Category: Oracle Database General

Oracle Database General

Nov 26

Dissecting 181016 BP, PSU, RU and RUR

Since 2017 I am quarterly writing a post dissecting the changes implemented by Oracle CPUs so we can understand better the modifications implemented by Oracle in our Databases. To check previous changes, follow the links below: Dissecting 171017 BP, PSU, RU and RUR Dissecting 180116 BP, PSU, RU and RUR Dissecting 180417 BP, PSU, RU …

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Oct 29

The best upcoming features in Oracle Database 19c

In the Oracle Open World 2018 event that happened in San Francisco last week, from October 22nd to 25th, much has been said about the trends and strategy paths that Oracle is taking in both OCI and in Oracle Database. As we DBA's are always excited about the upcoming features, I will share below some …

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Aug 09

Dissecting 180717 BP, PSU, RU and RUR

Since Oct-2017 I am quarterly writing a post dissecting the changes implemented by Oracle CPUs so we can understand better the modifications implemented by Oracle in our Databases. This is the first one to include change on 18c version. So what oracle internal objects were changed in 180717? VERSION PATCH OWNER TYPE TOTAL ---------- --------------- …

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Jul 31

ORA-20000: Oracle Text Error: CTXSYS.JSONREST_GENERIC_STOPLIST not created

Those days when I was trying to apply the Apr 2018 Release Update Revision 12.2.0.1.180717, I got the error below during datapatch roolback execution of the previous patch: Patch 27013506 rollback (pdb PDB01): WITH ERRORS logfile: /u01/app/oracle/cfgtoollogs/sqlpatch/27013506/21779816/27013506_rollback_ORCL_PDB01_2018Jul31_00_12_34.log (errors) Error at line 32785: ORA-20000: Oracle Text Error: CTXSYS.JSONREST_GENERIC_STOPLIST not created And in logfile there was this …

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Jun 20

Installing Oracle Database on ARM small single-board computer

In this article I will describe how to install an Oracle Database in a small single-board computer, making it the smallest Oracle DB server in the world! =] How is it possible? What hardware did I use? What is the performance of it? As there many questions and steps involved, I've split this article in the …

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