RAC

Upgrading clustered Grid Infrastructure to 12.1.0.2 from 12.1.0.1.3

Oracle 12.1.0.2 is out, after lots of announcements the product has finally been released. I had…
Runtime Load Balancing Advisory in RAC 12c-addendum

A reader asked an interesting question yesterday with regards to the previous post on the subject:…
Runtime Load Balancing Advisory in RAC 12c

This is a follow-up on yesterday’s post about services in the new 12c database architecture. After…
RAC and Pluggable Databases

In preparation of the OUGN Spring Seminar and to finally fulfill at least a part of…
Playing with Application Continuity in RAC 12c

One of the more interesting features in Oracle 12c RAC is application continuity. Why do I…
Applying PSU 12.1.0.1.1 in the lab environment

Since the first patch for Oracle 12c has been made available I was of course keen…
Adding a node to a 12c RAC cluster

This post is not in chronological order, I probably should have written something about installing RAC…
An introduction to Policy Managed Databases in 11.2 RAC

I just realised this week that I haven’t really detailed anything about policy managed RAC databases.…
The tale of restoring the OCR and voting files on Linux for RAC 11.2.0.2

As part of a server move from one data centre to another I enjoyed working in…
A day at Cisco’s labs and an introduction to the UCS

I recently had the immense pleasure of visiting Cisco’s labs at Bedfont Lakes for a day…