New kid on the block – let’s install “Database Release Update 12.2.0.1.170718”
At the DOAG database conference in May, Andrew Mendelsohn announced that Oracle will change the release schedule to annual releases and that patch naming will be changed to “Release Updates” (RU). The latter started – as announced – in July 2017 and now the first “Database Release Update” is available.Let’s start patching.
Oracle Restart not deprecated anymore
Oracle Restart ist the Clusterware for single instance systems. You can use it to run a single instance system with (almost) the same commands as a cluster. For example, Oracle Restart takes over Starting and stopping of listeners and database instances. On “normal” Unix/Linux scripts you have to provide scripts for that. With the release…
SQLDeveloper on Mac hung at Startup – JDK upgrade solved the issue
All of a sudden, SQL Developer on my Mac stopped working. When starting SQL Developer, it hung at the splash screen. No progress. Never … My first idea was to reinstall SQLDeveloper, which is not a great thing as the settings are kept, but then I checked the version of my JDK and found, that…