11g Release 1

Little things worth knowing: auto-DOP or hint-which one takes precedence?

This is just another short post about one of the little things worth knowing. Assume you are…
WARNING: FAILED to load library: /opt/oracle/extapi/64/asm/orcl/1/libasm.so

This post is long overdue, and it’s as much a reminder to myself as it is…
A more user friendly multipath.conf

Update The below described changes to the device uid, gid and mode have been deprecated with…
ASM normal redundancy and failure groups spanning SANs

Julian Dyke has started an interesting thread on the Oak Table mailing list after the latest…
11.1 GC agent refuses to start

This is a follow-up post from my previous tale of how not to move networks for…
Patch 10270073 – 11.1.0.1.2 Patch Set Update for Oracle Management Service

Today is patch day – on my current site we are having quite a few problems…
Adding storage dynamically to ASM on Linux

Note: This discussion is potentially relevant only to OEL 5.x and RHEL 5.x- I haven’t been…
Huge Pages and Linux-Real World example

A common situation for many DBAs: all over sudden you are tasked to look at a…
Archivelog retention policy changes in RMAN 11g

UPDATE 221103: Oracle 11.2 is effectively out of support, this article is now archived and should…