ORacle 26ia comes on PREM
Finally the time has come, Oracle has announced the availability of Oracle 26 ai on Premisses for January 20, 2026. Now the wait is over.
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The Wunderbaire AI Christmas tree 26 AI
You’ve probably always wondered why there is still no perfect Christmas. We have the answer: “because the Wunderbaire AI Christmas tree 26 AI was missing” – Until today. Because we spared no expense or effort in having the ultimate Waihnachtsbaum 26 AI styled by the best AI assistants, such as Grog (who unfortunately put too much rum in the tea), ChatGypsy, Herjemine and Claudia, and optimized by our co-pilot. The source of all joy is supplied with 100 meters of barbed wire to prevent the unique appearance from being disturbed by the unprofessionally attached balls. Instead of mundane LED lights,
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Oracle 19c Support until 2032
Oracle extends Oracle 19c Support for version 19c until December 31, 2029 (Premier Support) and until December 31, 2032 (Extended Support). See the “Oracle Lifetime Support Policy” here.
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Setup Oracle Database Link to MySQL
This Blog describes how to set up a Database link from an Oracle Database to a MySQL Database. As an example serves an Oracle Standard Edition Two Version 19c (19.14.0) Database with the Standard Edition High Availability (SEHA) configuration on Oracle Linux 8.
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Who is SYSTEM?
In many companies the DBAs – and not only them – are working with the user “SYSTEM“. Is that wrong? Not necessarily but you might what to check “who did what?” for auditing purposes. And the GDPR is pushing you to thing about if using build in users or security relevant build in objects is helpful.
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Are Database Templates useful?
If you create a database using dbca (Database Configuration Assistant) step 3 allows you to select one of two templates (Data Warehouse or General Purpose or Transaction Processing). Both of them have the checkbox Include datafiles enabled. If you choose one of them the database creation is easy and within less that 5 minutes the new database is up and running.
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Read-Only Oracle Home
Since Oracle 18 (with some restrictions) it’s possible to set the Oracle software installation directory <ORACLE_HOME> into read only. And with Version 21 this will be the default. So it’s time to get used with it – not with version 18c of course but with 19c and the patch set from october 2020 (19.9).
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Standard Edition High Availability
On May 7th Oracle released “Standard Edition High Availability” (SEHA). There has been a high availability gap so far because as you probably know Oracle RAC is no longer available for Standard Edition since Version 19.(see Blog “No RAC for Standard Edition“). In March Oracle announced that there will be an alternative and … Here it is.
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Oracle 12.2.0.1 Support Extended
April 15th was patch day again. New security patches, patch sets, release update and whatever they are named became available. On the same day Oracle announced that for 12.2.0.1 a “Limited Error Correction Support” will be offered. Limited Error Correction Support According to Oracle the reason for this support extension is to give customers more time to upgrade from version 12.2.0.1 to version 19. It doesn’t include version 18 or any other release. The support extension will start on December 1st 2020 and will last until March 31st 2022. And it only includes security patches and fixes for severity 1
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Data loss with Database Services
In one of my projects we had a disaster most recently: An application was connected to two databases simultaneously and propagated changes to both of them. But why was this possible? Why did we use two databases? And why is it possible for a service to connect to two databases – that shouldn’t work, should it?
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