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Watch Your FRA!

Watch Your FRA!

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...

Schemas, Databases and Instances—Defined and Discussed

by Robert Buda | May 12, 2020 | Database Architecture, Oracle, SQL Server

What is a schema as opposed to a database as opposed to an instance? And how do schemas differ between Oracle and MSSQL? Or between Oracle and PostgreSQL? Or between PostgreSQL and MongoDB? These terms can be confusing, but they are very important when planning a...
Which Edition of Oracle RDBMS is Right for My Business?

Which Edition of Oracle RDBMS is Right for My Business?

by Robert Buda | May 11, 2020 | Database, licensing, Oracle

Do I really need Oracle Enterprise Edition? Do I need Oracle Enterprise Edition in order to have a standby database? What version of Oracle do I need?   We get questions like these a lot. Oracle’s editions and features can be a bit overwhelming. This post shares some...
Oracle Active Data Guard Replication Error with Cisco Firewall: Root Cause and Workaround

Oracle Active Data Guard Replication Error with Cisco Firewall: Root Cause and Workaround

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...

Time to Validate Your Database Backup

by Robert Buda | Jul 8, 2016 | Backup and Recovery, Best Practices, Oracle, SQL Server

Another new client, Another bad backup I originally wrote this post in July but I am updating it today because it is so important.  Yesterday we did an initial Oracle Database Health Check for another new client and found yet again that their backups are useless. This...
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