by Justin Bleistein | Apr 22, 2016 | Best Practices, Technical Deep Dives
This blog entry attempts to explain what I believe the Oracle relinking process is all about. Those DBAs who have been working with the Oracle database for a while and sysadmins who have been supporting Oracle database servers for a while have heard of this process....
by Justin Bleistein | Nov 11, 2015 | Best Practices
Sqlplus is the command line interface client for the Oracle database. It is used by DBAs to administer a database, by developers to develop server side software components, and others. It is one of the oldest Oracle tools and one of the most famous. Once connected to...
by Justin Bleistein | Sep 16, 2015 | Technical Deep Dives
Many Oracle environments run backups from their Dataguard physical standby database, if applicable. This is best practice in the field because it allows you to offload any overhead of a database backup to the standby database where no applications and/or users are...