Field notes and deep dives from 14 years of Oracle practice.
RAC shines for HA/scale but requires network, storage, and patch planning maturity. Restart reduces complexity for single-instance deployments with reliable service management and automatic instance restarts. Here’s how I compare them in real life…
Read MoreA pre-patch checklist that actually prevents rollbacks: cell/compute versions, smart scan validation, storage alerts, IORM baselines, offload ratios, and critical post-checks you can automate.
Read MoreFrom top waits to SQL plan stability, this step-by-step workflow turns AWR reports into concrete performance actions with before/after validation and risk controls.
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