The Grafana Plugins for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring are back!
In September 2019 I wrote a blog post how to monitor an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Autonomous database with Grafana plugin oci-datasource. But some weeks after publication, the plugin was not available on the Grafana page anymore. And only Oracle and Grafana had a clue why….
Script to check Data Guard status from SQL
In a previous blog post I have explained how to get the basic configuration from x$drc and display something like: OBJECT_ID DATABASE INTENDED_STATE CONNECT_STRING ENABLED ROLE RECEIVE_FROM SHIP_TO FSFOVALIDITY STATUS ——— ————– —————– —————————- ——- ——– ———— ————– ———— ——- 16842752 toolcdb1_site1 READ-WRITE-XPTON newbox01:1521/TOOLCDB1_SITE1 YES…
Script to check Data Guard status from SQL
In a previous blog post I have explained how to get the basic configuration from x$drc and display something like: OBJECT_ID DATABASE INTENDED_STATE CONNECT_STRING ENABLED ROLE RECEIVE_FROM SHIP_TO FSFOVALIDITY STATUS ——— ————– —————– —————————- ——- ——– ———— ————– ———— ——- 16842752 toolcdb1_site1 READ-WRITE-XPTON newbox01:1521/TOOLCDB1_SITE1 YES…
Real-Time Cascade Standby Container Databases without Oracle Managed Files
OK, the title might not be the best… I just would like to add more detail to content you can already find in other blogs (E.g. this nice one from Philippe Fierens http://pfierens.blogspot.com/2020/04/19c-data-guard-series-part-iii-adding.html). I have this Cascade Standby configuration: DGMGRL> connect / Connected to “TOOLCDB1_SITE1″…
Monitor your Oracle Cloud Free Tier with Grafana on Oracle Linux 8
In a previous blog post I wrote about monitoring Oracle Cloud Infrastructure components by Grafana. In the meantime, we got the Oracle Cloud Free Tier. Here is an updated version. This blog post shows you how to install and configure the Grafana plugin based on…
Oracle Database Backup Service – Encrypt your 12.2 Database Backups to the Cloud
The Oracle RMAN backup encryption is necessary if you want to backup your database into the Oracle cloud. In Oracle 12c, you have three methods available to encrypt an Oracle RMAN backup: with a passphrase with a master encryption key hybrid with a passphrase and…
Observations About the Scalability of Data Loads in ADWC
In the last days, I am running a number of tests based on the TPC-DS benchmark against Oracle’s Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud service (ADWC). One of the first thing I did is of course to create the TPC-DS schema and populate it. The aim of…
Which Privileges Are Required to Use the ADWC Service Console?
The Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud (ADWC) service provides a Service Console that can be used to monitor the service activity and to carry out a small number of administration tasks (e.g. changing some resource management rules). The documentation specifically says to use the ADMIN user…
DBMS_CLOUD Package – A Reference Guide
The Appendix A of the Using Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud guide describes the DBMS_CLOUD package. Unfortunately, it documents only a subset of the subroutines. And, for some of them, the description could also be enhanced. Therefore, while I was testing all the subroutines the…
Oracle 12.2 – New Features I like – Part 1: Multitenant “Hot Clones”
I like the Oracle Multitenant architecture which was introduced in 12.1. But the concept to clone a source database to multiple copies in a small step had one big problem. In Oracle 12.1, to clone a pluggable database the source database had to be in…