Top 5: blog posts of October 2025
November 3, 2025
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October came to an end, and dozens of excellent articles were published, nearly a hundred!, but to save you from having to spend hours separating the wheat from the chaff, here is my monthly list of what I consider to be essential reading, focused on those that offer fresh insights or deal with common issues in an easy-to-understand and entertaining way.
I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I do, so here it is, without further delay!
Recent Posts
Link to article published in Toad World, on how to apply an out-of-place patch to Grid Infrastructure, in rolling mode.
Link to article published in Oracle Technology Network, about how to use an Oracle Home clone to apply patches.
Link to article published in Toad World, about how to overcome the lack of archivelogs to synchronize a standby database in Oracle.
The enq: CF - contention event could be resolved with controlfile maintenance if the controlfile contains a large number of archived log records.
If the Oracle optimizer chooses inefficient execution plans on queries that use MAX or MIN, it is possible that this is bug 5611962.
What to do if you encounter the ORA-600 [kcrf_resilver_log_1] or ORA-600 [4193] error in an Oracle database.