The installation of Oracle software is sometimes a bit tedious. Especially if you have to download all the latest patches (Datapump, OJVM, RU, OPatch). Thanks…
If you have an Active Data Guard configuration there are situations where you want to have a connection pool to a READ ONLY Standby database.…
If you have been patching your Oracle Enterprise Manager Environment frequently you were struggling with patching the WLS and all other components. Since the latest…
Last week I held a presentation in beautiful Buchares Romania (https://contech2024.rooug.ro) about “Modern ways to stage your non-prod systems”.In this presentation I show some examples…
With the release 19.8 of the ODA software Oracle released the JAVA SDK and the REST API officially for managing the ODA. (https://docs.oracle.com/en/engineered-systems/oracle-database-appliance/19.8/odapi/index.html). Before the…
On March 11th 2020 the Swiss Oracle User Group Day should have happened in Bern. Due to the current situation with the corona virus the…
Based on Franck Pachots Blog about the unexpected downtime of the always free tier Databases I wrote an ansible playbook which restarts all your free…
Beside the OCI Commandline SDK there are also ansible modules available for configuring and changing components in the Oracle Cloud. The modules are under the…
To be part of the OGB Appreciation Day I have written a Blog Post to show you how easy it is to create an always…
This post shows an ansible role for installing and patching an Oracle Home in a fully automated way.