What’s new with Oracle database 18.11 versus 18.12
This blogpost takes a look at the technical differences between Oracle database 18 RU 11 (july 2020) and RU 12 (october 2020). This gives technical specialists an idea of the differences, and gives...
View ArticleWhat’s new with Oracle database 12.2.0.1.200714 versus 12.2.0.1.201020
This blogpost takes a look at the technical differences between Oracle database 12.2.0.1 PSU 200714 (july 2020) and PSU 201020 (october 2020). This gives technical specialists an idea of the...
View ArticleAbout the oracle database and compiling and linking.
This blogpost is about how the oracle database executable created or changed during installation and patching. I take linux for the examples, because that is the version that I am almost uniquely...
View ArticleWhat’s new with Oracle database 12.1.0.2.200714 versus 12.1.0.2.201020
This blogpost takes a look at the technical differences between Oracle database 12.1.0.2 PSU 200714 (july 2020) and PSU 201020 (october 2020). This gives technical specialists an idea of the...
View ArticleWhat’s new with Oracle database 11.2.0.4.200714 versus 11.2.0.4.201020
This blogpost takes a look at the technical differences between Oracle database 11.2.0.4 PSU 200714 (july 2020) and PSU 201020 (october 2020). This gives technical specialists an idea of the...
View ArticleOracle database processes and waiting long in the supermarket
Hopefully I got your interest by the weird name of this blogpost. This blogpost is about sensible usage of an Oracle database. Probably, there are a lot of blog posts like this, but I need to get this...
View ArticleOracle database reliable message waits
This blog is about the oracle database wait event ‘reliable message’. It should be noted that normally, this should not be a prominent wait, and if it does so, the most logical cause would be something...
View ArticleHashicorp vagrant and the Vagrantfiles.
This post is about a fully documented but easy to miss feature of vagrant, which is the evaluation of the Vagrantfiles when a vagrant ‘box’ is started. As you can see, I wrote ‘Vagrantfiles’, which is...
View ArticleMy reasons for moving to Yugabyte
I am excited to announce that I have accepted a role at Yugabyte as ‘developer evangelist’. It’s not easy to leave the talented group of people that is Enkitec, of which many of them I call friends. In...
View Articlepgbouncer and slow server pool increase
This post is about an issue I ran into when trying to use pgbouncer in front of Yugabyte YSQL, the postgres layer yugabyte reuses for handling relational data. pgbouncer: https://www.pgbouncer.org...
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