Oracle Exadata Administration Workshop (Jan-2022)

Posted on by Ahmed Abdel Fattah

I'm going to run two Exadata Administration workshops during Jan-2022. Both of them will start on 01-Jan till 08-Jan: The first one will start at 2pm till 6pm (Language= English) The second one will start at 7pm till 11pm (Language= English + Arabic). For workshop content, registration and fees, please follow the following link:https://tinyurl.com/mrmbjnku ThanksAhmed

Oracle Virtual Machines for Sale !

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Are you looking for a virtual machine to do some hands-on labs or practice something (i.e. for Educational purposes}? Do you have the time to build these virtual machines yourself? Below are some really nice Virtual Machines, that I invested allot of time to build on Oracle Virtual Box, and that I used them personally … Continue reading Oracle Virtual Machines for Sale !

Oracle Database 20c is now Generally Available

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Oracle Database 20c is now Generally Available on the cloud two days ago, 14-Feb-2020. Oracle 20c is next major database release. It includes many new fetaures espcially in the following areas: BlockchainMachine LearningSecurityJSONIn-Memory For a quick introduction to this new release:https://blogs.oracle.com/database/ga-of-oracle-database-20c-preview-release Also, for complete list of the new features, please refer to the:https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/20/newft/new-features.html Oracle Database … Continue reading Oracle Database 20c is now Generally Available

How to Create Autonomous Datawarehouse Database (Always Free Services)?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOJowoCyw7Y ThanksAhmed

Exadata – Flashcache Contents/objectNumber

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This is a quick post about a question that I got about the objectNumber in the "list flashcachecontent" output, is it the same as object_id in the dba_objects in the database? Answer: No, objectNumber is not the same as object_id in dba_objects, actually it maps to the "data_object_id" not the "object_id" Example: Also, the tablespaceNumber … Continue reading Exadata – Flashcache Contents/objectNumber

Oracle Exadata Log Files

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When time came to troubleshooting , we started to search and review the log files. At stress time, one may waste time searching about the location of these log files. So, it may be a good practice to document the location of your environment log files, so as to reach them quickly when you need … Continue reading Oracle Exadata Log Files

Oracle Database Guard 12c Implementation with RAC (Step-by-Step)

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Introduction: This is a real data guard implementation case for one of my clients. Data Guard is implemented between two clusters that reside on two different supercluster machines. The below procedure applies between any two clusters, it doesn't matter if it is a supercluster or Exadata or normal servers. I tried to put as much … Continue reading Oracle Database Guard 12c Implementation with RAC (Step-by-Step)