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Meet ALIS: an Oracle AutoUpgrade workbench that turns your plan into a configuration and an ordered runbook. Runs locally in your browser, with an offline edition and editable examples.
One of my customers experienced a weird behavior – thousands of child cursors with LANGUAGE_MISMATCH When I looked closer, into V$SQL_SHARED_CURSOR.REASON I saw something puzzling: While this part is normal: Be
A year ago I described the basics of checkpoint queue latches: After writing that article, I attended an excellent lecture by Mike Dietrich and Daniel Overby Hansen about noisy neighbors in a multitenant enviro
I know, I know – AI is stupid… but we shouldn’t be and LLM is a tool that we should get familiar with. That’s why JAS-MIN gets integration with AI in two modes – one-time batch processing and backend assistant.
We have no idea when Oracle 23ai will be released on premises. And it is a shame, since this database is offering a lot of great features that you probably would like to learn! One of the solutions is to use Or
I know I know, it’s getting boring when I constantly talk and write about an evil KVM admin, but tomorrow starts our first meetup with IBM and they are going to explain why my hacks won’t work in Power environm
Not having Diagnostic Pack sucks. But event if you have it, it is not that obvious that you will be able to visualize properly the data and perform a meaningful analyze. That’s why I have created JAS-MIN! A lit
More and more customers are using fancy security tools like CyberArk or other solutions based on Windows RDP with turned off or limited possibility of copy/paste functionalities. And I get it. Security is reall
This article is true for Oracle 19.19 and 19.23 on ARM. On x86_64 there’s something funny going on with location of the buffer address in the private memory (finding appropriate register at kcbklbc call)- I nee
This is a pain in the ass. You try to import something from a newer database and you hit the error that your timestamp is not good enough! Even tho you have no timestamp datatypes in the dump… The whole case wa
We are continuing our journey as an evil KVM administrator who wants to mess with a tenants virtual machines. This time we will modify a binary execution code path by changing machine code opcodes in a running
Shit happens. We had recently another customer who can relate to that absolute truth – after a serious storage problem, they managed to restore only data files from one mount point. In theory they were lucky be