(Hemant K Chitale) In my previous blog post, I had demonstrated a few custom services created and started with DBMS_SERVICE.

(Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman) Change is difficult for technical folks. Our world is always moving at blinding speed, so if you start changing things that we don’t think need to be changed, even if you improve upon them, we’re not always appreciative.

(Dirk Nachbar) In Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c were introduced a nice new feature for auditing activities of Oracle WebLogic Server events.

(Uwe Hesse) The Data Guard Broker is recommended for various reasons, this one is less obvious: It prevents a Split-Brain problem that may otherwise occur in certain situations. Let me show you:

(Anand) “Tuned” in RHEL7/OEL7 is tuning daemon for automatically tuning the system via the use of tuning profile. It can also be configured to react to changes to improve performance of the server and also to make system settings persistent.

(Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman) With the addition of the Configuration Management from OpsCenter to Enterprise Manager 13c, there are some additional features to ease the management of changes and drift in Enterprise Manager, but I’m going to take these posts in baby steps, as the feature can be a little da

(Fuad Arshad) “REDO_TRANSPORT_USER” was an Oracle Database Parameter that was introduced in Oracle release 11.1 to help transporting redo from a primary to a standby by using a user designated for log transport , The default configuration assumes the user “SYS” is performing the transport.

(savvinov) Oracle cost-based optimizer (CBO) is great, but sometimes it’s making wrong choices even when correct inputs are fed to it. In such cases, you need a tool to override CBOs choices, and one of the most popular tools is optimizer hints.

(Michael McLaughlin) What happens when you can’t get a PL/SQL Web Toolkit to work because it only prints to a web page? That’s more tedious because any dbms_output.put_line command you embed only prints to a SQL*Plus session. The answer is quite simple, you create a test case and test it inside a SQ

(Andrejus Baranovskis) How many times you complained about ADF export collection listener generated output? There are two options for the output – CSV and excelHTML. Both of them are not really Excel friendly (Excel complains, each time when such file is opened) and produced output lacks formatting.