Has been a while since I got to use Grafana, and since I decided to reinstall OEM, I have decided to try to monitor the Oracle Databases using Grafana Just to clarify, this is just a test to get to understand Grafana and other components like Prometheus, not something that could be consider in your... » read more
After my recent OEM 13.4 Installation I needed to start adding targets to it. Like previously, I just followed Oracle-Base article to complete the same: Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c Post-Installation Setup Tasks I added the Software Library location in the OEM host, but skipped the MOS configuration and Update, to go directly to... » read more
With the dead of Adobe Flash Player, I decided it was a good time to get a new OEM system so I can test OEM without flash and test couple of things on it. With this guide just wanted to make sure I have all the details in case I need to make a new... » read more
Like I mentioned on my previous post about Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning I got to install BrokeDBA FPP Vagrant Fork as a test for this new (for me at least) Oracle management system. A good place to start checking about the benefits of Oracle FPP: Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning – Introduction and Technical... » read more
I didn’t have the opportunity yet to test anything related to Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning but a BrokeDBA’s tweet, made me realised I really should check it out: Blog #20 💡🚀💡 ✅Try my Vagrant build fork of Oracle Fleet Patching and provisioning (FPP) .✅ Deploy an FPP environment in one command on your laptop... » read more
This recent post by Michael Dinh for pythian.com – HOW TO EASILY PURGE LOGS FOR GI AND DB reminded me that I have never posted anything about this great tool for housekeeping. I actually discovered it after a customer requested more information about it, and couldn’t be more grateful about it since is a very... » read more
One of the best things about the Oracle Community is the amount of people willing to share cool information and tools they develop on their own. I guess we could say "Sharing is caring" 🙂 One of the people you should start following (but I’m sure you already do..) is Kamil Stawiarski. He recently created... » read more
![DML Operations over Standby in Active Dataguard [19c feature]](https://project42.site/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/DML-Redirect-360x240.png)
One of the new Features for 19c database is the possibility to execute DML operations (INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE…) over a Standby in a Active Dataguard configuration. The operation itself won’t be actually executed in the standby, but redirected to the primary where will be executed and then apply in the standby by the Recovery Process.... » read more
![Standby Automatic Flashback [19c feature]](https://project42.site/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Automatic_flashback-360x240.jpg)
One of the new Database 19c Features is the possibility of automatically Flashback the standby database if the Primary has been Flashback. There are couple of requisites though, the Standby has to have Flashback enabled, and in order for the Automatic flashback to start, the standby has to be mounted Lets do a quick test... » read more