Which Edition of Oracle RDBMS is Right for My Business?

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? Oracle’s editions and features can be a bit overwhelming. This post shares some key information that I hope will make your choice easier.

Oracle Data Encryption Options

Oracle offers various authentication and audit features to protect data from unauthorized access. But what about data at rest in operating system files, backups or other storage media?

Database Patch News — November 2019 (Issue 1)

Welcome to Database Patch News, Buda Consulting’s monthly newsletter of current patch information for Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server. Here you’ll find information on available patches—including security patches—and desupported versions made available during the past month.

Why Your Database Management Team Should Regularly Double-Check Your Backups

I’ve blogged before about the importance of checking database backups. Over 90% of new clients that we assess have backups that are either incomplete or totally unusable (true statistic!). The following story of a backup failure that happened recently—and the successful double-check by our DBA Scott)—provides a noteworthy example of how bad backups can happen […]

Why You Should Not Thin Provision Your Production Storage

Thin provisioning is a good option when used in a development environment or other scenario where only test data would reside on the virtual server. But it may not be not a good choice for production environments because of the high potential for downtime and data loss.

Time to Validate Your Database Backup

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 time the client was taking backups regularly, but […]

Privileges missing after Oracle full import

While performing a migration from Oracle 10g to Oracle 11g (on new hardware) recently,  we encountered a familiar frustration that I am surprised is not resolved yet. Privileges missing after Oracle full import. There are multiple ways to migrate a database from one version to another. One of the oldest and easiest ways is to […]

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