11g Release 2

An introduction to collectl

Some of you may have seen on twitter that I was working on understanding collectl. So…
So you don’t see any disks when trying to install ASM?

This is a post that highlights the difference between operating systems, but also the fact that…
Using Connection Manager to protect a database

I have known about Oracle’s connection manager (CMAN) for quite a while but never managed to…
Additional date for my Grid Infrastructure seminar in the UK

I was very pleasently surprised that Oracle University are offering another day for my “Grid Infrastructure…
Tuning Log and Trace levels for Clusterware 11.2

With the introduction of Clusterware 11.2 a great number of command line tools have either been…
A more user friendly multipath.conf

Update The below described changes to the device uid, gid and mode have been deprecated with…
How to use the RAC FAN Java API

I researched an interesting new feature available with Oracle 11g R2, the so called RAC FAN…
Offloading production backups to a different storage array

For quite a while Oracle DBAs have performed split mirror backups using special devices called “Business…
A quick word of warning about database PSU 11.2.0.2.2

I am playing around with the Grid Infrastructure 11.2.0.2 PSU 2 and found an interesting note…
Pro Oracle Database 11g RAC on Linux is available for Kindle

Addmittedly I haven’t checked for a little while, but an email by my co-author Steve Show…