11g Release 2

Performance testing with Virident PCIe SCM

Thanks to the kind introduction from Kevin Closson I was given the opportunity to benchmark the…
Tale of a platform migration Solaris 10 SPARC 10.2.0.5 to Linux 11.2.0.2.6

This is as much a note to myself how to do this in the future as…
Little things I didn’t know: difference between _enable_NUMA_support and numactl

In preparation for a research project and potential UKOUG conference papers I am researching the effect…
RMAN restore spfile from autobackup and compatible weirdness

Prompted by a recent interview I wanted to perform a little test with RMAN, and incrementally…
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…
RMAN duplicate and read-only tablespaces

This one is to be filed under the “little things I didn’t really know until now”…
RAC Attack at OUGN 2012

Quick post to bring the Virtual Box PDF to the attendees. Follow this link to get…
No more excuse not to use large pages in Linux

This is a very quick post to remind users of the importance of large pages. Before…
Oracle 11.2.0.3 client not relinking properly

One of the tasks I am performing quite regularly is to deploy Oracle software in form…
Did you know the cluvfy healthcheck?

While I was performing a three day seminar recently in Switzerland I came across this new…