM, but I had few issues that were worth sharing so here I am. This post will describe what caused a failure of an online physical migration ExaCC right at the Data guard configuration phase. The good thing about ZDM, is as soon as …

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