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Friday, October 10, 2008

About Clear Communications

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Like everyone else I like to rant once in a while. I rant about the shortcomings in Oracle software, the tools and technologies I work with....
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Sunday, October 05, 2008

Upgrade Experience for Patchkit 11.1.0.7

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The first patchkit for 11g - 11.1.0.7 - came out a few weeks ago, for Linux systems. Unlike most other patchkits, this one contains some new...
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Sunday, September 28, 2008

Most Striking Object at Open World 08

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What was the most amazing thing I witnessed for the first time at OOW 08? Hands down, it is the compostible drinking cup ! Yes, compostible...
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OOW'08 Oracle 11g New Features for DBAs

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It was my second session at Open World this year. It was full with 332 attendees with a whopping 277 attendees on wait list! the room capaci...
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OOW'08 : Real Life Best Practices for DBAs

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Once more, it was a full session with 278 attendees and 251 waitlisted due to lack of space! I wish the organizers simply moved to a bigger ...
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OOW'08 Partitioning - Why, When, What and How

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I had a full session (300+ in attendance with 120 wait-listed). There was a gentleman from the organizing team who was trying to let in peop...
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OOW'08 ACE Directors Forum Session

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Lewis Cunningham kindly took the reins of organizing a unique session - a panel of ACE Directors. But instead of a panel didcussing some top...
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008

From the Trenches at OOW'08

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I had two sessions today: (1) I signed up a Unconference session - "Practical 11g Upgrade". I signed up for this on the spot; so I...
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Speaking on Partitioning at NY Metro Oracle Day

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I recently delivered a session at New York Metro Area Oracle Day organized by User Groups in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. If you at...
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Monday, September 01, 2008

Magic of Block Change Tracking

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The other day, one of the instances of our main 3-node RAC database crashed due to an I/O error. Apparently there were many "dead paths...
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Saturday, August 23, 2008

Diagnosing Library Cache Latch Contention: A Real Case Study

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The other day, our data warehouse database was effectively down. The database was up and running; but all connection attempts to the databas...
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Put External Procedures on a Different Listener

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As a best practice, I recommend placing external procedures, if you use them, on a different listener.ora file. Why so? External Procedures ...
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Why should you set the ADMIN_RESTRICTIONS_LISTENER to ON

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Recently someone probably went through the slides of my session on "Real Life DBA Best Practices" and had a question on OTN forum ...
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Saturday, August 09, 2008

Resource Manager I/O Calibration in 11g

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You are considering a new platform for the Oracle database; or perhaps worried about the I/O capabilities of the existing platform. How do y...
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Thursday, August 07, 2008

Full Table Scans on RAC

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The phone goes off, yet again, and this time it seems to be a serious problem. Here are the symptoms: all the applications seems to be worki...
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Monday, August 04, 2008

Issues in RAC with Wrong Listener Configuration

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The one thing that frustrates me the most is the lack of clear communication. Without clarity in what is being transpired, it's impossib...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008

My Little World in Open World

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Oracle Open World is coming up in just two months ... actually sooner. It will be quite active for me. First, I am sharing the stage with a ...
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Comparing CLOBs

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What if you have two CLOB columns to compare? A construct like select someColumn from tab1 where col1 != col2 will not work. This is how yo...
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Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Auditing Nuances

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I had posted it earlier on my other blog - Oracle Security Musings ( http://www.proligence.com/blog/index.html ). I reproduce here. This cam...
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A recent picture

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someone observed that my picture on OTN appears much younger than what I really look. Well, the OTN picture was taken some 4 years ago. Here...
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