Thursday, March 13, 2025

Oracle database wallets for TDE, ZDLRA and External Authentication

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 One topic that I spend a lot of time on is "wallets" and the Oracle database. When working with multiple features in the database...
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Wednesday, March 5, 2025

Oracle DB release 23.7 includes "Select AI" with the DBMS_CLOUD_AI package

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 The latest release of Oracle DB23ai (23.7) now includes the promised packages for DBMS_CLOUD.   I'm not talking about the ADB release, ...
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Monday, January 20, 2025

Oracle DB 23ai in your datacenter

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 Oracle DB 23ai is available for Exadata and I've been spending a lot of time working on building some demos in my lab environment. Belo...
Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Listing Databases on an Oracle DB node

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 In this blog post I am sharing a script that I wrote that will give you the list of databases running on a DB node.  The information  provi...
Sunday, September 29, 2024

ZDLRA backups -- How do I know if they are Encrypted

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 The ZDLRA introduced a new feature with release 23.1 that can both encrypt backups (if they are not already encrypted from TDE) and  compre...
Tuesday, August 27, 2024

Oracle Backup Compression and Encryption layers explained

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 When working with customers who are applying compression and/or encryption to their Oracle DB backups, I found that it isn't always cle...
Thursday, July 18, 2024

DBMS_CLOUD Debugging with ZFS Object Storage

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 In the course of testing the DBMS_CLOUD functionality against OCI object storage on ZFS, I have wanted to perform debugging by looking at t...