Read-Only-Oracle-Home: the follow-up post
After my recent post on read-only ORACLE_HOME I received some feedback and had some discussions with some colleagues on this topic. So I decided that another post may be helpful.
Oracle 18c/19c: Running a “read-only-Oracle-home” on a read-only-filesystem
In Oracle 18c Oracle introduced a new feature, called “read-only-Oracle-Home”. By configuring an Oracle-Home-directory of your RDBMS-installation as “read-only”, Oracle will place all the configuration files like spfile etc. outside the directory tree of your $ORACLE_HOME and will basically move them to “$ORACLE_BASE/dbs” and “$ORACLE_BASE/homes”. But if the software is “read-only”, can we place the…
Automatic Failback of a Service in a Oracle-19c-RAC-Database
High-availability of database services has been a feature of Oracle Real Application Servers since many versions. Bascially, when a database instance fails, a service which has got this instance as a preferred instance, fails over to another available instance. Unfortunately, the service did not fail back to the original instance as soon as the instance…