Intro In my previous blog post, I showcased how to automate the refresh of a PDB clone using a DBMS scheduler job which gives a better control on the frequency, instead of relying on the minutely refresh. Handy if you don’t like keeping an automatic refresh every X minutes and rather have it run once …
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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 …
Intro In Oracle multitenant architecture, default database container upon connection is CDB$ROOT. But as of 18c, a new environment variable appeared to ease the direct access to a specific PDB (given a defined ORACLE_SID). The variable in question is ORACLE_PDB_SID. As explained in Mike Dietrich’s Blog, this variable is checked by a small AFTER EVENT …
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