Oracle Cloud: How to create a database link?

25. November 2020 Uncategorized 1
On my journey to the Oracle Cloud, I got another task to complete – to create a database link between two databases running on the Oracle Cloud. I will cover the use case of creating a database link between databases in a separate regions (Switzerland > Frankfurt). Database link between databases in a separate region ...

Oracle Cloud: Some issues with the old IMP & EXP utilities

14. November 2020 Uncategorized 0
As I am still helping one customer to explore the Oracle Cloud, I am learning myself something new every time and I am also facing some issues on that way. The last one is related to the old IMP and EXP tools. One of the automated steps is to export some tables from one database ...

Oracle Cloud: ORA-00018 maximum number of sessions exceeded -> Use DRCP

08. November 2020 Uncategorized 2
One of my customers want to try out the Oracle Cloud, and they started with a small database using the “Always Free” option. So far, so good, except one issue – from time to time, they are getting the error message “ORA-00018: maximum number of sessions exceeded“. Every Oracle DBA would first check the database ...