I am busy installing the latest version of the Oracle Enterprise Manager. Obviously I need a database for this. In order to protect my resources in the Oracle VM image that use I switched off all extra Database options. Among others the Partitioning option is offered. Well - during the installation of the OEM I found out the hard way that the Partitioning option is required for the database. I know that the OEM creates a lot of partitions - which will then get emptied during the data consolidation process. I happened to forget this. The funny thing is that the OEM installer checks this and comes back with a warning box, stating: Using the Partitoning option is strongly recommended. Being a wise guy I tried to ignore this. But when Oracle says that they STRONGLY RECOMMEND something they mean it. So I am deinstalling and reinstalling the database software as I write this ;-)
Some of the stuff I do for a living. This mainly concerns working with Oracle Databases and Application Servers. Lately I picked up AWS, Azure and OCI.