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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…
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…
Automatic log gathering for Grid Control 11.1

Still debugging the OMS problem (it occasionally hangs and has to be restarted) I wrote a…