How to get an Oracle 21c Database on the Oracle Cloud
A few hours ago Oracle published a blog post about the new version Oracle 21c. See Introducing Oracle Database 21c. It is again an innovation release with a couple of interesting new features and enhancements. The online Oracle Documentation library does provide a few information…
Presentation on DOAG 2020 CONFERENCE + EXHIBITION
DOAG CONFERENCE + EXHIBITION not at NCC east and without Mercator lounge is quite strange. But also this year there were some interesting conversations and presentations. Here are the slides of my presentation: AWS RDS Oracle – What is missing for a fully managed service?
Oracle Security EUS Snippets – Setup Proxy User Privileges
Since I’m always short of time for a longer blog post, I’ll just try a short one. Intended as a mini-series, I will show different configuration examples for Oracle Enterprise User Security. Today I’ll start with the configuration of EUS based proxy privileges. The environment…
Digital Brown Bag Event: Database Sizing in AWS Cloud with TVD-Capman at AutoScout24
Last Thursday We held the Digital Brown Bag Event: Database Sizing in AWS Cloud with TVD-CapmanTM at AutoScout24. Thanks to all participants and our Marketing department for the organization. We talked about the Migration to the AWS Cloud is a big step for any business. But…
Data Guard, Easy Connect and the Observer for multiple configurations
EZConnect One of the challenges of automation in bin Oracle Environments is dealing with tnsnames.ora files. These files might grow big and are sometimes hard to distribute/maintain properly. The worst is when manual modifications are needed: manual operations, if not made carefully, can screw up…
Script to check Data Guard status from SQL
In a previous blog post I have explained how to get the basic configuration from x$drc and display something like: OBJECT_ID DATABASE INTENDED_STATE CONNECT_STRING ENABLED ROLE RECEIVE_FROM SHIP_TO FSFOVALIDITY STATUS ——— ————– —————– —————————- ——- ——– ———— ————– ———— ——- 16842752 toolcdb1_site1 READ-WRITE-XPTON newbox01:1521/TOOLCDB1_SITE1 YES…
Real-Time Cascade Standby Container Databases without Oracle Managed Files
OK, the title might not be the best… I just would like to add more detail to content you can already find in other blogs (E.g. this nice one from Philippe Fierens http://pfierens.blogspot.com/2020/04/19c-data-guard-series-part-iii-adding.html). I have this Cascade Standby configuration: DGMGRL> connect / Connected to „TOOLCDB1_SITE1″…
How to get the Data Guard broker configuration from a SQL query?
Everybody knows that you can get the Data Guard configuration in dgmgrl with the command: show configuration; but few know that this information is actually available in x$drc: SQL> desc x$drc Name Null? Type ————— ——– ————— ADDR RAW(8) INDX NUMBER INST_ID NUMBER CON_ID NUMBER…
Awk to format the files .ora (listener.ora, tnsnames.ora, etc)
Tired of formatting the tnsnames.ora to make it more readable, I have taken the nice awk examples from Jeremy Schneider: https://ardentperf.com/2008/11/28/parsing-listenerora-with-awk-and-sed/ and created a function to format all files .ora (lisp-like config files). Example, before: $ cat tnsnames.ora LUDOCDB1_SITE2 = (DESCRIPTION = (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL…
Kerberos Troubleshooting – A few approaches
It is way too long ago since my last blog post. These were or are busy weeks for me. Any way, I finally found some time to start writing a blog post about a special setup for kerberos authentication of Oracle databases. It is about…
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