Tim Hall

Oracle Cloud World is happening, which typically means lots of announcements. One of the welcome announcement was the release of Oracle 23c on OCI Oracle Base Database Service, so there is a production version generally available… Sort of… Why do I say “sort of”? OCI Oracle Base Database Service This is a single cloud service, … Continue reading "Oracle Database 23c Generally Available – Sort Of"

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Oracle just announced the expansion of their partnership with Microsoft to deliver Oracle database services in Azure. You can read the blog post here. Oracle and Microsoft expand partnership to deliver Oracle database services in Azure This is a very interesting development for a number of reasons. Here are some of my thoughts… The database … Continue reading "Oracle databases on other clouds?"

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In a recent post I mentioned using a scratchpad to record everything I do. As part of that process I try to make regular use of the UNIX/Linux “time” command to record elapsed times of long running commands. It’s really simple to use. All you do is put “time” in front of the command and … Continue reading "UNIX/Linux Time Command : Record elapsed time"

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Followers of the blog know I’m a big advocate for writing things down. The main reason I do this is because I want a record of everything I do. I rarely type a command directly into the command line. I nearly always type it in a scratchpad first. Currently I have 67,250 lines in my … Continue reading "Using a scratchpad…"

The post Using a scratchpad… first appeared on The ORACLE-BASE Blog.Using a scratchpad… was first posted on September 13, 2023 at 7:45 am.
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Just a little note about something that rubs me up the wrong way. I quite often get messages with the word URGENT in the subject or text. I scan through the content, and if it doesn’t seem truly urgent to me, I put it at the bottom of my list of things to do. Why? … Continue reading "URGENT : Why you should {almost} never put URGENT in your message"

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Someone on YouTube asked me some general questions about my experience of Vagrant, so I thought I would write them down as a blog post. Could you share the story of when and how you first encountered Vagrant, and how did you feel about it at the time? I was quite late to the party. … Continue reading "Answering some questions about Vagrant"

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Recent events have made me think about this post again… Software Vendors I can’t explain how much I despise being forced to use a GUI to do something that could be scripted. If you are a software vendor, please make sure you offer some form of scriptable API to interact with your product, and make … Continue reading "The case against GUIs (again)…"

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Oracle VirtualBox 7.0.10 VirtualBox 7.0.10 was released a few days ago and I finally got round to trying it. The downloads and changelog are in the usual places. I’ve installed it on my Windows 10 and 11 machines with no drama. For the previous release I had some issues with Windows 10. I had to uninstall then reinstall it to … Continue reading "Oracle VirtualBox 7.0.10, Vagrant 2.3.7 and Packer 1.9.2"

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We recently had an issue, which I suspect was caused by overlapping CRON jobs. By that I mean a CRON job had not completed its run by the time it was scheduled to run again. CRON If you’ve used UNIX/Linux you’ve probably scheduled a task using CRON. We’ve got loads of CRON jobs on some … Continue reading "When Overlapping CRON Jobs Attack…"

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Upgrading a database is not about the technical side of things. It’s about the planning that is required. I can upgrade a database in a few minutes, but the project to upgrade all the environments for a specific application can take months to complete. In this post I want to discuss some of the issues … Continue reading "Planning our next Oracle database upgrades. A customer perspective…"

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Cast your mind back to the olden days of Oracle 18c, where one of the new features introduced was read-only Oracle homes. I wrote about it here. Read-Only Oracle Homes in Oracle Database 18c What was the problem? Mixing executables, log files and configuration files is a really bad idea. Configuration files tend to have … Continue reading "The rise and fall of read-only Oracle homes"

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Every time there is a new database release on the horizon it’s worth looking at the deprecated and desupported features in that release, so you can start planning for the future. Here is the full list from the documentation. Behavior Changes, Deprecated and Desupported Features for Oracle Database I’m going to comment on a few … Continue reading "Deprecated and Desupported Features in Oracle Database 23c"

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If you take a look at the database documentation you will notice there has been a change. The new “Redwood” look and feel has been applied. I thought I would give my opinion, for what it is worth. Remember, these are my first impressions. Change is always bad! As soon as you change something, people … Continue reading "Oracle Documentation : The Redwood Look & Feel"

The post Oracle Documentation : The Redwood Look & Feel first appeared on The ORACLE-BASE Blog.Oracle Documentation : The Redwood Look & Feel was first posted on June 16, 2023 at 8:55 am.
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The RHEL distribution is still really popular in the enterprise Linux market. The stats sometimes look worse because the users are split across both RHEL and all of its many clones, but it still represents a massive chunk of the enterprise market. With that in mind, why are RHEL upgrades still so unreliable? My history … Continue reading "Why are RHEL/Oracle Linux upgrades still so unreliable?"

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Warning. Rant mode enabled… It’s over a year since Oracle Linux 9 was released and we still haven’t seen any certifications of Oracle products on it. What is going on? Check out the really important update at the end of the post. Setting the scene Here are the current support dates for Oracle Linux. Release … Continue reading "Oracle product certifications on Oracle Linux 9. What is going on?"

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I’ve written previously about writing and motivation, but I wanted to say something about self-inflicted demotivation, which is something I’ve been guilty of a number of times. As you will probably know, I write a lot of posts about Oracle technology, but I’m not equally interested in every feature of the Oracle database. Sometimes this … Continue reading "Writing Tips : Don’t get blocked by a post you don’t want to write"

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Fedora 38 was released recently. Here comes the standard warning. Here are the usual things I do when a new version of Fedora comes out. This is not a recommendation. I just like messing about with this stuff, as explained in the first link. I pushed Vagrant builds to my GitHub. If you want to … Continue reading "Fedora 38 and Oracle"

The post Fedora 38 and Oracle first appeared on The ORACLE-BASE Blog.Fedora 38 and Oracle was first posted on April 22, 2023 at 8:42 am.
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VirtualBox 7.0.8 maintenance release has arrived. The downloads and changelog are in the usual places. I’ve installed it on Windows 11 machine with no drama. I’ll be running my Packer builds of all my Vagrant boxes later today, which you can find on Vagrant Cloud here. I’ll be doing lots of testing over the next few days as I add … Continue reading "VirtualBox 7.0.8"

The post VirtualBox 7.0.8 first appeared on The ORACLE-BASE Blog.VirtualBox 7.0.8 was first posted on April 19, 2023 at 1:37 pm.
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It’s been a couple of weeks since Oracle 23c Free was released. I’ve already put out a getting started post to help people start their journey, but I wanted to say something about why, in my opinion, you should start learning 23c now, rather than waiting. Learning stuff takes time I’ve written some tips about … Continue reading "Oracle 23c Free : Why start learning now?"

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You may have noticed the flurry of posts about the new Oracle Database 23c Free Developer-Release. In summary this is similar to Oracle 23 XE, but it is a developer release, so it’s not the GA version of Oracle 23c. As a result all the functionality in this release is subject to change as things … Continue reading "Oracle Database 23c Free Developer-Release : Getting Started…"

The post Oracle Database 23c Free Developer-Release : Getting Started… first appeared on The ORACLE-BASE Blog.Oracle Database 23c Free Developer-Release : Getting Started… was first posted on April 4, 2023 at 10:44 am.
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