Category: Oracle Database General

Oracle Database General

Dec 13

Playing with new Oracle Database 21c in your VirtualBox

Last week Oracle released the newest Oracle Database 21c. This is an Innovation release (not long term like 19c) that introduces many cool new features, including also the 20c new features which DB release didn’t happen: Oracle is mindful of the unprecedented economic and business disruption our customers faced in 2020. We decided to not …

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Oct 28

Oracle October 2020 Critical Patch Advisory – PL/SQL detailed changes

Oracle October 2020 Critical Patch Advisory changed objects performed by each database patch. For more details and the catalog, check the main post: Dissecting 201020 BP, PSU, RU and RUR What exactly changed for each? (click to see detailed line changes) 11.2.0.4 SYS.DBMS_PDB – PACKAGE BODY 11g (BP) 12.1.0.2 DVSYS.DBMS_MACADM – PACKAGE BODY 12cR1 (PSU) …

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Oct 28

Dissecting 201020 BP, PSU, RU and RUR

I am quarterly writing a post dissecting the changes implemented by Oracle CPUs so we can understand better the modifications implemented by Oracle in our Databases. The following patches were analysed: 11.2.0.4 11.2.0.4.201020 DB PSU 11.2.0.4.201020 Exadata Bundle Patch 11.2.0.4.201020 OJVM PSU 12.1.0.2 12.1.0.2.201020 DB PSU 12.1.0.2.201020 Exadata Bundle Patch 12.1.0.2.201020 OJVM PSU 12.2.0.1 12.2.0.1.201020 …

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Oct 03

How to access internal OCI DBaaS backup Object Storage bucket

This article will show how can you access the data that oracle stores in the internal hidden buckets, mainly used for “*aaS” backups. Update: Oracle has now an official tool for that: MV2BUCKET. It’s fully supported and available in the MOS note below. Consider using it instead of the manual approach:(OCI) mv2bucket – Oracle Managed …

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Oct 02

OCI-21500: internal error code, arguments: [kpcerecv: auth], [9], [], [], [], [], [], []

Those days, for one of my customers, I was having a bizarre oracle connection error, where the Oracle Client connecting using sqlplus was calling a package procedure and this error was being returned: [user@machine ~]$ sqlplus /@dbname SQL*Plus: Release 18.0.0.0.0 – Production on Thu Sep 10 00:07:43 2020 Version 18.3.0.0.0 Copyright (c) 1982, 2018, Oracle. …

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