Phil Stout, Author at Virtual-DBA Remote DBA Services & Support - Certified Database Experts Remote Database Administration Tue, 02 Dec 2025 21:06:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://virtual-dba.com/wp-content/uploads/cropped-VirtualDBA-favicon-32x32.png Phil Stout, Author at Virtual-DBA Remote DBA Services & Support - Certified Database Experts 32 32 Understanding Transparent Application Failover in Oracle Database https://virtual-dba.com/blog/understanding-transparent-application-failover-in-oracle-database/ Thu, 17 Apr 2025 17:41:00 +0000 https://virtual-dba.com/?p=242805 SUMMARY: Transparent Application Failover (TAF) is an essential high-availability feature in Oracle Database, typically used in Real Application Clusters (RAC) environments, that automatically reconnects client applications to a healthy instance when a failure (like a network crash or server outage) occurs, ensuring minimal service disruption. By implementing TAF in conjunction with Oracle RAC, organizations gain […]

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]]> Online Table Redefinition with dbms_redefinition in Oracle https://virtual-dba.com/blog/online-table-redefinition-with-dbms_redefinition-in-oracle/ https://virtual-dba.com/blog/online-table-redefinition-with-dbms_redefinition-in-oracle/#respond Thu, 18 Jan 2024 22:29:42 +0000 https://virtual-dba.com/?p=242095 Understanding Online Table Redefinition The dbms_redefinition process, known as Online Table Redefinition, is a process that transforms a table’s structure, allowing database administrators to make changes such as adding or removing columns, modifying data types, or altering storage attributes without requiring downtime. This is particularly useful for large and critical databases where minimizing disruption is […]

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