My fresh EM13cR2 installation showed me that there is a patch for the Weblogic environment available. This patch was released in July 2016: Patch Patch 23094292: WLS PATCH SET UPDATE 12.1.3.0.160719. This patchset has included 157 fixes and is a generic one. The patch is marked in My Oracle Support as recommended. OPatch has no to be updated. This patch is not an online patch, you have to shut down your running EM13cR2 server. This blog post describes the apply of the Weblogic patch set update in an Enterprise Manager 13cR2 environment running on a Oracle Linux server. Prepare Patch Set Update on EM13c Server The patch file has to be extracted. I have copied to file to my EM13cR2…
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OTN Appreciation Day: The Recyclebin
Tim Hall has initiated in his blog the OTN Appreciation Day, this is my contribution to this nice idea. My favorite database feature is not rocket since, not high available, it is very basic. It is the recyclebin. Since seven years I am working as teacher for Oracle architecture trainings for my company where new DBAs can learn the basics of an Oracle RDBMS. In this training, the participants have very different knowledge about a database. Some are working for years with the database and are here for a refresh, and some are newbies. But in every class there is one guy, who is wondering about the recyclebin functionality. This functionality has saved us a lot of time in the…
Read MoreConnect your Enterprise Manager 13cR2 with the Oracle Database Backup Service
In EM13cR1, it was the first time when the Oracle Database Backup Service was integrated . In Release 2 the configuration menu was extended, a storage container can be defined now e.g. for a better organization and overview of the backups. This blog post shows you how to configure the Oracle Database Backup Service in Enterprise Manager 13cR2 and how to prepare a database for a cloud backup. All you need is the Oracle Database Backup Service, a trial works too. Configure Service Settings Enter your domain and login information. Optional: Set a backup container. A backup container is an organiziation unit like a subdirectory on a server. Configure the Database Select the database which…
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