Implementing Oracle Connection Manager with High Availability

One of the biggest problemas we have in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Classic is that when you provision an ExaCS you cannot assign "IP Network" addresses (as known as private IPs, eg: 10.x.x.x) to your ExaCS machine. That being said, you have only 2 options if you want to communicate your applications in Compute Classic (as …

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Oracle Cloud Ashburn x Chicago bandwidth test

Those days I had to implement an Oracle Cloud "IAAS Classic" solution for databases and applications with DR environments, considering the primary region as Ashburn (uscom-east-1) and the standby region as Chicago (uscom-central-1). To make both regions talk securely over the internet, I had to implement a VPN connection between both regions. Before stating everything, …

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Fixing VirtualBox crashing macOS on high load (Kernel Panic)

For a long time I had a problem in my VirtualBox 5.x when I need to run heavy oracle database process and it crashed not only the VM but my role macOS forcing my MacBook Pro to reboot with the following error message: After it returns, as soon as I log in I could see …

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Applying 171017 BP (26392124) over 170814 (26609769) returning "out of order" error.

Today I was trying to apply the Oracle Exadata Database 171017 BP (26392124) on top of 170814 (26609769) and I was getting the error below: [oracle@localhost 26392124]$ opatch apply Oracle Interim Patch Installer version 11.2.0.3.15 Copyright (c) 2017, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved. Oracle Home : /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1 Central Inventory : /u01/app/oraInventory from : /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1/oraInst.loc OPatch version …

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Dissecting 171017 BP, PSU, RU and RUR

Starting today I will quarterly write a post dissecting the changes implemented by Oracle CPUs so we can understand better the modifications implemented by Oracle in our Databases. So what oracle internal objects were changed in 170117? VERSION PATCH OWNER TYPE TOTAL -------------------- -------- ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ---------- 11.2.0.4 BP SYS PACKAGE BODY 1 11.2.0.4 PSU …

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