(Hemant K Chitale) 12.2 now allows AWR Snapshots and Reports to be created at the PDB level.

(mdinh) Currently, I am working on health check for ODA and find there are too many tools with disparate information.

(Martin Bach) In the previous blog post I used libvirt and KVM in my lab environment to simulate a transient disk failure and how to recover from it. This post takes this example a step further: I am simulating another disk failure, but this time won’t pretend I can fix the issue and put it back. In

(Christian Antognini) The aim of this post is to summarize the knowledge about the 12.1 and 12.2 adaptive query optimizer configuration that, as far as I know, is spread over a number of (too many) different sources.

(mdinh) I fail to understand why people do not set environment variables or even update /etc/oratab with AGENT_HOME as an example.

(Uwe Hesse) AUTHID_CURRENT_USER can be misused by developers. The new object privilege INHERIT PRIVILEGES ON was introduced in 12c to prevent that. I start with a demo to explain the problem that the new features solves.

(Dirk Nachbar) You might remember the previous method to create multiple Managed Servers for Oracle Forms 11g, which can be found under the My Oracle Support Note 989118.1. This procedure were quite a bit critical, as you had to provide manually several arguments and classpath entries for the cloned

(Hemant K Chitale) A non-partitioned table can be Partitioned (without having to use DBMS_REDEFINITION) online.

(Andrejus Baranovskis) I have promised to atendee of my OOW’16 session (Building Enterprise-Grade Mobile Apps with Oracle JET and Cordova [CON5731]) to post a blog about ADF BC REST security and integration with Oracle JET.

(Ben) In this article, I’ll explain what the Oracle EMPTY_BLOB function does and show you an example of how to use it.