(biju.thomas) Oracle Database 18c (18.3) is available for download for windows platform since August 22, 2018.

(Syed Jaffar Hussain) Updating an Exadata software is one of the crucial tasks for any Database Machine Administrator (DMA).

(mdinh) I am preparing Dataguard for switchover with 1 primary and 3 standbys and should be able to tnsping all the services from log_archive_config=DG_CONFIG=(HAWKA,HAWKB,HAWKC)

(Martin Berger) Those who deal with MyOracleSupport (MOS) regularly will have noticed their demand for Trace File Analyzer (TFA) diagnostic collections.

(Mohamed Azar) When you try to open ‘Integrated SOA gateway page in EBS and loading long time with no response”

(Connor McDonald) Just a quick post today that arose from an AskTOM question a little while back.

(Anuradha Mudgal) Today we are going to have look on Cold Backup. Being DBA we are aware of the importance of Backup in Oracle. Different kind of backup has a different kind of uses.

(Franck Pachot) As you may have read in the news, CERN is testing some Oracle Cloud services. When a large organisation is using the Cloud Credits, there’s a need to control the service resources.

(Martin Berger) Oracles Automatic Storage Management (ASM) has many nice advantages against other volume managers.

(Martien van den Akker) It occurred to me that if you want to start using Docker there are plenty examples that use Ubuntu as a base platform. I read a book called Learning Docker that assumes Ubuntu for the examples, for instance.