Emre Baransel - Oracle Blog

"alter database mount clone database" is a statement that forces all datafiles to be put OFFLINE when mounting the target instance. You'll see it's being used in the background when you run RMAN commands like: "transport tablespace" "recover tablespace.

I made a presentation called "Best Practices for Exadata Maximum Availability" at BGOUG autumn event last week. In addition to general Exadata best practices about backup&recovery, disaster recovery, RAC&ASM, corruption detection features;.

Good new features announced, such as finding Flash Cache and Flash Log statistics on AWR, automatic ASM data redundancy check even shutting down a storage server by pressing the power button or through ILOM, preventing Flash Cache population in cell.

Monitoring database servers for hardware failures in Exadata used to be an issue. We have CELLCLI for storage servers where we can make many administration tasks and set SMTP configuration to receive e-mail for hardware failures. For the DB servers we.

Turning on auditing on a physical standby database may be preferred when you want to audit the queries against the read only standby database. Obviously it's not possible to keep audit records on standby database by setting audit_trail to DB or DB_EXTENDED..

I made this presentation at Serbia Oracle User Group event in Zlatibor and Harmony 2015 event in Tallinn at last month. Both were very nice organizations that i really enjoyed, learned much and met with many Oracle experts. I prepared this presentation.

Online redefinition is a great way to make structural change on "big" tables having "lots of" DML. Using online redefinition, partitioning-nonpartitioning, adding-dropping columns, changing column data types, moving to another tablespace and more.

The case was to roll forward a physical standby with an RMAN SCN incremental backup taken from primary. The standby database was just restored and necessary archived logs was missing somehow (That's another story). It was something i already did in.

In an Oracle Database we can mention following auditing types: Mandatory Auditing Standard Auditing Fine-Grained Auditing SYS Auditing Mandatory Auditing causes database start-up/shut-down and SYSDBA-SYSOPER login logout information to.

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