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ExaCC: PDB in restricted mode and bind parameter error when applying RU SQL patch

A couple of weeks ago, I was helping out a teammate with a post-patch issue on the ExaCC. The problem was that after applying the 19.12 RU to the DB ORACLE_HOME, the PDBs were..

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Extend your local NFS to Oracle Cloud using Storage Gateway with Cloud Sync

One of the biggest challenges every sysadmin (system administrator) faces during cloud migration is transferring a large set of on-premises data to the cloud. If it is done..

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Cloud Recap – My Terraform Labs in 2021

Intro The first time I had seen a glimpse of this Infrastructure as a CodeArtifact in 2018 (presented by Roopesh Ramklass at our TOUG meetup), I found it ugly as hell and swore to..

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The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform Application Services Comparison

Introduction The common trend for cloud providers is to compare their services/offers with AWS (Amazon Web Services – even AWS itself does it when releasing new features). But it..

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RMAN, Incarnations, and ME Part II: Recovery ignoring backups / ORA-19563: Datafile copy header validation failed for file

Introduction In an ideal world, I believe, every backup script should be matched by 2 recovery scenarios. As this swiss OUC figure reminds us, having a backup that works means..

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RMAN, Incarnation, and ME Part I: “ORA-19906”: Recovery target incarnation changed during recovery

Intro If there is something I honestly always struggled with as a DBA, it’s the RMAN incarnation. Both are mystical like its name suggests and vital, ensuring absolute consistency..

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How to run Data Pump from a Pluggable Database as SYS when ORACLE_PDB_SID can’t work

In Oracle multitenant architecture, the default database container upon connection is CDB$ROOT. But as of 18c, a new environment variable appeared to ease the direct access to a..

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Terraform for Dummies Part 5: Terraform Deployment On-Premises (KVM)

Introduction For a long time, Terraform was associated with deploying resources in the cloud. But what many people don’t know is that Terraform already had private and..

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Get your Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) 21c up and running in Docker – The easy Way!

In April 2017, Oracle announced supporting 12c Databases running in docker containers. However, this was limited to database deployment on Dev and Testing environments. But the..

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