11g Release 2

Slight 11.2.0.2 caveat with TTS and missing XMLDB

A small post about a problem I encountered a little while ago, quite interesting nevertheless. The…
ASM normal redundancy and failure groups spanning SANs

Julian Dyke has started an interesting thread on the Oak Table mailing list after the latest…
Summer Seminars

I am doing a couple of one day seminars with Oracle University, currently planned for Austria…
Copying the password file for RAC databases

This post is inspired by a recent thread on the oracle-l mailing list. In post “11g…
Troubleshooting Grid Infrastructure startup

This has been an interesting story today when one of my blades decided to reboot after…
DBCA failing to create RAC databases

This is a weird problem I ran in today. As part of an automation project the…
Cluster callouts to create blackouts in EM

Finally I got around to providing a useful example for a cluster callout script. It is…
Using wget and proxy to download patches from MOS

This is a rather quick note, but can be quite useful in certain situations. I currently…
RAC One Node and Database Protection

An email from fellow Oak Table Member James Morle about RAC One Node and failover got…
11.1 GC agent refuses to start

This is a follow-up post from my previous tale of how not to move networks for…