by Willie Gray | Mar 15, 2021 | Best Practices, Database Security, Oracle, Oracle DBA, Uncategorized
It was very cold and early on a Monday morning when I received a call from one of my fellow system administrators. He reported that one of our production databases would not come back online after the server hosting the database was restarted. Most DBAs would start...
by Scott Loudon | Feb 16, 2021 | Best Practices, Database Patch News, database patching, Database Security, Oracle, Oracle DBA, SQL Server
Welcome to Database Patch News, Buda Consulting’s newsletter of current patch information for Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server. Here you’ll find information recently made available on patches—including security patches—and desupported versions. Why should you care...
by Robert Buda | Jan 22, 2021 | Best Practices, Oracle DBA, Uncategorized
We all know that database projects and other technical/IT projects often fail. They are never completed, the results fall far short of expectations, nobody uses the new application, and so on. Why? At the end of the day, if we look beneath the surface-level issues,...
by Willie Gray | Jul 10, 2020 | Backup and Recovery, Best Practices, Database, Oracle DBA
When it comes to Oracle database administration, one of the most revered parts of your database structure is the fast recovery area (FRA). This is an Oracle managed area where DBAs usually store some of the following files: Redo logs Archive logs Flashback logs...
by Scott Loudon | Apr 22, 2020 | Backup and Recovery, Database, Oracle, Oracle DBA
One of our customers had issues over the past several months with Oracle Active Data Guard replication to a standby server. The database on the standby server would intermittently fall out of sync with the database on the primary server, and log files were not...
by Willie Gray | Mar 20, 2020 | Backup and Recovery, Best Practices, Oracle DBA
I’m sure you have heard—if not experienced—the following scenario. A student is working on a research paper and suddenly her PC crashes. Because she did not follow the golden rule of saving your document every sixty seconds, she lost hours of work. You would think by...
