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Starting from 01 June 2026, I’m opening a limited number of monthly retainer slots for organizations that need reliable Oracle Database expertise without the overhead of a full-time hire.

orafun.info is dead, but it got a facelift and found a new home at ora-600.pl/orafun.

Glad to see this amazing tool back! Thanks to @fritshoogland @ora600pl and @OracleSK for creating and supporting it.

Hey @DHLPaket
soviele Unfälle oder Krankheiten kann es gar nicht geben - so oft wie ich diese Nachricht hier sehe.

Arbeitszeitüberschreitung wäre auch wieder typisch alman, kann es hier aber auch nicht sein (9:25 - 15:58 Uhr).

Warum steht beim Grund nicht einfach „Kein Bock“?

The DBMS_CREDENTIAL.CREATE_CREDENTIAL procedure obfuscates passwords by encrypting them with a randomly generated AES-128 key.

The encrypted password and its encryption key are then base64 encoded and stored in the data dictionary.

Full details: t.ly/mp5bB

lgwr: You have the control

gdb: I have the control

NOPs and shifting trampolines is a fun on-going story all the time (e.g. 2-byte NOP, 0x66 prefixed and eBPF) 🤓

blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/ksp…

If you've ever felt the need to manually control adaptive lgwr features, this gdb script's got you covered: t.ly/lJIW1 😎

It lets you enable and disable adaptive scalable lgwr, fast log file sync, and log parallelism. Highly experimental, of course!

Example 👇

Hallo @Hosteurope

Für was gibt es bei Euch das KIS, wenn Ihr dort sowieso keine geplanten Wartungen mehr ankündigt oder Störungen veröffentlicht?

Any reason why the OVA image of the Oracle Database Free 23.x Virtual Appliance is not updated anymore?

23.8 is out for quite a time now but the OVA image is still 23.7 (23.7.0.25.01)?

Thank you.

@GeraldVenzl

Details about Spectre v2 Mitigations and speculative executions 🤓

blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/und…

Well 🧐

cloudsek.com/blog/the-bigge…

For geeks: two bpftrace scripts to map UTS event and component names to their internal ids.
t.ly/bGj0M
t.ly/ypKuv
Didn’t plan on it, but sometimes the rabbit hole chooses you... Turns out "oradebug doc" doesn't expose all trace events.

Profile Explorer is a tool for viewing CPU profiling traces collected through the Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) infrastructure on machines with x64 and ARM64 CPUs

github.com/microsoft/prof…

It continues to amaze me time and again what bpf based tracing makes possible … been looking into Oracle write consistency and update restart mechanics recently and tinkered with a bpftrace script to detect restarts system-wide and in real-time: t.ly/MgyQ- 🤓

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Interesting UPDATE restart variation:
Oracle may try to update a row during the ALL LOCKED phase that wasn't returned and locked in the prior LOCK phase (row 0 in the example).

A visionary leader for a nation, and look at what we got: @Bundeskanzler with his „Sparbuch“ and „debt fantasies“ 🫣

What is this new My Oracle (Cloud) Support Portal?

At first I only got errors when accepting the Terms of Use and now the bug database is gone?

How can I search the bug database in the new my Oracle (Cloud) Support Portal? All I see is "Knowledge", "Documentation" & Communities

Ahh I found it. After struggling with all the login errors you have a tiny little link called "Or sign in to other Oracle Support portals" (Support for Oracle Hardware, Software, and Managed Cloud) on the landing page. There you have the good old important information.

Since a few hours I am going down the CPU scaling governors/drivers rabbit hole - Oh boy this is a mess 😱

Love the term "Autonomous frequency scaling" with Intel CPUs and we all know what this means 😅

Can't set fixed perf mode with active intel_pstate

wiki.archlinux.org/title/CPU_freq…

Hey sweetie - Ghidra with XCOFF loader/support

blog.silentsignal.eu/2021/04/06/add…

It was a little bit messy to get it compiled and running with Ghidra on Kali 2024.3 but we can finally start digging