2021

Goodbye 2021, welcome 2022 – and some thoughts

Posted on December 31, 2021 by Off Topic 8

The second pandemic year is ending – and a new year starts. It’s time to say Goodbye 2021, welcome 2022 – and some thoughts …

Goodbye 2021

This was kind of a strange year, wasn’t it? It least for me it was. As for many of you, a lot of things were quite similar to 2020 when the pandemic took off. For me this meant zero business related travel. Which was not very amusing on one side since I really miss customers, colleagues, my team – and those Oracle nerds out there. I’ve got …

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HrOUG – Croatia: “It is fixed in Oracle 23c??”

Posted on October 6, 2021 by 0

https://2021.hroug.hr/eng/Program/Huh-It-is-fixed-in-Oracle-23c-Seriously-Or-how-Database-Development-at-Oracle-works

Huh? It is fixed in Oracle 23c?? Seriously? – Or how Database Development at Oracle works

Track

Database & Infrastructure

Date and time

Thursday, 14. October 2021., 10:20

Room

Hall E

Duration

45′

Have you every heard from Oracle Support “It will be fixed in 21c or 23c”? And wondered if you should upgrade now, and how you should upgrade when the release is not there yet?In this talk we will give rare insights into how Oracle Database Development works.We will explain why it takes more than a few minutes to complete a regression test suite, why you don’t

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Patching all my environments with the January 2021 Patch Bundles

Posted on January 20, 2021 by Patch Recommendation 40

Groundhog day on the upgrade blog. It’s time for my quaterly Patching all my environments with the January 2021 Patch Bundles blog post. And still no RAC and ASM. Sorry for that … too many virtual events and other tasks since months unfortunately.

Patching all my environments with the January 2021 Patch Bundles

Photo by Bofu Shaw on Unsplash

As usual, an important annotation upfront: I patch in-place due to space issues. But in reality, you please patch always out-of-place with a separate home. Please see this blog post about how to apply the RU directly when you provision a new home with OUI.

Security Alert January 2021

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Cool Features not only for DBAs – Virtual Classroom Series No.7

Posted on January 11, 2021 by Workshop 0

Happy New Year to all of you. I hope you are all well. After an heavily active 2020 with more virtual seminars than ever before it’s time to start in 2021 with Cool Features not only for DBAs – Virtual Classroom Series No.7 on Jan 14, 2021.

Why Cool Features for DBAs?

Actually the idea is not new. And we’ve included some slides into our workshops already for quite a while. But there are simply too many cool features. Our focus is in features which usually don’t make it into advertising or …

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