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The moment you’ve all been waiting for…

No, no, not the Brangelina twins announcement, the numactl output.$ ps -ef | grep oracleoracle 13771 2418 0 Jun24 pts/0 00:00:00 -kshoracle 13772 13771 0 09:24 pts/0 00:00:00 ksh -ioracle 13775 13772 0 09:24 pts/0 00:00:00 ps -eforac…

Posted 02 July 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Part III

I escalated my issue to a duty manager and explained that in my environment those types of changes are very difficult. He kicked it back to development for alternate solutions.In the background, I managed to secure a test box for a couple hours that I…

Posted 24 June 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Something to be aware of, Part II

We’ve passed the one month anniversary for Something to be aware of (10.2.0.4) and still no meaningful results. I’ve been going back and forth with Oracle Support about switching NUMA off. In a synopsis:OS: Switch NUMA off and retest.Me: But that nev…

Posted 23 June 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Backing up at Home

I’m pretty particular about my backups at work. In fact, we have a setup where if a nightly backup fails, we get a page in the middle of the night so we can address the problem.At home, it’s a different story. I’ve got a Windows 2000 PC that I haul o…

Posted 20 June 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Microsoft Vista Oy Vey!

I needed a new laptop for my home. OK, maybe “need” is not the correct word, but you get my picture.So I did what I always do. I navigated to dell.com and purchased a Inspiron 1525 with a 15″ screen, 4G of RAM and Microsoft Windows Vista Home. I wen…

Posted 17 June 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Something to be aware of (10.2.0.4)

My standard install of 10.2.0.3 included 23 patches at last count. When the 10.2.0.4 patchset came out a few weeks ago I checked it and decided that since my 23 patches were included in 10.2.0.4, it would be a good idea to upgrade to that version.I fir…

Posted 13 May 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

RMAN-08137 Followup

Before I got a chance to apply my 10.2.0.4 patch, my problem fixed itself! Well, maybe not fixed itself, but certainly went away.As I was reviewing my backup log from last night, I noticed that my RMAN-08137 error was gone. I didn’t do anything differe…

Posted 10 April 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

RMAN-08137: WARNING: archive log not deleted as it is still needed

A couple days ago my network link to my standby databases went dark in the middle of the night. My dbs took notice and started generating log shipping errors in the alert.log. About 10 minutes later, I got a page from my standby db that said his gap wa…

Posted 02 April 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

10.2.0.4 Patchset is out

Just noticed that the 10.2.0.4 patchset is out.

Posted 26 March 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Maybe I’m starting to get it

Yes, another R12 post. It’s all I’ve been doing lately.When I first installed 11.5.3, I just went with the default two-tier architecture; Web & Forms on the middle-tier and Reports & CCM on the db host. After a while, I realized that was a mi…

Posted 12 March 2008 § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °