Category: Oracle

Apr 10

Slow Migration To Cloud

Raise your hand if you’ve heard something like this before from a cloud vendor: By insert_year, we expect that insert_very_high_percentage of IT needs will be run in the cloud. We surely have Mark Hurd making the claim at OpenWorld 2015 that by 2025, 80% of all production apps will be in the cloud. Or Oracle …

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Mar 16

Book Review Oracle Database Upgrade and Migration Methods: Including Oracle 12c Release 2

I had the good fortune to review a new Apress book. Oracle Database Upgrade and Migration Methods: Including Oracle 12c Release 2 I was grateful to be asked to be the Technical Reviewer for this book. I like to think I made some contribution to the content there-in.  🙂  But to be honest, all the …

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Mar 07

GI 12.2 Changes

Oracle 12.2.0.1 was recently released for on-premises deployments and with it comes the new Grid Infrastructure version. There are a few changes worthy of note in this new version. The OUI is now launched with gridSetup.sh not runInstaller.sh as we are more familiar with. The GI Management Repository (GIMR) database can now be off-cluster if …

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Mar 01

Christmas Comes Early (Oracle 12.2)

Christmas must be coming early! We were previously informed that Oracle 12.2 would be released on March 15, 2017, but you can get it today for Linux and Solaris platforms. Simply go to http://otn.oracle.com and download the new version today. No longer is 12.2 “cloud only”.   Sadly, My Oracle Support is not up-to-date with …

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Feb 23

Oracle RAC on Third-Party Clouds

Yesterday, I came across this white paper from Oracle Corp about Oracle RAC Support on Third-Party Clouds. The paper is definitely a must-read for those who want to run Oracle RAC on AWS, Google or Azure cloud providers. The first paragraph was promising where it stated: Oracle also maintains an open policy for Third-Party Cloud …

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Jan 27

Free ES for 11.2.0.4 and 12.2 Release Date

The free Extended Support period for Oracle 11.2.04 has been extended for the second time. Oracle will now offer Extended Support for free to its customers with a current maintenance agreement up until Dec 31, 2018. This is almost a full two years away. Those running on Oracle 11.2.0.4 can breath a sigh of relieft …

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Jan 03

Database Upgrades – Flu Shots or Flu?

The new year is upon us and people are starting to ramp up their IT projects for 2017. Is a database upgrade on  your list of projects? Unless you’re running Oracle 12.1.0.2 across the board in  your data center, it should be! I was answering some Oracle upgrade questions today when it occurred to me …

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Nov 30

verify_queryable_inventory returned ORA-20008: Timed out

I have one system that always receives the same error when I apply the PSU. When the PSU is being applied, the execution of datapatch fails. I get the following on my screen:   Queryable inventory could not determine the current opatch status. Execute ‘select dbms_sqlpatch.verify_queryable_inventory from dual’ and/or check the invocation log /u01/app/oracle/cfgtoollogs/sqlpatch/sqlpatch_25889_2016_11_09_22_26_12/ sqlpatch_invocation.log …

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Nov 28

Oracle Ace Changes

The Oracle Ace Program is changing the way members have to report their activities. Oracle Aces (which I’m using to generically refer to Aces Associates, Aces, and Ace Directors) have long known that they need to keep contributing to the Oracle community at large. Aces regularly have to let the program know of their outreach …

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Oct 19

Slash or No Slash?

That is the question.   A recent post on the OTN forums asked about using semicolons and slashes as statement terminators. I dusted off an article I wrote for our development team over 4 years ago on this topic. This article received good reviews and is available on the OTN forums if desired. I thought …

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