May 10

Where is Oracle Database 12.2.0.1 April 2017 PSU ?

Oracle 12.2 database is already available for more than 3 months. As expected, the first Patch Set for a given Release comes with a lot of bugs and we want as soon as possible a PSU to close all those gaps. However, I couldn't find the PSU for the 12.2 version on the quarterly April 2017 …

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Mar 10

Check which Hub Node is Leaf Node connected to in Oracle Flex Cluster

In this article, I will show how to detect to which Hub Node is your Leaf Node connected to in an Oracle Flex Cluster scenario where you have multiple Hub Servers. First of all, let's check our current scenario: [oracle@oranode3 ~]$ crsctl get node role status -all Node 'oranode1' active role is 'hub' Node 'oranode2' …

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Mar 09

OCM 12c Preparation - Download the Exam Environment

The exam environment keep changing over the time and I believe that Oracle will soon update the Linux and Database release to the latest. As Mar/2017, the exam environment in official OCM website is the following: Exam Environment Oracle Linux Release 6.5 64 bit Oracle Database 12c Enterprise Edition Release 12.1.0.2.0  64 bit Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12c Release …

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Mar 07

OCM 12c Preparation - Recommended Hardware

As we will need to create RAC (with Hub and Leaf Nodes), Dataguard (with Far Sync instance), Single Instance and Oracle EM machines scenarios, let's consider a scenario where we will need to simulate 4 VMs running at the same time. So, you will need at least: 16 GB RAM Quad core fast CPU (Something similar or better …

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Jan 19

Where are 11.2.0.4.170117 DB PSU and DBBP ?

On this January 17th Oracle released its quarterly PSU as we expected. The 12.1.0.2 version was OK regarding DB PSU, GI PSU, DBBP and OJVM PSU. However, for the 11.2.0.4 version, only the OJVM PSU of Jan 2017 was provided. All the combos came with Oct 2016 version of DB/GI fixes + Jan 2017 OJVM …

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