Aug 25

ORACHKSUM v20.03 is out!

Today I’m releasing v20.03 of ORACHKSUM! Now the tool was updated with latest MOAT369 API and also received all the July-2020 CPU cycle dictionary updates. For the ones who don’t know what I’m talking about, orachksum is a tool that scans your database for malicious internal code changes (like tampering your DBMS_OUTPUT PL/SQL code), comparing …

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Aug 24

LAOUC 2020 – Deep dive into Oracle Cloud metadata

Yesterday, 24th August 2020, I gave a session to LAOUC about OCI metadata! Abstract: With more companies moving their environments to the Oracle Cloud, gaining access to its metadata is a critical task to keep track of your own environment. In this session, get a comprehensive understanding how you can fully “pull out” this information …

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Jul 14

OCI Volumes – What happens to Incremental backup when Full is deleted?

Those days, in one of my company mail threads, a colleague stated: “We have tested the restores, when the oldest backup is an incremental and prior full backups have been deleted. It works!” This is a pretty funny scenario. So I’ve decided to do some further investigations to understand what really happens in the background: …

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Jun 04

EM 13c installation fails with “Check the db edition – DB should be enterprise edition”

Those days, when trying to install EM 13c on my ExaCC database, the installation was failing with a “Check the db edition – DB should be enterprise edition” error.. Searching on My Oracle Support for this error, the closest I could find was “Bug 29492182 : Installing OMS fails: Check the db edition DB should …

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May 06

Exporting all usage and cost report from your Oracle Cloud at once

To track your tenancy cost and usage reports, Oracle made available from the OCI portal the capability of downloading files that are generate daily and uploaded to the bling storage bucket. However, it lack the feature to download all files at once for a specified timeframe. Note: To enable this, you require some policies in …

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