Missing OOW

For the second year in a row no budget available for work to send me to OOW.  Missing it, maybe next year.

Woohoo, got my Oracle 12c Certification certificate!!!

When my boss told me I needed to upgrade my Oracle certification due to a vendor requirement, I was a little concerned that I would have to take all five exams or however many they have these days since my last Oracle certification was 8i.  I was very happy to find out that I actually did still have the option to do the one test upgrade exam for 12c.  After a few weeks of some heavy duty exam cram sessions, I took the test and qualified for my 12c certification and this week I officially received my certificate.

OEM Real Time ADDM Monitoring During System Hang

Was able to use this handy feature of Oracle Enterprise Manager that I just learned of recently whilst studying for my Oracle 12c certification exam.  Pretty cool feature.  To get to it in OEM 13c navigate to your database instance, then click the Performance drop down menu and choose Real Time ADDM.  Enter your credentials and click Submit.  It's that simple!