Martins Blog

2013

SQLPlus and white space in the output

I finally managed to work around My Most Annoying Problem (TM) with SQLPlus in my career. SQLPlus…
Playing with Application Continuity in RAC 12c

One of the more interesting features in Oracle 12c RAC is application continuity. Why do I…
Be aware of these environment variables in .bashrc et al.

This is a quick post about one of my pet peeves-statically setting environment variables in .bashrc…
Upgrading to Oracle Linux 6.5

This is a very short post to demonstrate how to upgrade to Oracle Linux 6.5. My…
Inside a RAC 12c GNS cluster

Based on some reader feedback I started looking at GNS again, but this time it will…
Applying PSU 12.1.0.1.1 in the lab environment

Since the first patch for Oracle 12c has been made available I was of course keen…
Clusterware and listener management gotcha in 11.2

I have come across an interesting situation recently and thought it was worth blogging about. My…
RAC in KVM is possible without iSCSI

(This post is for Jerry. He will know when he reads it) I have been a…
Support for Pluggable Databases in Enterprise Manager

Currently there is an interesting thread on the oracle-l mailing list about OEM 12c support for…
DBMS_FILE_TRANSFER potentially cool but then it is not

This post is interesting for all those of you who plan to transfer data files between…