12c Data Guard : Resolve Log gap Error: ORA-16724: “cannot resolve gap for one or more standby databases”

This error happened while my Lab standby server was unreachable for few days. Although my setup was built on top of a Windows environment, the resolution process stays the same here for fixing this error (using an RMAN incremental backup) . For more details about the Data Guard setup used in this example please refer …

Deploying Oracle RAC Database 12c Lab on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 with Virtual Box -racattack Repack

Introduction: This document provides a step-by-step deployment procedure with some of best practices to install and configure an Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) Database 12c Release 1 (12.1)* with Oracle ASM on Linux RedHat Entreprise 7 virtual machines (Virtualbox). Most of it is inspired by the RACAttack project  that was written collaboratively by many authors …