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…
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…
April’s Best Blogs
1.Configuring Shared Global Area (SGA) in a Multitenant Database David Kurtz shared, “I have been working on a PeopleSoft Financials application that we have converted from a stand-alone database to be the only pluggable database (PDB) in an Oracle 19c container database (CDB). We have been getting ORA-4031 (unable to…
Weekly Update w/c 4th March 2024
Maria Colgan shared, “The longer an application has been successfully run, the more likely you are to have indexes that are no longer used or beneficial. Removing these indexes not only saves space but can also improve the performance of any DML operations. But knowing which indexes can be safely…
Weekly update
Neil Chandler begins this blog with, “Gathering object statistic in Oracle is important. The optimizer needs metadata about the object, such as the amount of rows and number of distinct values in a column, to help it decide the optimum way to access your data. This takes effort, and takes…
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…
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…
What’s going on this February?
Blogs of the month Patching my environments with the January 2023 Bundle Patches Mike Dietrich shares information about January’s Security Alert and gives a quick overview of the patch bundles he intends to apply to his 19c and 21c environments. 2. Fixing up oem 11g This blog begins with, “Although oracle enterprise…
Pre-Christmas Blog
I’d love to take this opportunity to wish you a wonderful festive season – and all the very best for 2023. If you’ve got a few moments amongst the mince pie eating, here are some great blogs and videos to read and watch: Blogs of the month Star Schema Design…