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TFA - Upgrading your latest version to the latest version
In my previous article about TFA, I showed how to upgrade TFA with the binaries from Oracle Metalink, this allowed us to use many of the diagnostic tools directly from TFA. However, my friend Gleb...
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How to change the database name in 12c
To change the database name is a common task for every Oracle Database Administrator, however with every version some things change and it is necessary to review the process that we have been using in...
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Getting started with Oracle Database Cloud Service
In this article we will do the first steps on Oracle Database Cloud Service. In my article "Oracle Cloud PaaS & SaaS Trials - Start to Play NOW!" I explained how you can request 30 days free of...
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Netherlands - AMIS25
This is my first time in Netherlands, I came to attend Oracle ACE Hackathon 2016 and also AMIS' conferences, I landed on May 30 in Amsterdam after 14 hours of my flight and then I moved to...
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OTN Tour 2015 en Guatemala fue un Éxito!
El día 17 de Agosto del 2015, se llevó a cabo el 4to año consecutivo del OTN Tour en Guatemala, este año llegamos a tener registrados casi el doble de personas que en el año 2014 lo cual es una clara...
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Active Duplicate Database Scenarios and the location of the datafiles
There are some misconceptions about DUPLICATE DATABASE operation and where the datafiles are located. I have seen some DBAs saying that only *_name_convert parameters should be used, but most of...
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Oracle Active Duplicate with Compressed BakckupSets
Since in Oracle Database 12c we can now use Active Duplicate using Backup set we also have another option, create that backupset Compressed, in that case what we are doing is to compress the BackupSet...
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¿Cómo crear un Virtual Image en Oracle Cloud?
Note: This article was written originally in Spanish. If you are reading this article in other language it is because of the automatic translator of ToadWorld.En este articulo te muestro los pasos de...
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Oracle Active Database Duplicate using BackupSets
In previous versions, the only way to use Active Duplicate was with "image copies". However Oracle 12c introduced a new feature for Active Duplicate operations, now it is possible to do the duplication...
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My OTN Tour 2016 Agenda
This year will be the 4th year that I have been Speaker in one of the biggest event in Latin America, the OTN Tour 2016. This event touches 10 countries of Latin America in just 2 weeks, several...
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OTN Tour 2016 - Guatemala
Note: This article was written originally in Spanish. If you are reading this article in other language it is because of the automatic translator of ToadWorld.Como todos los años, el Grupo de Usuarios...
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How to schedule a procedure to run inside a period of time
How many of us have had to schedule a job to run inside an Oracle Database? I believe this is one of the most common task that a DBA performs. But, some time the request doesn't end there, how about if...
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Quick guide to use Transparent Data Encryption (TDE 12c)
In this article I will show you how to configure TDE quickly, directly to the steps that you are looking for.You can also see the quick guide to configure TDE in 11g HERE.We will go through the...
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Quick guide to use Transparent Data Encryption (TDE 11g)
Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) is designed to provide the ability to transparently apply encryption within the database without impacting our applications. TDE provides the benefit of encryption...
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Introduction to JSON with Oracle Database
It's time to keep writing about Oracle Database 12.1.0.2 new features! In this article we will talk about JavaScript Object Notation better known as "JSON". Wow! Time goes by! I worked with JSON some...
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Thank you OTN Tour 2016
Oracle Technology Network Latin American Tour (OTN LA Tour) 2016 is done. I started my journey in Montevideo Uruguay, it was my first time there, and I had the opportunity to visit my good friends...
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RMAN Multi Section Backup 11g vs 12c
In my previous article called "RMAN Multi Section Backups in 11g" I was explaining How Multi Section Works in RMAN 11, we cleared some myths that there are in Internet saying that MultiSection cannot...
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RMAN Multi Section Backups in 11g
RMAN is the best tool to perform the backups of our databases, we can perform backups of our database, tablespaces , even datafiles and there are several functions to use in order to perform the backup...
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RMAN Duplicate and the option NOOPEN in 11g
In this article we will see an interesting thing. When I was starting reading Oracle 12c Documentation I read that one of the enhancements of RMAN was Multi Section as I explained in my article "RMAN...
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Relation between RMAN Parallel Setting and Channels
I have seen many DBAs having issues with Parallelism in RMAN, some DBAs could say that the RMAN parallel settings have to be set, others says that the channels that we assign explicitly is what have...
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