Oracle Database Vault Explained: Protecting Sensitive Data from Privileged Users
A few years back I did a security review for a banking client, and one line in their audit report ...
Tag: Oracle DBA
Oracle Database 19.32 Release Update (RU) Patching Guide – Patch 39472050
Oracle continues to deliver quarterly Release Updates (RUs) for Oracle Database 19c, helping organizations stay secure, stable, and fully supported. ...
Exadata Cloud@Customer: What Provisioning Actually Looks Like on the Ground
I've sat through two Exadata Cloud@Customer rollouts now, both from the customer side of the table, and both times the ...
Oracle True Cache vs Redis: Which One Actually Fits Your Workload
Somebody asked me last week whether True Cache was going to "replace" Redis in our stack, and I had to ...
Oracle General Purpose Cluster (GPC) in Oracle Database 26ai: Simplifying High Availability for Single-Instance Databases
Not every database needs a RAC deployment. That sounds obvious when you say it out loud, but for years the ...
Oracle RAC Local Rolling Database Maintenance in 26ai: Why Moving Sessions Across Nodes Is Now the Old Way
There's a particular kind of anxiety that every RAC DBA knows — the feeling right before you relocate services off ...
Oracle RAC Two-Stage Rolling Updates: The Patching Innovation That Enterprise DBAs Have Been Waiting For
Let me be direct about something most patching guides won't say out loud: the hardest part of applying an Oracle ...
Oracle ASM Disk Group Administration: The Operations You’ll Actually Use
Creating a disk group is the easy part. You run the command, ASM mounts it, databases connect, and everything works. ...
Oracle ASM Sector Size: The Storage Detail That Actually Matters
Most DBAs don't think about sector sizes until something breaks. A disk group refuses to mount, I/O performance is worse ...
Oracle ASM Disk Groups: What Every DBA Actually Needs to Know
I'll be straight with you — disk groups aren't the exciting part of Oracle administration. Nobody gets into this field ...
