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Building your own RAC system part III: Grid Infrastructure
UPDATE 221103: Oracle 11.2 is effectively out of support, this article is now archived and shouldn’t be referred to. This is the third part of my “build your own RAC” article series, and this time we are about to install and discuss Grid Infrastructure. After all the prerequisistes are met, some of which are described…
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Build your own 11.2 RAC system-part II: DNS & DHCP for GNS
UPDATE 221103: Oracle 11.2 is effectively out of support, this article is now archived and shouldn’t be referred to. Wow, I managed to cram 4 acronyms into the subject line, not bad for a Friday! The reason of this post is simple: I want to get Grid Naming Service (GNS) up and running on my…
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Oracle Restart 11g Release 2
Update 221111: This article was originally written for Oracle 11.2/Oracle Linux 5. It has not yet been updated and therefore shouldn’t be referred to. Oracle Restart is a new feature introduced in Clusterware 11.2. In simple terms it allows you to register resource such as ASM disk groups, ASM- and RDBMS instances in Clusterware in…
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Build your own 11.2 RAC system-part I: DNS
UPDATE 221103: Oracle 11.2 is effectively out of support, this article is now archived and shouldn’t be referred to. As many of you already know, Oracle released 11g Release 2 of the database for Linux x86 and x86-64. That is really cool and this time I don’t want to miss out on researching some new…
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RAC SIG 09/2009
The last RAC SIG meeting before the conference, in an Oracle building in Solihull near Birmingham. I was really delighted to see some of my friends after some time, and David had a great agenda for the day. Phil Davis’s deputy gave a refreshingly open service update, the main highlights were: 11.1.0.7 is the terminal…
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UNIX SIG 09/2009
I can’t say I like junction 15 a lot … simply too much traffic when moving off the M25. When arriving at the venue I was still quite early and had a chance to catch up with Phil Davis and Joel Goodman from Oracle. It seems that the credit crunch affected the numbers quite badly…
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Introduce Partitioning to a large table
The original post has been getting a little long in the tooth, and it’s no longer applicable to current Oracle versions. After a long debate with myself I decided to rewrite it; the old solution simply wasn’t tenable anymore. WARNING: Partitioning is an extra cost option on top of Enterprise Edition. Do NOT use partitioning…
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ORA-15186 with ASMLib and device mapper on Linux
Clumsy title but a problem that can slow you down. When creating ASM disk groups, you might not succeed, ASM complains with ORA-15186. UPDATE 221106: Oracle Linux 5/RedHat 5 and Oracle 11.2 are effectively out of support, this article is now archived and should not be referred to. ASM Filter Driver supersedes ASMLib, I have…
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Presentation Update
UNIX SIG Slough 09/2009 This is a novelty to me – going to present twice! The first presentation will deal with Linux Kernel settings and how to tune them, the second one deals with OpenFiler 2.3 and iSCSI on Linux. RAC & HA SIG 09/2009 And if that wasn’t enough I am also going to…
