Recovery Manager (RMAN) is the preferred tool to backup and recover the Oracle Database. You can use recovery catalog or the control file of the target database for RMAN Repository, but Recovery Catalog is the preferred method as it offers several advantages over the others, like reporting operations, simple recovery in case of control file damage, and more. Generally in… Read more
Oracle Database 12c has new enhancements and additions in Recovery Manager (RMAN). The Recovery Manager continues to enhance and extend the reliability, efficiency, and availability of Oracle Database Backup and Recovery. In this article series, I will be explaining the new features and how they help the Oracle community. See new features around SYSBACKUP, pluggable databases, and the SQL interfac… Read more
Oracle Database 12c has new enhancements and additions to Recovery Manager (RMAN). The Recovery Manager continues to enhance and extend the reliability, efficiency, and availability of Oracle Database Backup and Recovery. In this article series, I will be explaining the new features and how it will help the Oracle community. See new features covered in Part 1 – Oracle Databas… Read more
Oracle Database 12c has new enhancements and additions in Recovery Manager (RMAN). The Recovery Manager continues to enhance and extend the reliability, efficiency, and availability of Oracle Database Backup and Recovery. In this article series, I will be explaining the new features and how it will help Oracle community. In this article I will cover: SQL Interface Improvements SYSBACKUP Privileg… Read more
What is cloning? Cloning is a process of copying an existing installation to a different server or location. Cloning is similar to an Oracle installation except Oracle universal installation performs the actions in a special mode called “clone mode”. Starting from 10g onwards, Oracle supports cloning and users can easily clone existing Oracle installations. The source and destination servers should… Read more
Database replay was introduced in Oracle 11g R1, and it allows you to capture workloads on a Production system and replay them in your Development or test environments while maintaining the unique characteristics of the workload. This enables the user to test a variety of system changes such as hardware/software migration, operating system/ database upgrade, patches, database config changes etc… Read more
Red Gate is launching new tool “Source Control for Oracle tool” on March 12, 2013. How this tool can help you: Manual processes to script out database objects and check in them into SVN or TFS, can be time consuming and error prone. Source Control for Oracle automates scripting of objects and check-in to SVN or TFS. Developers and DBAs… Read more
This article is for users of Oracle Database version 10g+ who want to convert their Oracle single instance database to RAC. I will provide detailed procedure for converting non-RAC database to RAC and we will use Oracle Automatic storage management (ASM) as shared storage. In general, if the database is small then you can consider installing a new RAC database…
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