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How To Create ACFS Mount Point?

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Oracle Clusterware manages ASM for Oracle RAC databases. But sometimes you need a cluster file system to store database files or other files. ACFS is a cluster file system. It’s based on ASM and is available on Oracle Clusterware. This blog shows how to create a cluster file system mount point.

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July 27, 2025

Managing PDBs in Data Guard Broker / RAC Environment

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Using Data Guard Broker in RAC environment is not difficult. But the Multitenant Architecture adds more complexity. This blog describes how to manage RAC services with PDBs in Data Guard environment.

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July 22, 2025

How To Add RAC Services?

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If you use RAC and Data Guard together, you can create RAC database services for different database roles (primary or standby). This blog shows how to do this.

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July 16, 2025

Using RedoRoutes Property in Data Guard Broker

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Data Guard Broker provides a default redo transport configuration for all primary and standby databases. You can use the RedoRoutes property to create a specific redo transport topology.

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July 9, 2025

How To Create a Standby With Redo Transport?

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During creating a new standby database, you have at first restore or duplicate the current primary database. During this time interval the archived redo logs could be removed by usual database backup job. This blog describes how to use Data Guard broker to transport archived redo logs during the creation of the standby database.

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July 7, 2025

How To Add a Large Standby Database Fast?

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There are some specific ways to work with a large database. This document describes creating a new standby RAC database using RMAN as fast as possible. The new standby database will be added to the Data Guard Broker configuration.

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June 30, 2025

Delete Online Redo Logs

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Sometimes you have to add larger online redo log files and delete the smaller ones. The attached script helps to delete the existing smaller log files.

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May 29, 2025

How to Add a Standby RAC Database?

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There are different ways to create and use a standby database. This document describes creating a new standby RAC database using RMAN. The new standby database will be added to the Data Guard Broker configuration.

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May 13, 2025

How to Add a Single Instance Standby Database?

There are diffent ways to create and use a standby database. This document describes creating a new single instance standby database using RMAN. The new standby database will be added to the Data Guard Broker configuration.

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October 2, 2024

How To Migrate Non-CDB 19c Database to PDB?

You can use Remote Clone and Refreshable Clone to create a new PDB from the existing non-CDB database in a few steps. The corresponding SQL statement would copy in parallel datafiles from the non-CDB database directly to the CDB database. The script noncdb_to_pdb.sql helps to convert the existing database data dictionary from non-CDB to PDB.

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September 29, 2024