I just completed another great training session held by the Oracle User Experience (UX) team. I am privileged to be part of the Oracle Fusion User Experience Advocates team, so Oracle is putting a lot of effort into teaching us about Fusion UX. One of the topics was the new ...
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Exadata database server Drive Configuration Verification
To verify the database server physical drive configuration, use the following command: /opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli/MegaCli64 PDList -aALL | grep "Firmware state" The output should be similar to for the disks: Firmware state: Online, Spun Up To verify the database server virtual drive configuration, use the following command: /opt/MegaRAID/MegaCli ...
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Desaster Recovery in the cloud, Part 2
In Part 1 we talked about some general requirements for setting up a simple-to-use disaster recovery solution for Oracle databases. Today, I built up the same inside the Amazon cloud, using different data centers in order to build up a robust DR solution. I used Amazon’s EC2 (Elastic Compute ...
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OBIEE 11g: Where's the Compare Repositories Dialog?
Recently I decided to try out the new patching capabilities for the metadata in OBIEE 11g. The big reason for me was to avoid having to reset my connection pools. Each time I did a 3 way merge, the connection pools would get over-written with their development credentials. When I ...
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Controlling The SCAN Listener Log Location
I was lucky enough to attend UKOUG Conference 2011 last year. I saw several great presentations, one of which was a presentation on troubleshooting RAC by Julian Dyke. During this presentation Julian commented that we need to watch out for SCAN listeners having their ADR home inside the Grid Infrastructure ...
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Exadata [WARNING] This update is not applicable for Not Available BP12
During the application of BP12 on Exadata half rack V2, during the phase of application of db minimal patch, one compute node refused to get patched. As the ./install.sh script was run, it failed with :[WARNING] This update is not applicable for Not Available. Of course it wasn't ...
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Finding the folder that consumes more space in Linux OS
Sometimes we got some folders filled with unknown files either due to any bug where Oracle creates 100 files in a second or due to the OS bugs. And in some cases we’re not able to find in which folder files were created. For that, you can use the ...
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2011 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 81,000 times in 2011. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take ...
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Desaster Recovery in the cloud, Part 1
There are lots of arguments for using the cloud, especially around infrastructure costs. On the other hand, more often than not we have seen outages in the past where a cloud provider’s issue became a major issue, influencing clients that relied upon this cloud provider. As an Oracle database ...
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Learn: Patch 13348650 - 11.2.0.3.1 GI PSU
I read Patch 13348650 - 11.2.0.3.1 GI PSU. So, I tested it on my virtualbox by using OPatch Automation for GI. Some steps... One thing, I had to upgrade OPatch utility(Patch 6880880) before.- Upgrade OPatch utility$ unzip p6880880_112000_LINUX.zip -d [Grid Home],[Oracle SW HOME]- OCM ...