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Problems with RMAN and incarnations.
One day, not so very long ago, I was at a client site looking through the “passive” half of an AIX HACMP clustered server to tidy it up a little as we were experiencing pressure on space. There was a...
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Why ITIL CAB’s do not work as expected
ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) does work. It works very well and is becoming more and more widely adopted, but does not always work the way that management thinks it works. The...
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RMAN Incarnations revisited (11G)
Time for an update to a older post. I have previously talked about the annoyance of connecting to RMAN with a duplicated database where the DBID has not been changed. RMAN happily breaks the catalog by...
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Goldengate: Problems with character sets
One complication that you may face with replicating data using Goldengate (or other tools) is when your source character set is different to your destination character set. This is particularly true...
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Oracle Audit Part 4 – Unified Auditing Problem
Part 4 in a loose series of blog posts about auditing; the new Oracle 12 feature. Unified auditing. The intention behind Unified Auditing, as the name suggests, is to pull together all of the audit...
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GoldenGate unsupported types
When using GoldenGate there are few rules which need to be followed, and a very small number of unsupported datatypes. This is the excerpt from the GoldenGate 12.2 manual: 1.6.10 Non-Supported...
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