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Re-Configuring Apex after host and DB SID change

There are certain instances when you will have to make changes to your Oracle APEX server due to organizational requirements or other factors.

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Terraform in OCI: The Infamous Error 404 – NotAuthorizedOrNotFound

Introduction Terraform uses API (Application Programming Interface) to interact with your Cloud Provider’s platform. Hence many error messages thrown by your Terraform deployment..

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Script your RMAN Backups using Oracle External Password Store with the SYSBACKUP Privilege

As you may already know, scripting your RMAN (Oracle Recovery Manager) backups and storing your connectivity credentials in the actual scripts is not a good security practice...

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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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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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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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ODA (Oracle Database Appliance) – Simulator: Part 1

ODA (Oracle Database Appliance) is an engineered machine designed for small and medium organizations to host their databases. This engineered machine enables to host databases..

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Oracle 19c PDB Remote Clone and Relocation using DBCA

The database world consolidation and managing resources play a key role. To ease the administration of databases and efficiently use the hardware resources, DBAs use the concept..

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