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The difference between a direct grant and a role in PL/SQL

This is a quick post about beginning Oracle PL/SQL development. Long story short, there is a…
Moving OCR and voting disks to block devices in CRS 10.2

Anyone to suggest a shorter title for this: you are welcome to comment! Initially I wanted…
Patching CRS to 10.2.0.5

A small blog post about patching CRS 10.2.0.1 to 10.2.0.5 instead of applying the latest PSU…
Thousands of core dumps in $OMS_HOME

I have been asked to debug a problem with another office’s Grid Control 10.2.0.5 setup. In…
tnsping segmentation fault with 10.2 client

The tale of a very interesting problem with a segmentation fault on RHEL 5.3 64bit when…
PRKP-1061, CRS-2518 and CRS-0219 with 10.2 RDBMS and 11.2 CRS

Couldn’t find a better title for this, but hopefully makes it easier to locate the problem…
Compiling PHP 5.3.2 for Oracle 11.2 and Apache 2.2.3

httpd,apache,oci8,php5
Change SCAN post installation

A quick note to myself on how to change the SCAN from /etc/hosts to DNS. I…
ORA-604 when starting the database

Interesting scenario this morning with a development database. There is no specific monitoring in place for…
Huge Pages and Linux-Real World example

A common situation for many DBAs: all over sudden you are tasked to look at a…