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Oracle Database 12c: Binary installation
In this blog posting, I will show you the Oracle 12c Binary installation, including some of the preinstallation tasks. I will also present you some of the new Oracle 12c Binary features - such as a...
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Errors while installing Oracle Database Vault on Oracle 11.2.0.3
During one of my last consulting missions, I had to install Oracle Database Vault on an existing Oracle environment. It clearly was not a straigthforward process, since I experienced some weird errors...
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Oracle Database 12c: Information Lifecycle Management
More and more resources are used in companies to manage data. Most companies buy more and more storage systems because of poor resource utilization. Starting with Oracle 11g, Oracle has introduced...
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Oracle WebLogic 12.1.2 - new features
The new Oracle WebLogic Sever 12c (WLS 12.1.2.0.0) was released on 11 July 2013. Since I read lots of documents, announcements, and information regarding this new version, I want to inform you about...
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Data Pump in Oracle Database 12c: die wichtigsten Neuigkeiten
Letztes Jahr hat Oracle CEO Larry Ellison während der Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco ein neues Datenbank Release angekündigt, das nun endlich zur Verfügung steht. In diesem Blogbeitrag möchte ich...
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Oracle Java EE 7 - an overview
After announcing the availability of Oracle Java Enterprise Edition 7 (Java EE 7 or JEE7), Oracle organized a web event for the launch, covering topics such as the new features and the java community...
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Oracle Database 12c: Partitioning enhancements Part I - Reference partitioning
Oracle Database 12c offers several enhancements for partitioning. This blog posting will present some enhancements in relation to reference partitioning. The differences between the Oracle 11g R2 and...
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At one of my customers, I experienced a problem with the Documentum Administrator (DA), which did not display the correct Index Agent status. In this blog post, I will explain how I found the source of...
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Oracle Database 12c new features: segregation of duties with new...
Starting with Oracle Database 12c Release 1, Oracle has introduced a set of more task-oriented new administrative privileges. Prior to Oracle 12c you had to have the SYSDBA privilege to make a backup,...
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SQL Server 2012 SP1: Fifth Cumulative Update (CU5) available
The 16 july, Microsoft published the fifth Cumulative Update (CU5) for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Service Pack one. As usual, if this Cumulative Update solves an issue you are facing, install it quickly...
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Oracle Database 12c: SecureFiles enhancements
Oracle Database 12c features with some enhancements for LOB objects and particularly for the SecureFiles. This is not a revolution, but we can see that the range of possibilities with LOB objects...
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Oracle Database 12c: PDBs not yet full transportable
One of the benefit of the new Oracle multi-tenant database option is to create kind of cloned environments through simple statements. This post will focus on the creation of pluggable database through...
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Oracle Cloud Application Foundation for next-generation applications
On 11 July 2013, Oracle launched the so-called Cloud Application Foundation. An online launch event was organized on 31 July 2013 to introduce this new term in the Oracle Stack. This event had two...
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Oracle Database 12c: The secret of moving datafiles online
Some time ago, my colleague Michael Schwalm wrote about a new Oracle Database 12c feature for moving database files online. In this post, we will not describe the syntax of the command, but focus on...
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Oracle Database 12c : démarrage automatique des Pluggable Databases
Dans ce blog post, nous allons nous intéresser à la gestion des PDBs (Pluggable Database) dans Oracle 12c. Plus exactement, nous allons nous pencher sur l'arrêt et le démarrage automatiques des PDBs en...
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Oracle 12c: Partitioning enhancements Part II - Other improvements
Oracle Database 12c offers several enhancements for partitioning. In a previous blog posting, I talked about reference partitioning enhancements. This post will present other enhancements in relation...
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Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12c: prerequisites for installation
Grid infrastructure 12c has recently been released. In this posting, I will show that the installation prerequisites are quite similar between Grid Infrastructure 11g and 12c. We will see parts of them...
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SQL Server 2012 SP1: Sixth Cumulative Update (CU6) available
Some days ago, Microsoft published the sixth Cumulative Update (CU6) for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Service Pack one, two months after the fifth one.As usual, if this Cumulative Update solves an issue...
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Oracle Open World 2013 : Solving customer issues I - Adaptive execution plans
During the last year, I faced many performance issues at customer sites with their applications. To solve the issues, I had to implement some workarounds because in most cases, the application code...
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Oracle Open World 2013: First day - In-Memory, Perl for DBAs, and RDBMS...
Oracle Open World 2013 just started this Sunday morning, 22 October. I'm very happy to be part of such an event this year as an attendee and as a speaker. It's a very impressive event with lots of...
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