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12c New Feature – RMAN RECOVER TABLE

One of the good new features in Oracle 12c is the ability to restore a single table or a single partition of a partitioned table from an RMAN backup via the RECOVER TABLE command. Prior to 12c...

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Minimal downtime rolling database upgrade to 12c Release 1

This note describes the procedure used to perform a rolling database upgrade from 11.2.0.3 to Oracle 12c Release 1 using a Data Guard physical standby database and transient logical standby database....

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Oracle 12c new feature In-Database Archiving

Very often in our databases we have some very large tables which have a lot of historical and legacy data and the challenge is deciding what is old data and what is current data and even if we do...

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Oracle 12c New Feature – Temporal Validity

The Temporal Validity feature adds a time dimension to each row in the table consisting of two date-time columns to denote validity of data. Data that is older or no longer valid or not yet valid can...

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Oracle 12c New Feature – Heat Map and Automatic Data Optimization

One of the main goals of an ILM (Information Life Cycle) policy is to reduce the cost of storage, improve performance and access times for both current as well as archived data and retain data long...

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Oracle 12c New Feature Heat Map and Automatic Data Optimization (ADO) – Part 2

In a previous post Oracle 12c New Feature Heat Map and ADO we had looked at the 12c new feature called Heat Map and ADO (Automatic Data Optimization) and how we were using compression level tiering...

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Creating an Oracle 12c Data Guard Active Standby Database

This note examines how to create an Oracle 12.1.0 physical standby Active Data Guard database using the RMAN DUPLICATE FROM ACTIVE command. We will be creating the data guard configuration in a 12c...

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Plugging an Oracle 12c pluggable database into a Data Guard container database

In a previous post we had seen how to setup and create an Oracle 12c Data Guard Physical Standby Database. Remember Data Guard is set up at the CONTAINER database level and not at the PLUGGABLE...

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Using GoldenGate 12c with an Oracle 12c Multitenant database

This note illustrates an example of using GoldenGate 12c with Oracle 12c Multitenant Container databases. While in most ways, Oracle GoldenGate operates in a multitenant container database the same way...

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GoldenGate 12c New Feature – Credential Store and USERIDALIAS

The ADD CREDENTIALSTORE is a new command in Oracle GoldenGate 12c. The credential store eliminates the need to specify user names and clear-text passwords in the Oracle GoldenGate parameter files. It...

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GoldenGate 12c New Feature – Integrated Replicat

One of the new features in Goldengate 12c is the Integrated Replicated or Integrated Apply feature. Note that Integrated Extract was introduced in GoldenGate 11g  to go along with what is now termed as...

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12c GoldenGate New Feature – Coordinated Replicat

In one of the the earlier posts we had discussed the GoldenGate 12c Integrated Apply or Integrated Replicat feature. It enables high volume transactions to be applied in parallel. But it was only...

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Oracle Database 12c New Feature – Data Redaction

Data Redaction is one of the new Advanced Security features introduced in Oracle Database 12c. It basically shields sensitive data from the application end users and this is done on the fly without any...

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Goldengate 12c – Configuring CDC between an Oracle 12c Multitenant Container...

This note describes the process of configuring a initial data load job as well as Change Data Capture from an Oracle 12c pluggable database source and a MS SQL Server 2012 target database. Download the...

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GoldenGate real-time replication from Active Standby Database to SQL Server...

This note describes how to run an Initial Load along with Change Data Capture from a source Oracle 11g R2 Active Standby database (ALO Archived Log Only mode capture) to a MS SQL Server 2012 target...

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GoldenGate Initial Load Methods Oracle source to SQL Server 2012 target

In this post we will look at three different methods of performing an initial data load from an Oracle 11g source database running on an HP-UX IA64 platform to a SQL Server 2012 target database hosted...

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Mask sensitive data using the 12c Cloud Control Data Masking Pack

In this example we will see how to mask sensitive data in a table using the Data Masking Pack which is included (as a separate licensed option) in Oracle 12c Cloud Control. We create an Application...

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GoldenGate change data capture and replication of BLOB and CLOB data

We will look at an example of GoldenGate replication of a table having a BLOB column and how an INSERT and UPDATE statement on the table with BLOB data is handled by GoldenGate. We create an APEX 4.2...

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GoldenGate and Virtual Memory – CACHEMGR CACHESIZE and CACHEDIRECTORY

After a recent Oracle GoldenGate installation at a client site running on Solaris 11, we observed memory related errors in the GoldenGate error log like the ones mentioned below as well as extract...

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Adding new tables to a GoldenGate Extract and using the TABLEEXCLUDE parameter

At one of my recent client sites, there was a requirement to enable GoldenGate Change Data Capture for a schema with over 800 tables and also application tables were frequently added which also...

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