Oracle 18c/19c: Running a “read-only-Oracle-home” on a read-only-filesystem
In Oracle 18c Oracle introduced a new feature, called “read-only-Oracle-Home”. By configuring an Oracle-Home-directory of your RDBMS-installation as “read-only”, Oracle will place all the configuration files like spfile etc. outside the directory tree of your $ORACLE_HOME and will basically move them to “$ORACLE_BASE/dbs” and “$ORACLE_BASE/homes”. But if the software is “read-only”, can we place the…
Automatic Failback of a Service in a Oracle-19c-RAC-Database
High-availability of database services has been a feature of Oracle Real Application Servers since many versions. Bascially, when a database instance fails, a service which has got this instance as a preferred instance, fails over to another available instance. Unfortunately, the service did not fail back to the original instance as soon as the instance…
Licensing of Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
It is my impression that the licensing of Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control is not clear to everyone. Almost every month there is a question on https://community.oracle.com/ on this topic. Let’s see what the Oracle documentation says.