RAC

A mostly academic post about startup triggers and when they fire in Real Application Clusters

Out of curiosity I wanted to figure out when and how often startup triggers fire in…
JDBC & the Oracle Database: if you want Transparent Application Failover you need the OCI driver

This is the second article in the series of JDBC articles I’m about to publish. It…
Creating a RAC 12.1 Data Guard Physical Standby environment (3b)

Huh, what is this I hear you ask? Part 3b? Oracle 12.1? Well, there’s a bit…
Little things worth knowing: Executing RDA on RAC

Result! I have finally been able to gather a complete RDA (Oracle Remote Diagnostic Agent) output…
Creating a RAC 12.1 Data Guard Physical Standby environment (1)

I have just realised that the number of posts about RAC 12c Release 1 on this…
Trouble with multiple SCAN listeners in 12c Release 1

UPDATE 28-JUL-2016: the problem – as stated by Anil in the comments section – seems to…
Fixing a problem with the ASM spfile preventing RAC 12c from starting

This is a little note to myself on how to fix a corrupt spfile in clustered…
Installing Oracle 12.1.0.2 RAC on Oracle Linux 7-part 2

In the first part of the article series you could read how a kickstart file made…
Adventures in RAC: gc buffer busy acquire and release

It seems that I’m getting more and more drawn into the world of performance analysis, and…
A first look at RAC 12c (part I)

I have recently upgraded my RAC 12.1.0.1.3 system to RAC 12.1.0.2 including the RDBMS installation. Currently…