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When I sat down at my desk yesterday morning I was greeted with some disturbing email alerts notifying me that one of the NFS mounts on my standby database host was full. This was the NFS mount that held an image copy of my database that is updated daily from... [Read More]

When adding ZFSSA targets to #EM12c, be sure to uncheck "kiosk user" for the oracle_agent user in ZFSSA. Doc ID 1609846.1The versions 12.1.0.3.0 and 12.1.0.4.0 of the ZFS plugin require additional access to  the ZFS appliance over that provided by the workflow used to configure the user. In addition to configuring... [Read More]

We recently upgraded our EM12c 12.1.0.2 installation to 12.1.0.3. This service was configured to authenticate logins against our Active Directory server via LDAP. However, after upgrading we found that authentication stopped working, even after recreating the Active Directory Authenticator (as required). I could see the list of users from AD,... [Read More]

When I started out as an Oracle DBA on Oracle 7.3, nearly everyone would tell you to avoid doing a "shutdown abort" if at all possible since it leaves the database open to possible corruptions. In the years and versions since, that thinking has softened greatly, to the point that... [Read More]

When I started my current role a few months ago, I was very interested to learn that direction had been set to migrate away from ASM and onto NFS storage that had some read flash cache in front of it. I'm not the world's biggest fan of ASM and the... [Read More]