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Welcome to all the brave souls that didn't scream and/or quickly scroll on when reading the title. I know a fair percentage of SurvivalBlog readers are concerned about OPSEC, but what about your electronic OPSEC? Is it as good as it should be? As good...

When it comes to Data Guard on a recent version, I will always use the Data Guard Broker. Not the Enterprise Manager; don’t get me wrong: Strictly Command Line with DGMGRL. It is for Standby Databases what RMAN is for Backup & Recovery: The...

If you are using RMAN to back up your database, you are already doing the right thing. However, RMAN does not take care of everything. e.g. it is not backing up the following things, to mention just a few. Oracle Home Grid Infrastructure Home Data...

We recently announced our 5.7.5 Milestone Release, yet another milestone on our road to 5.7 GA. The purpose of our milestone releases is to get community feedback and to ensure high quality on 5.7 from day one. This blog post gives the reader a high...

As an Python advocate and educator, I’m always looking for ways to make my job (and yours) easier. This list put together by Morpheus Data offers a ton of great resources for Python users (more than 25 tools specific to Python) and other DevOps and Sysadmins...