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Oracle Database on Apple Silicon with Virtualbox 7.1
I blogged in the past about running an Oracle database for testing purposes on Apple Silicon. Initially with emulated Intel code here and then (when Oracle released its 19c database software for ARM) with UTM as a wrapper for the QEMU hypervisor here. In the meantime another possibility came up since Oracle released its type…
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What is the fastest method to connect to an Oracle database?
There are still applications around, which do connect to the database, do some stuff and then disconnect again. I.e. for each and every operation a logon to the database is necessary. This produces unnecessary overhead and is expressed in a high percentage of DB time taken by „connection management call elapsed time“ in the Oracle…
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Running an Oracle Database 19c on Apple Silicon (Apple Macbook Air M1)
By end of June 2023 Oracle announced the availability of Oracle 19c for the Arm-architecture (aarch64). Consultants and DBAs, who do use a Mac Laptop with Apple Silicon (M1 or M2), have waited quite a long time to run an Oracle database in a Sandbox environment on their Apple machine. The database software Oracle 19c…
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Building a transportable Oracle Sandbox environment for an Apple Silicon Laptop (MacBook with M1- or M2-processor)
Since Apple released their Apple Silicon Laptops based on the ARM processor architecture, it became difficult for Consultants with such a device to run their Oracle Sandbox environment, because the main Oracle products are running on the Intel architecture. Hence a virtual machine on an Apple Silicon MacBook cannot be used for e.g. an Oracle…
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Installing Oracle 23c Free developer release on Proxmox
Oracle provides an OVA (Open Virtual Appliance) file to install the 23c Free Developer Release on Virtualbox. An OVA file contains metadata and file elements in the Open Virtual Format (OVF) to package and distribute one or more virtual machines. The OVA-file provided by Oracle can also be used to import the Oracle 23c Free…
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Patching ODA to 19.18.: Error in sshd_config
I recently patched an Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) from 19.16. to 19.18. Detailed steps on how to patch to 19.18. are available here. During the update-server step I got the following error: So obviously something is wrong with sshd_config. If an error happens when running a job on the ODA with odacli then I check…
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Oracle: Is it possible to setup a system that a client (specific IP address) can only connect to a specific DB-User?
Problem description In a recent consulting assignment I got the following task: A server with a specific IP address (Application server or Oracle Client) should be able to connect to a specific DB-user only. E.g. a single application server responsible for reports should be able to only connect to a specific read-only-user in the database.…
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Considerations when backing up from the Oracle Standby Database (Data Guard) with rman to shared storage (NFS)
To reduce load on the Primary DB in a Data Guard configuration you may decide to do your rman backups from the Standby site. A very common approach today is to use NFS as the backup location, especially when using platforms låike Exadata Cloud at Customer. I recently had a case where both the Primary…
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Latency test from Client to Oracle DB: Minimum number of rows fetched in sqlplus and sqlcl
Some time ago I wrote a Blog on how to calculate the network latency fetching a row to a Client from an Oracle database. The tool I used was sqlcl, because it just requires Java and hence no Oracle Client needs to be installed. Some people executed the script provided in the blog with sqlplus…