With Release Update 19.27/23.8 (April 2025), Oracle removed the support to run a database with Small Pages on Engineered Systems. More details about this behavior change can be found in My Oracle Support Note Starting DBRU 19.27 and 23.8 Small Pages Are Not Allowed for RDBMS SGA In Exadata. (Doc ID 3081878.1). In this blog post I will show a way to still use Small Pages on an ExaCC environment.
Continue readingExaCC: The dataguard operation failed because the primary database wallet was not found
In this short blog post I want to write about an issue I ran into during the creation of a new Data Guard for a long-existing database.
Continue readingExaCC: Prepare Infrastructure for Exascale
In December 2024 Oracle released Exascale, a new storage architecture optimized for Cloud deployments, for Exadata Cloud@Customer environments. The initial release was limited to a very small number of OCI regions. Nowadays the availability of Exascale is not limited anymore. In this blog post I will go through all required steps to prepare an Exadata Infrastructure for Exascale. Before you start check the requirements in the documentation.
Continue readingExaCC: Continue failed upgrade of Grid Infrastructure to 23ai
In this blog post I will show how to identify and fix the root cause of a failed Grid Infrastructure upgrade to 23ai and how to complete the upgrade to get the VM Cluster back to the AVAILABLE state.
Continue readingExaCC: Upgrade Grid Infrastructure to 23ai using OCI CLI
In May 2024 Oracle announced the general availability of Oracle 23ai on ExaCC. In this blog post, I will upgrade an existing VM Cluster to 23ai using the OCI CLI.
Continue readingDrop database link in different schema
In this blog post, I will show different ways to drop a private database link of a different schema without connecting to this schema.
Continue readingExaCC: Database Service Events
In April 2022, Oracle released a new feature called Database Service Events for the ExaCC platform. This feature collects telemetry data of VM cluster nodes and sends a notification when a health issue is detected.
Continue readingExaCC: Single instance databases
When a new database is deployed on ExaCC, all nodes of the VM cluster are considered. But sometimes a multi-instance database is not required, for example for DEV or non-business critical databases. In this blog post, I will demonstrate how to handle this requirement with dbaascli.
Continue readingExaCC: Oracle Home deployment fails with DBAAS-60018
In this blog post, I am going to describe a strange error with OPatch while I was trying to deploy a new Oracle Home to one of our VM clusters.
Continue readingExaCC: DSI creation fails because of default patches
Since April 2021, ExaCC supports the creation of Database Software Images (DSI). This feature allows the creation of Golden Images of the Oracle Database software, which can then be provisioned to VM clusters. In this blog post, I will explain one reason why the creation of a new DSI can fail.
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