RMAN, Incarnations, and ME Part II: Recovery ignoring backups / ORA-19563: Datafile copy header validation failed for file

Intro In an ideal world, I believe, every backup script should be matched by 2 recovery scenarios. As this swiss OUC figure… Read more

RMAN, Incarnation, and ME Part I: “ORA-19906”: Recovery target incarnation changed during recovery

Intro If there is something I honestly always struggled with as a DBA, it’s RMAN incarnation. Both mystical like its name… Read more

Oracle 19c Pluggable Database Refreshable Clones

Intro Besides Long term release benefits, upgrading to a multitenant 19c Database will allow to completely ease the way… Read more

How to run Data Pump from a Pluggable Database as SYS when ORACLE_PDB_SID can’t work

Intro In Oracle multitenant architecture, the default database container upon connection is CDB$ROOT. But as of 18c,… Read more

Terraform for Dummies Part 5: Terraform Deployment On-Premises (KVM)

  Intro For a long time, Terraform was associated with deploying resources in the cloud. But what many people don’t… Read more

Get your Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) 21c up and running in Docker – The easy Way!

In April 2017, Oracle announced supporting 12c databases running in docker containers. However, this was limited to database… Read more