Always Check Your Backups
So this is a 2 node RAC cluster on RHEL that was recently upgraded from 10.2.0.2 to 10.2.0.4. Since then clusterware restarts crs every few hours (8 in fact). A little research suggests that this can...
View ArticleWhat makes a DBA?
I wrote this article as a foreword for the 2007 Apress book “RMAN Recipes for Oracle Database 11g: A Problem-Solution Approach” by Darl Kuhn, Sam Alapati, and Arup Nanda (ISBN 1590598512), and I’m...
View ArticleNoSQL and Oracle, Sex and Marriage
At last week’s Dallas Oracle Users Group meeting, an Oracle DBA asked me, “With all the new database alternatives out there today, like all these open source NoSQL databases, would you recommend for us...
View ArticleCloud Control 12c Database Backup Jobs (Continued)
I’ve been rather critical of the way Cloud Control handles database backup jobs, as can be seen in these two previous posts.I love Cloud Control 12c, but the job management is really annoying!Oracle...
View ArticleOracle Database 12c : Some Backup and Recovery Stuff
In a previous post, I had already listed an article on backup and recovery when using the Oracle 12c multitentant option.Multitenant : Backup and Recovery of a Container Database (CDB) and a Pluggable...
View ArticleRestoring Controlfile When AUTOBACKUP Fail
Allow me to present the snapshot of a day from the life of John--the DBA at Acme Bank. On this particular day a database John manages crashed entirely and had to be restored from the backup. He takes...
View ArticleWhy You Should Periodically Review Your Backups
IntroductionSo like every good Oracle DBA, you’ve created a few databases, decided that if they were worth creating and using they might also be worth backing up, and created some backup scripts that...
View ArticleWhy You Should Periodically Review Your Backups
IntroductionSo like every good Oracle DBA, you’ve created a few databases, decided that if they were worth creating and using they might also be worth backing up, and created some backup scripts that...
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Recovery in the ☁ with Google Cloud SQL (PostgreSQL)
By Franck Pachot. In a previous post I started this series of “Recovery in the ” with the Oracle Autonomous database. My goal is to explain the recovery procedures, especially the Point-In-Time...
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