Two ways to change Oracle passwords with Ansible

8 years ago

We do our share of database cloning for various purposes and usually the cloning process is fairly scripted. However lately…

How is my EBS instance using Exadata write-back flash cache?

8 years ago

When we were planning migration from commodity hardware to Exadata X5-2 one open topic we had was if it makes…

Oracle Open World & Intelligent Bot Service

8 years ago

Past week I attended Oracle Open World in San Francisco. I hadn't been there for last 7 years so it…

Oracle EBS Output Post Processor hanging after database upgrade to 12.1.0.2

8 years ago

We recently had very challenging issue after we upgraded our EBS 12.1.3 database from 11.2.0.3 to 12.1.0.2. On random occasions…

Looking deeper into ChatOps

8 years ago

Wow few upgrades and summer vacation kept me busy past few months. Lately I have been looking on automation and…

Passbolt v1.6.0 is out

8 years ago

Since I've written earlier about Passbolt as team password manager I thought it would make sense to notify there is…

Oracle VM 3.4.x & PVM vs HVM PV

8 years ago

Initially when we started to use Oracle VM we did lot of performance testing and at that point we went…

Oracle VM 3.4.2 CPU pinning & licensing

8 years ago

One of the reasons why we started using Oracle VM was due to Oracle's licensing policy with their products running…

Resize backup LVM on Exadata

8 years ago

We were patching Exadata and one of the YUM pre-checks failed due to invalid LVM size. We hadn't done any…

Optimizing performance for Oracle VM when using iSCSI storage

8 years ago

We implemented Oracle VM 3.3.2 around two years ago and biggest issue we had was using iSCSI storage having sub-optimal latency and…