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When the Apex login screen is slow?
For quite a while now we've had issues with one of our Apex installations. We have two completely parallel systems that independently process the same data - the business can access either one of these...
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A short note on ACL's inside the database
Back in 11g oracle introduced the concept of access control lists (ACL's) to restrict what network ports could be opened from within the database - personally i think this was solving a problem that...
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What on earth is SCHEMA_EXPORT/STATISTICS/MARKER in datapump?
Recently when doing some datapump work i noticed an odd extra line appearing in 12c when doing schema exports - but only when exporting from a PDB - let me show you what i mean.So this is the output...
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All roads lead to agentdeploy
Over 12 months ago now i wrote a short summary of manually installing a cloud control agent - that post is here. Revisiting that this week with a fresh batch of installs i had a look again at the...
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Datapump export from standby/read only databases?
Occasionally i am reminded of the fact that the exp tool still works against a standby or a database open read only where the new and much improved datapump does not - datapump is not looking so clever...
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Bill and Ted's excellent datapump
Completely pointless post really but I'll add it anyway.When i was doing an import today i just happened to take a look at the external table definition the import process was loading fromSo the DW...
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Getting to apex via the wrong port?
Today we've had lots of 'fun' with out firewall setup and Apex - we had originally setup port 1099 which worked from one office location but we planned to move to a different port to be accessible from...
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Tuning the elephant
This past couple of weeks i was contacted about a performance issue with some plsql code in one of our live systems. The batch job was taking well over an hour to run where previously (allegedly) it...
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It's a trap!
I'll avoid going into a whole load of star wars metaphors here, what i wanted to mention is that sometimes the simplest things can make you fall into a trap that could be disastrous...In our case all...
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So cloud control - what's my database PSU?
Keeping track in an automated way of all the database PSU versions applied across the entire database estate can be a little tricky and time consuming (or both). Cloud control has the facility to be...
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Random datapump examples to show what can be done
This is a reference as much for me as anyone else of 3 recent exports that were done where we wanted schema copies with all of the structure (including plsql and user definition etc) but only some of...
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Adding a new replicated schema into an existing streams setup
I love streams - i think it's one of the best features in the database - it's incredibly powerful and incredibly underused. I still prefer it to goldengate.Anyway what i wanted to share was how simple...
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I'm missing a transform....
We've recently copied one of our schemas from a tablespace using TDE (i.e. wallets etc) to another system where we didn't have the ASO licence.The issue we had is that datapump dump file was created...
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Datapump and partitions - some examples
A commonly asked question i see is around the use of dataump for moving partitions around and what is and isn't possible. I decided to do some small testing for myself to illustrate some of what is...
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Finding cluster ip address on SLES
Slightly off topic here and I'm not sure if it's the same story when using oracle clusterware (i guess it is - but nowhere to test it out for the moment) but it seems that good old ifconfig does not...
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Which DB is Apex running out of?
With the use of Apex growing and growing inside our organisation at the moment I've been wondering how we actually know when we connect to an Apex url (and I'm talking using EPG or emebedded plsql...
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Sqlplus meets the cloud.....
Love sqlplus but looking to make use of the cloud.....?This 'functionality' has been around for a long time (maybe even prior to 9i - i didn't have anything old enough running where i could test it)...
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Reporting on Oracle licence usage......
Now i'm on dodgy ground talking about this topic and i'm caveating this right at the start of this post. Do not trust ANY information found on random blog sites to do with licencing of Oracle databases...
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ASM audit file overload
I posted a few weeks ago about adding a cloud control metric extension to monitor inodes. inodes have come up again today as the filesystem filled up (i know, i know the metric extension should have...
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An unexpected sequel (the template of doom) ...
In an unexpected follow up to the hit post AUTOMATICALLY ASSIGNING MONITORING TEMPLATES TO DATABASES IN CLOUD CONTROL I've something of a warning about properly testing templates and what they are...
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