Bryan's Oracle Blog

I have been playing with Apex for an internal application  Application Express is a great tool, and Oracle has an internal Apex environment...

ZDLRA and the FRA I often get questions around the FRA (Flash Recovery Area), and how it should be used when moving backups to the Z...

I wanted to write a post on one of Oracle's newest products (Well not that new).. The ZDLRA. The ZDLRA is often referred to as "Z...

Yes, I know I am more of a sofware geek, than a hardware geek, but I spent the day listening to all the goodness of the new Sparc M7 chip.....

When 12.1.0.2 came out, one of the features I wanted to play was the Cross-container functionality, and I finally had time to play with it....

I had an interesting problem last week with a customer who was performance testing on a new system compared to their current system. The ...

One of the biggest topics I talk to customers about is the monitoring of your exadata health.  The best tool for this is the Exachk (see ...