(Uwe Hesse) Fast-Start Failover is supported with Maximum Protection in 12cR2. Also Multiple Observers can now monitor the same Data Guard Configuration simultaneously. I will show both in this article. Starting with a (Multitenant) Primary in Maximum Protection mode with two Standby Databases.

(Mike Dietrich) I did blog several times about how to remove an unwanted component from a database. But yesterday I came across this interesting scenario worth a blog post.

(Frits Hoogland) I was investigating gathering performance data on (oracle) linux servers recently and came across Performance Co-Pilot (PCP). I have come across this product regularly in the past, but it seemed somewhat abstract to me, and I never ran into any actual usage.

(Maarten Smeets) WebLogic Server allows you to customize your access.log. This can be very powerful if you want to monitor for example service response times in a tool like Splunk (see here).

(Syed Jaffar Hussain) Since the announcement of 12cR2 on-premises availability, the Oracle community become energetic and busy tweeting/blogging the new features, demonstrating installation & upgrades.

(Tobias Arnhold) A few days ago I tweeted about a solution from Martin Giffy D’Souza to hide a specific column from export.

(Martin Bach) In the first part of this mini-series you saw me define the environment as well as creating a primary database. With that out of the way it’s time to think about the standby. Before the standby can be created, a few preparations are necessary both on the primary as well as the standby

(Lucas Jellema) Does JDeveloper work well with Git is a question I get asked occasionally. Or the question is not even asked and the assumption is that somehow the combination of JDeveloper and Git does not work well. It seems that this assumption is sometimes based on bad experiences from a long ti

(Ben Brumm) In this article, I’ll be covering the Oracle TO_MULTI_BYTE function, and look at some examples.

(tonyhasler) It is a very common requirement. You need to be able to log the start and end of procedure and function calls. You also need to log error and exception events and sometimes some informational messages as well.