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Cloud control simple high availability in Azure
Over the past few weeks I've been doing various installs and configurations of things in Azure, this past 2 weeks I've been building up a cloud control instance to manage the oracle components we have...
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Cloud control 13c upgrade (part 2)
So some of you may remember that i attempted to upgrade from 12.1.0.5 to 13cR1 a couple of months back which went pretty badly - see here I've finally got round to trying this again last night.....And...
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Cloud control 13c - dude wheres my menu options!
Snappy title eh?So as you saw from my previous post we finally got to 13c and everything looked pretty good from my point of view - and by mine i mean doing everything as sysman...So what happens when...
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Modern database links.....?
I've heard a lot recently that database links are not 'modern' (anyone else noticed this phrase coming up in relation to lots of things lately......). People don't seem to like them as they are tightly...
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Standby wallets
As you may have seen from earlier posts we are setting up to stuff in azure. As this is public cloud we want to ensure we encrypt the data at rest (i.e. in the datafiles on disk) so not anyone can read...
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Wallet strangeness follow up
Hot on the heels of the last post we also had a very strange issue when we tried to do a datapump import into the TDE tablespaces i created in the previous post.99% of the import worked fine - apart...
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cloud control 13c - now with full version numbers!
Another nice thing i just noticed with cloud control 13cR1 (and i guess R2 now too) is that db versions are now 'fuller'previously where we would just see 11.2.0.4.0 we now see something like thisAnd...
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Characterset the email revenge
Now if you've read a few of my blog posts over the past few years you'll know i have an ongoing hate/hate relationship with anything to do with charactersets.Things had been reasonable quiet recently...
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Linux in Azure single sign on
As you may have guessed from the title this is not specifically an Oracle related post but I'm sure it's still of interest to many people and is likely to be in scope for what a lot of DBA's are now...
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23 is the new 42
A bizarre one this week....We upgraded one of our criticial production apps from 11.2.0.3 to 12.1.0.2 (+ latest PSU) and everything went well during the upgrade and seemingly afterwards too, that was...
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SSO to cloud control 13c with Azure active directory
So more on this cloud stuff then.....Well in this case the work is just as applicable to a normal on premises configuration with 'standard' Active directory (other types of ldap directory can be used...
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SSO to zabbix with Azure AD
This is a very quick follow up to the last post and uses the same technique to enable SSO to the zabbix application.The initial steps that need to be followed in Azure AD are exactly the same as the...
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Characterset again - this is beyond a joke now
So another week another characterset problem, this time it cleverly disguised itself to start with......Here is what i was initially presented withrman TARGET sys/password@DEMO AUXILIARY...
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V$PARAMETER nls bug ?
Today we had a strange issue when doing a standby switchover related to NLS - we had built the standby with the exact same NLS_SETTINGS in the spfile as the primary - see list...
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Startup trigger and wallet 'quirk'
Many of you out there will be using dataguard and i guess most of you will have some variation of the startup trigger belowCREATE OR REPLACE NONEDITIONABLE TRIGGER "SYS"."MANAGE_SERVICE" after...
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why is sql monitor not working.....?
Today i've had to look at our nightmarish datawarehouse to try and tune some bad SQL.Well bad does not really go far enough to be honest - it's a multi layered view with thousands of lines of SQL in...
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Oracle uploaded a non working image to Azure cloud?
It's been a while since my last post, just seem to get out of the habit of posting and have been preparing a presentation which i'm due to give Wednesday at UKOUG but had to post this topic I've...
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Oracle image in Azure - part 2.......
The last post prompted a couple of suggestions (thanks Tim) and talking it through with a colleague at work (thanks John) and it seems i now understand what's going on.So it seems as i suggested Oracle...
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Azure SQL PaaS - first look
It's been a somewhat 'interesting' week- with Oracle's frankly outrageous announcement that they are doubling the licence cost to host Oracle in Azure and AWS we've been looking again at our hosting...
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File movement in and out of Azure
After a busy couple of weeks i finally got round to writing something new up - not strictly directly database related but If you're doing any work with Azure - getting files in and out of it is a key...
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