Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Release 4 – Time to Upgrade – First Experiences
The roll-out of the newest Oracle Enterprise Manager 13 Release 4 is a few days old, about time to try out the upgrade process in my ESXi lab environment. First: This blog post about the OEM upgrade process is based on my own experience. Software…
MV2ADB – One-Click Move of your Data into OCI Autonomous Databases – Auto Operation
In the previous blog post MV2ADB – One-Click Move of your Data into OCI Autonomous Databases – Step by Step I wrote about the new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure tool to transfer local data into Autonomous Databases step by step. There you see how to install…
OCI Database Backup Service Configuration – Avoid 401 Unauthorized Error
While I a preparing new exercises for an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure training, I ran into an issue while configuring the Oracle Database Backup Service for the Object Storage. The OCI backup module installer returns an error 401. My Environment Oracle Linux 7 Virtual Box Machine…
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 Appliance X6-L Memory Expansion – Overwritten HugePage Settings after Reboot
A Customer has extended his Oracle Database Appliance X6-L with Oracle Database Appliance Memory Expansion Kit from 192GB to 384GB. After the first startup, the odacli tool has recognized the additional available memory and gave us the suggested value for the new HugePage settings. The…
How to build OCI Infrastructure Environments with Ansible
The Oracle provided Ansible module gives us the opportunity to provision and configure Oracle Cloud Infrastructure resources on an automated base. The Ansible basic setup is very easy and the Oracle provided example playbooks in Git are a good base to start with your infrastructure…
Monitor your Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with Grafana on Oracle Linux 7
Since the end of February there is a new Grafana plugin for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure available. With this plugin we can access and monitor OCI metrics and data. Grafana is an open-source platform for data visualization and monitoring. This blog post shows you how to…
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…
Oracle Critical Patch Updates – etwas Statistik – das Juli-Update
Seit Januar 2018 veröffentliche in meinem Blog einige Statistiken und Grafiken zu den Critical Patch Updates von Oracle. Gestern hat Oracle die Juli-Patches veröffentlicht und so ist es Zeit für das Juli-Update Kritisch betrachtet sind diese Statistiken natürlich nutzlos. Die reinen Zahlen sagen nichts über…
Oracle Multitenant – SYS*-Privilegien für Pluggable Datenbanken
In einer Container-Datenbank können SYSDBA-, SYSOPER-Rechte etc. auf PDB-Ebene vergeben werden. Dies ermöglicht es, PDB-Administratoren mit ihren lokalen Rechten eine PDB zu öffnen oder zu schließen. Wie funktioniert das und wo werden diese Privilegien-Informationen gespeichert? English translation of this post Vergabe von SYS*-Rechten auf…
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