Yes, no Oracle today. A very short blogpost about opening SQL Server Management Studio. It didn't open, only a splash screen pops up. Found the solution at DBA Stack Exchange, but thought it would be nice to summarize this in a blog-post. Logging gave no clue:...
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Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c and Always On Monitoring
In this cloud-era it’s almost weird to explore stuff on-premises, but I did…. In this case a slightly Higher Availibility configuration of Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) that doesn’t cost anything, is not disruptive to the existing configuration and gives a tiny...
SQLDeveloper user preferences in a Citrix environment
Installing software in a Citrix-environment is sometimes a hassle. You have to handover the software, installation- and test-documentation to the scripters and hope for the best. In this case I handed over SQLDeveloper 19.4 as a pretty default installation, very...
Of Motorcycles, Databases and the Cloud
What has Oracle to do with motorcycles? At first sight: nothing at all! Except I’m a motor rider myself and I’m doing something with databases. But, inspired by a motorcycle-vlogger I made a mental connection between those area’s, where motorcycles can be replaced by...
Multitenancy: is a Proxy PDB part of the 3 free PDBs at 19c
As most of us know, Oracle Database 19c now supports up to 3 pluggable databases (PDBs) per container database (CDB) without requiring additional multitenant license—applicable for both Standard Edition (SE2) and Enterprise Edition (EE). This documentation clearly...
Stretched – paid – support for 11.2.0.4 Oracle db
A brief note this time. I checked the release-planning of the Oracle databases the other day (Doc ID 742060.1), and to my big surprise I noticed that the database version 11.2.0.4 will be supported till the end of 2022 through an added Error Correction level: ‘Paid...