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How to create your own Oracle database merge patch

Originally posted on “Databases at CERN” blog

A little bit scary title, isn’t it? Please keep in mind that definitely it is neither supported nor advised method to solve your problems and you should be really careful while doing it – hopefully not on production environment. But it may sometimes happen that you end up with the situation where creating your own merge patch for Oracle database could not be as crazy idea as it sounds :).

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Nuances of Oracle Managed Files (OMF) and RMAN

Originally posted on “Databases at CERN” blog

Oracle Managed Files (OMF) have many advantages, but the fact that such files could coexist in the same database with manually added (and named) ones, could sometimes lead to confusion. Situation is made worse by the fact, that there is no straightforward way (at least of which I’m aware of…or rather was – please check the comment of Mikhail Velikikh visible on CERN’s blog) to say if the file is Oracle managed or not. Oracle documentation seems to confirm this:

The database identifies an Oracle managed file based on its name.

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