Oracle reliability & performance engineering
Vendor-neutral, field-tested guidance for teams running mission-critical Oracle databases — on-prem and on OCI or Azure. Turning 3am incidents into boring, automated, observable systems.
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- HA & DR
RAC, Data Guard, RMAN, failover & recovery
- Performance
AWR/ASH, wait events, SQL & optimizer tuning
- Cloud & Migration
OCI, Azure, Exadata, 23ai/26ai, on-prem → cloud
- Security & Ops
Hardening, patching, auditing, automation
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The Oracle Hardening Checklist That Actually Matters
Oracle hardening without the busywork: close default-password accounts, tame PUBLIC and ANY grants, lock the listener, encrypt at rest, and audit what matters.
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OCI vs Oracle Database@Azure: Where Should Your Oracle Database Live?
OCI native, Oracle Database@Azure, or the Interconnect? Choose by where your apps live, latency, Azure commitments (MACC), and cost — with a decision tree.
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Oracle RMAN Recovery Runbook: Restore, Recover, Prove It
Restore rebuilds datafiles; recover rolls them forward. The RMAN runbook for a lost datafile, controlfile, bad DELETE, or corrupt block — proven, not hoped.
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Your First Oracle Autonomous Database on OCI Always Free
Stand up a real, managed Oracle Autonomous Database free on OCI Always Free in minutes — provision it, connect with no client install, and try AI Vector Search.
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Oracle Patching, Demystified: CPU, RU, RUR — and What Changed in 2026
Oracle patching in 2026: what a Release Update is, why RUR is dead, the new monthly CSPU and MRP, and how to apply it with OPatch and datapatch — no outage.