11g Release 2

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…
Clusterware and listener management gotcha in 11.2

I have come across an interesting situation recently and thought it was worth blogging about. My…
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…
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…
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.…
4k sector size and Grid Infrastructure 11.2 installation gotcha

Some days are just too good to be true :) I ran into an interesting problem…
Grid Infrastructure And Database High Availability Deep Dive Seminars 2013

So this is a little bit of a plug for myself and Enkitec but I’m running…
Limiting the Degree of Parallelism via Resource Manager and a gotcha

This might be something very obvious for the reader but I had an interesting revelation recently when implementing…
How to set up data guard broker for RAC

This is pretty much a note to myself on how to set up Data Guard broker…
Kernel UEK 2 on Oracle Linux 6.2 fixed lab server memory loss

A few days ago I wrote about my new lab server and the misfortune with kernel…