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Concept When designing High Availability for database it is important to set the practical expectations of RPO and RTO, this ensures there is minimal impact for critical applications when database...
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Hi, This blog contains some questions about material I covered in the recent SQL Performance Tuning webinars I did for Toad World. IF you have questions about Oracle, PL/SQL, performance tuning…funnel...
View ArticleWiki Page: Managing Data guard configuration on Oracle 12c Container Database
Written by Syed Jaffar Hussain SUMMARY Oracle 12c Multitenancy (MT) provides a solid platform to consolidate multiple databases onto a single container database (CDB) for better database management,...
View ArticleBlog Post: What keeps database administrators awake at night and the search...
What keeps you and me awake at night? When I was a consultant for a Fortune 500 company in Southern California, we were getting beaten up to prove that databases were being backed up correctly and that...
View ArticleForum Post: What will be the role of a DBA in NoSQL-Hadoop world? Is the role...
Adoption of new technologies will be inevitable; the key factor is DBA mindset as it evolves over the experience gained from vast areas of data management. Technology advances on demand and if we see...
View ArticleWiki Page: PIVOT clause
The facts stored in the sales table in the SH sample schema are quantity_sold and amount_sold and the dimensions are prod_id, cust_id, time_id, channel_id, and promo_id. Suppose that it is required to...
View ArticleBlog Post: Installing OEM13c management agent in silent mode
For many customers I work with SSH won’t be available between the OEM and monitoring hosts. Therefore you cannot push the management agent on to the host from the OEM console. Customer might have to...
View ArticleBlog Post: Creating and Reading SPSS and SAS data sets in R
Have you ever been faced with having to generate a data set in the format that is needed by another analytics tool? or having to generate a data set in a particular format but you don't have the...
View ArticleBlog Post: Oracle BI Publisher Bundle Patch Released
For those of you using BI Publisher (BIP), the BI Bundle Patch 11.1.1.7.160719 containing patch 23299563 has been released. However note that this is not to be applied to the BI Publisher that is...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: What will be the role of a DBA in NoSQL-Hadoop world? Is the...
The role of a DBA in the NoSQL world has not diminished, it has only become different. The difference is based on the differences in the database model and the environment in which a database is used....
View ArticleBlog Post: Oracle Database Cloud Service: Set up Access Rules
I’ve started to test Oracle Database Cloud Services. I applied for trial, it’s accepted (you can also get a trial account, there’s no special requirement for it). After I got my welcome emails, I...
View ArticleComment on Application Builder Cloud Service Introduction
Sten, Like your article gives good insights beyond the marketing material. I still have a question: ABCS has a price per month for each developer but not for users. So, once you have created an...
View ArticleBlog Post: Maximum Achievable Benefit
Because I am an expert on Oracle development tools, I'm often asked for advice on technology migration projects, typically from Oracle Forms. Most of these projects originate in the IT department, and...
View ArticleComment on Application Builder Cloud Service Introduction
You can add an unlimited number of users. You create them as users in the identity domain where the ABCS app is created. An ABCS application has full security features: The developer can define...
View ArticleBlog Post: PL/SQL 101: Less code is better - avoid unnecessarily complex...
With programmers new to PL/SQL (and SQL), it is not uncommon to find that they overcomplicate things, writing more code than is necessary, and putting too much logic into PL/SQL. That problem can then...
View ArticleBlog Post: ORA-04031 Unable to Allocate Shared Memory
When executing a procedure I am getting "ORA-04031: unable to allocate shared memory" error. How do I avoid this error?
View ArticleBlog Post: New features for the Oracle Compute Cloud Service (IaaS) from...
Several new features have been announced for the Oracle Compute Cloud Service (IaaS) from this October onwards. Firstly, it is now possible to use the API to create IP networks – whereby you can create...
View ArticleBlog Post: Bulk inserts in MongoDB
Like most database systems, MongoDB provides API calls that allow multiple documents to be inserted in a single operation. I’ve written about similar interfaces in Oracle in the past – for instance in...
View ArticleComment on Maximum Achievable Benefit
Yes, the projects originate in the IT office, but it is typically the business that is chasing IT for a long list of enhancements. Many Forms applications started off life by being created by what is...
View ArticleBlog Post: On the importance of keeping algorithmic logic separate from...
On the PL/SQL Challenge , all times are shown in the UTC timezone. Weekly quizzes end on Friday, midnight UTC. So I recently decided that when I display the time that the quiz starts and ends, I should...
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