SYSBACKUP and SYSDG permissions in Oracle 12c
Introduction In many companies there is a clear separation of duties for various Oracle Database related tasks such as administering ASM and backing up/restoring Oracle databases. In the past, DBAs us...

Introduction In many companies there is a clear separation of duties for various Oracle Database related tasks such as administering ASM and backing up/restoring Oracle databases. In the past, DBAs us...
Introduction Beginning with Oracle Database 12.1.0.1.0, DBAs started to work with Pluggable Databases. There were some large migrations of several databases from 10g/11g to 12c where they were consoli...
Introduction In the past, roles, system privileges, and table privileges were used to control the functionalities allowed to database users. However, roles and privileges don’t have enough granularity...
Introduction The need to communicate with external systems and exchange data made Oracle develop a way to connect to different Oracle databases to execute operations. Traditionally, whenever we wanted...
Introduction: In my previous articles we have seen concepts like “Application Containers” and “Proxy PDB”, which are new in Oracle Database 12cR2. With Application Containers, you can install applicat...
Introduction Oracle introduced a new cool concept called “Application Containers” in 12cR2 (12.2.0.1.0). I have already written about this topic in the article “Introduction to Application Containers ...
Dear Friends, I have started to write on a brand new blog "Clouds and Databases" that I created recently. On the new blog, I will be writing about different cloud technologies and databases. The bl...
El Tema Universal utiliza un conjunto de colores (esquemas) entre los diferentes componentes. Estos colores se pueden agrupar en dos paletas: colores generales y colores con estado. Colores generales...
We were in a situation very recently to run SQL Tuning Advisor against a bunch of SQL statements that appeared in the AWR’s ADDM recommendations report. The initial effort to launch SQL Tuning Advisor...
Here are some of the slides from our meetup on 11th May 2017. Ireland OUG Meetup May 2017 from Brendan Tierney The remaining slides will be added when they are available....
Introduction The Oracle Database 12c Release 1 introduced the Oracle Multi-tenant architecture, which allowed consolidation of multiple pluggable databases (PDBs) together in a multi-tenant container...
Hi, Recursive views present various data dictionary information in a readable form. In Oracle, real-time information can generally be monitored using the V$ dictionary views. Oracle tracks literally...