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Surprisingly, not everyone in the world speaks the same language. How can you help your audience get the most from your sessions when presenting in...
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How Not to Find Data Guard Gaps
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I've recently had several encounters with a query for checking for archive log gaps. It appears on multiple blogs, and I suspect it may originate...
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How to Pull Images From Oracle's Container Registry
March, 14 2024
Once Upon a Time,Oracle shared container images in the kingdom of Docker Hub. They were freely available and easy to pull from a magical well...
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Use Caution When Creating Gold Images!
December, 5 2023
In older Oracle database releases, you would use the clone.pl script to create a copy of your Oracle Home. This process is much faster (and...
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Run Oracle 23c On-Premises NOW
November, 3 2023
Earlier this year, Oracle announced the release of Oracle Database 23c Free . This free edition of the database software replaces the old Express...
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How to Bypass Oracle Concurrency and Solve Deadlocking
September, 21 2023
Spoiler: You’re probably not smarter than the database kernel There’s no question that Oracle handles concurrency—managing multiple inserts,...
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Critical Issue in AHF 23.4.0 May Delete Remote ORACLE_HOMEs
May, 31 2023
Did that headline get your attention? Good!
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Docker Service Startup Failure When Using A Custom Docker Directory on Linux
April, 7 2023
On Linux, you can change where Docker persists its resources from /var/lib/docker to a different directory. This directory contains all of your...
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Create a Fast-Start Failover Observer Service on Linux
February, 2 2023
Oracle Data Guard protects critical database environments with exact, physical standbys, or copies, of production databases. Business...
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Find the Gap
October, 14 2022
A client’s Data Guard environment fell out of sync when archive logs went missing from the standby. A number of factors played a part:
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