(Martin Bach) When writing playbooks, I occasionally add optional tasks. These tasks are only executed if a corresponding configuration variable is defined. I usually define configuration variables either in group_vars/* or alternatively in the role’s roleName/default/ directory.

(Bobby Durrett) I am working on upgrading an Oracle database from 11.2.0.4 to 19c and migrating it from HP Unix to Linux. This 15-terabyte database is too large to copy from the old to the new system during our normal weekend downtime window.

(Jeff Smith) As of this past Friday, the 15th of November, the ORDS tier portion of Oracle Autonomous Database (Serverless) – which covers both the commercial and Always Free versions of both Data Warehouse and Transaction Processing shapes, was updated to version 19.2.1.

(Andrej Baranovskij) I have implemented an app which includes TensorFlow.js API usage. First I will walk you through the app functionality and then will dive into implementation details.

(biju.thomas) When more people started using Autonomous Database services, more Admin tools are made available as well. When ADW was introduced, all the DBA had for monitoring or diagnosis or utilization was only the Service Console.

(David Fitzjarrell) There may be occasions when it’s necessary to investigate recent changes to the database and report what was changed, when and by whom.

(Bobby Curtis) Oracle GoldenGate finally has a GUI/Web Page interface to work with the product. This has been a long over due and welcomed feature that was initally released with Oracle GoldenGate Microservices in 12.3.

(Liron Amitzi) In Oracle GI 18c, the OCR and Voting disks must be located on ASM. A certified NFS or 3rd party shared file system is not supported for these files (you can keep your database on NFS or 3rd party shared FS, but not the OCR or the voting disks).

(Jeff Smith) At Oracle Code One this past September, I was inspired to do up a special edition of my SQL Developer tips & tricks talk.

(Uwe Hesse) After having installed a 2+0 Cluster in Hyper-V, now let’s expand that to a 2+1 Cluster.