Intro The first time I had seen a glimpse of this Infrastructure as Code artifact in 2018 (presented by Roopesh Ramklass at our TOUG meetup), I found the it ugly as hell and sworn to never touch it (probably confused it with Json ;)). Today I am happy to admit that I was totally wrong …
Intro Common trend for cloud providers is to compare their services/offers with AWS (even AWS itself does it when releasing new features). But it seems that the top 3 reached a sort of agreement where they only acknowledge their respective direct competition & dismiss any player outside this oligopoly. Oracle Cloud or AliCloud being more …
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Intro In an ideal world, I believe, every backup script should be matched by 2 recovery scenarios. As this swiss OUC figure reminds us, having a backup that works means nothing without a tested restore and recovery. Today I’ll try to depict the don’t do’s after an recovery of a controlfile with open resetlogs using …
Intro If there is something I honestly always struggled with as a DBA, it’s RMAN incarnation. Both mystical like its name suggests and vital, ensuring absolute consistency of your database and backups. But deep down, you always know it’ll back fire one day out of the shadows. Because that’s where it hides, lurking until a …
Intro Beside Long term release benefits, upgrading to a multitenant 19c Database will allow to completely ease the way test environments are refreshed from production servers. Say Goodbye to complex & lengthy RMAN duplicate scripts and hello to remote cloning. Even better with refreshable clones, production data is now automatically updated. Many blogs were written …