1. Oracle ASM Filter Driver (AFD) Filtering and 5.15 UEK7 kernels Ron shares the background: “As a long time fan of the Oracle ASM Filer Driver, one of the major benefits for Oracle ASM Filter Driver (AFD) is AFD Filtering. AFD can ensure writes are only performed by trusted and…
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December Musings
1. Lock Control in Database Onur Ardahnli began with, “In today’s article, we will discuss checking for LOCKs in the database, which is one of the checks we perform when there is a problem in the database.” 2. Spring Cleaning This blog goes through two different scenarios and concludes with: “Wrangling…
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End of Summer Reading
1. Staging Tables in Oracle 23ai Dani Schnider begins this blog saying, “Browsing through the Oracle 23ai New Features Guide, I once again discovered a small, inconspicuous feature that I had previously overlooked: There is a new option to create stage tables. What is the advantage of this enhancement?” 2. Separating…
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Some Summer Reading
1. Installing Xfce on Oracle Linux 9 Martin Bach shares, “This post explains how to install Xfce on Oracle Linux 9.4 x86-64 using the EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) repository. I’m fairly sure the same applies to ARM64 as well, but I didn’t have time to test. The article is based on…
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The Best of May
1. Compatibility Issues David Fitzjarrell begins with: “Oracle can be set to use a broad range of version settings, controlled by the compatible setting. Normally upon install this is set to the current version of the database that’s been installed. There may be times, however, when a lower compatibility setting…
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Monthly Round Up
This blog by Federico Venturin links to his article ‘Handling Fine-Grained Data Visualization Permissions in Oracle Analytics Cloud.’ It goes through: In his conclusion, he writes, “Until now, the all-or-nothing approach for handling permissions in Data Visualization posed a significant hurdle to its widespread adoption since administrators understandably preferred to…
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Monthly Round Up – December 2023
Some of the best blogs I’ve read in the last month or so: This blog begins with, “I started some home lab cleanup this long weekend, and one of the first steps was to set up a separate DNS server for the lab. This is really just to make it…
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Monthly Round Up – October 2023
Blogs of the Week This blog centres around the new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Product Tours page. This is the analytics section The page also features links to useful YouTube videos. 2. Extract OCI Monitoring Metrics Using REST APIs Alfredo Krieg shares how you can list metric definitions and how…
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Monthly Round Up
Blogs of the Month 1.How to study for 1z0-1067-23 – Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2023 Cloud Operations Professional In this blog, Alex Zaballa gives some vital tips on what to focus on for the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2023 Cloud Operations Professional. He suggests you focus on: He also includes some handy…
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Recent Blogs and News
Blogs This blog begins with: “Today when checking a recently installed server with Oracle Linux 7.9 and ASM 19.17 with ASMLib, we found that when performing any reboot on the server, ASM could not mount the disks.” Read how the fix was applied! 2. Health Check for DB Nikhil shares…