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Adding a node to a 12c RAC cluster

This post is not in chronological order, I probably should have written something about installing RAC…
Oracle Automatic Data Optimisation 12c

One of the seriously cool new features in the Oracle database 12c is the automated lifecycle…
Flex ASM 12c in action

I have been working on Flex ASM for a little while and so far like the…
DBA_USERS.ORACLE_MAINTAINED in 12c

Sometimes it’s the little differences that make something really cool, and I was wondering why this…
Trying the playground repository with Oracle Linux

I’m always a great fan of trying new things and Oracle has made it a little…
I am speaking at AIM & Database Server combined SIG

If you haven’t thought about attending UKOUG’s AIM & Database Server combined SIG, you definitely should! The…
Your first steps with the multi-tenancy option

You can’t possibly have avoided all the buzz around the multi-tenancy option until now so it…
Increasing the maximum I/O size in Linux

This post is really a quick note to myself to remind me how to bump up…
Troubleshooting high load average on Linux

This morning I was quite surprised to see one of my lab servers suffering from a…
An introduction to Policy Managed Databases in 11.2 RAC

I just realised this week that I haven’t really detailed anything about policy managed RAC databases.…