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

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

Oracle Trace File Analyzer (TFA) Upgrade to Address Log4j Vulnerability

As you are all aware all organizations allocating more time to address this Log4j vulnerability, every DBA/Infrastructure… Read more

KVM Lab inside a VirtualBox VM (Nested Virtualization) using Vagrant

Intro It has been a while since I wanted to blog about nested virtualization, but the good news is I now have a vagrant build… Read more

How to upgrade AHF (TFA and ORACHK/EXACHK) using ahfctl (and patch it for Log4j vulnerability with version 21.3.4.0.0)

Recently we upgraded the Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) to the latest version and I found the new AHFCTL command line… Read more