The rumors started flying shortly after Oracle 12c was released with its new multi-tenant architecture that someday, there would be no Oracle databases that were not multi-tenant. Today, the Twitterverse has had a number of posts that reference this part of the Oracle documentation: https://docs.oracle.com/database/121/UPGRD/deprecated.htm#BABDBCJI So the non-CDB architecture is deprecated now. Better start learning …
January 22, 2015 archive
Jan 22
SQL Server Outage
Just like many Oracle DBA’s, I have to support other database platforms as well, which in my case does include SQL Server. My shop has regularly scheduled maintenance windows every Wednesday evening. Last night, our SysAdmins were replacing some disk in our production SQL Server box. The disk wasn’t one that SQL Server uses so …