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AWR Warehouse and SYSDBA
I’ve had a few folks ask me a similar question about the AWR Warehouse, occuring numerous times this week. “How can I limit what the user of the AWR Warehouse can view in the AWR Warehouse?” “How can I...
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Enterprise Manager and Services, Part I
The term “Service” is used to represent numerous objects within Enterprise Manager 12c. Although the most common reference to the term is related to the Oracle Management Service, (OMS), in this blog...
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Let’s Talk Database Replay- Part I
Database Replay is a feature in EM12c that a lot of folks are unfamiliar with, but once they learn about it, well, now then they figure out how valuable it really is. Where the ADDM Comparison Report...
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Everything I Needed to Know About Enterprise Manager I Learned at Collaborate...
Collaborate 2015 at the Mandalay in Las Vegas is just around the corner and the sheer amount of Enterprise Manager focused content is phenomenal! Oracle partners and power users around the world come...
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One Year With Oracle
Just over a year ago, it became public that I was leaving Enkitec for Oracle. Most folks had similar questions surrounding my decision, including my logic in giving up my ACE Director, an assumption...
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DBAKevlar at Collaborate 2015
Here’s a quick guide to my schedule of sessions at IOUG Collaborate 2015 for this year. I’m looking forward to seeing everyone next week, (I’ll be arriving on Saturday, so I really should say in a...
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Kickstarting After a Failed Addition to the AWR Warehouse
A common issue I’ve noted are dump files generated from the AWR Warehouse, but upon failure to transfer, the dumpfiles simply exist, never upload and the data is stuck in a “limbo” state between the...
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Renaming an Oracle Apache Target in EM12c
When installing Enterprise Manager 12c, the host value can come from a number of places for different applications/tiers. For most, it comes from the environment variable $ORACLE_HOSTNAME, (for...
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Metric Thresholds and the Power to Adapt
Metric thresholds have come a long way since I started working with OEM 10g. I remember how frustrating it could be if an ETL load impacted the metric values that had to be set for a given IO or CPU...
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EM12c Release 4, Health Overview
As part of the projects I work on at Oracle, it’s often ensuring that those customers that wish to deploy Enterprise Manager, (EM12c) to large environments, have the correct settings and are tuned to...
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Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Command Line Interface is Available!
The new Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Command Line Interface book is available via a number of locations, including Amazon and directly from Apress. If you are an EM12c fanatic or just learning and...
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EM12c, Rel. 4, OMS and OMR Health, Part II
There are a large number of “moving parts” when performance tuning or trouble shooting an Enterprise Manager environment. The new EM performance features, (available in release 12.1.0.4) are there to...
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Removing Redundant Startup/Restart for the OMS Service in Windows
I’ve been told many times that the OMS for EM12c can take quite some time to start on Windows. Some told me it took anywhere from three to up to fifteen minutes and wanted to know why. I’ve done some...
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Retrieving Bind Values from SQL Monitor in EM12c Release 4
I know others may want to know how to do this and I had challenges until Gagan Chawla, a teammate from Oracle, was kind enough to point out how to still get to this hidden, little gold nugget, so I’m...
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EM12c Management Agent, OutOfMemoryError and Ulimits
While enjoying the lovely Liverpool, UK weather at Tech14 with UKOUG, (just kidding about that weather part and apologies to the poor guy who asked me the origin of “Kevlar” which in my pained,...
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12.1.0.5 Hybrid Cloud Cloning
Last week’s release of 12.1.0.5 was a pleasant surprise for everyone out in the Oracle world. This release hit the bulls-eye for another cloud target of Oracle’s, announcing the introduction of...
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A First Technical Look At Hybrid Cloning in EM12c Release 5
The sales, support and technical teams were brought into the Denver Tech Center office to do some advanced training in Hybrid Cloud. There were many take-aways from the days we spent in the office,...
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Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance with EM12c, (ZDLRA)
I had a chance to take a closer look at the Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance, (ZDLRA) via Cloud Control today and really liked the dashboard that’s included in the plugin for the product. This post...
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Ten Things in Enterprise Manager to Improve a DBA’s Sleep at Night
Happy Birthday to me! So for my birthday, I give a present to you… As I want all DBAs to sleep better at night, here are the top ten features you can use in Enterprise Manager Cloud Control to offer...
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Consolidation Planning
More and more companies are consolidating environments. Server sprawl has a high cost to any business and finding ways to consolidate to more powerful servers or to the cloud is a productive...
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