Oracle Database Backup Directly on Microsoft Azure Cloud Blob Storage using RMAN

We were using the Oracle Database Backup on a managed disk directly connected to the Virtual Machine (VM), then copy over… Read more

Re-Configuring Apex after host and DB SID change

There are certain instances when you will have to make changes on your apex server due to organizational requirements or… Read more

Script your RMAN Backups using Oracle External Password Store with the SYSBACKUP Privilege

As you may already know, scripting your RMAN backups and storing your connectivity credentials in the actual scripts is… 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

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

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