RAC

RAC 12c enhancements: adding an additional SCAN-part 1

Based on customer request Oracle has added the functionality to add a second SCAN, completely independent…
RAC and Pluggable Databases

In preparation of the OUGN Spring Seminar and to finally fulfill at least a part of…
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.…
Using Connection Manager to protect a database

I have known about Oracle’s connection manager (CMAN) for quite a while but never managed to…
How to use the RAC FAN Java API

I researched an interesting new feature available with Oracle 11g R2, the so called RAC FAN…
Adding user equivalence for RAC the easy way

This is the first time I am setting up a new 11.2.0.2 cluster with the automatic…
Installing RAC 11.2.0.2 on Solaris 10/09 x64

One of the major adventures this time of the year involves installing RAC 11.2.0.2 on Solaris…
Build your own 11.2.0.2 stretched RAC

Finally time for a new series! With the arrival of the new 11.2.0.2 patchset I thought…
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…
Change SCAN post installation

A quick note to myself on how to change the SCAN from /etc/hosts to DNS. I…