This morning, as I was scanning through the 11gR2 version of the Backup and Recovery User Guide and I saw the term Fast Recovery Area. My first thought was, “Isn’t that meant to be Flash Recovery Area?”. This was quickly followed by that flash (excuse the pun) of embarrassment when you think maybe it changed [...]
I finally got round to trying an NFS installation of 11gR2 RAC.
Oracle Database 11g Release 2 RAC On Linux Using NFS
No real surprises here. It all seems a little simpler when using NFS, but it was cronically slow on my crappy kit.
Cheers
Tim…
Hi.
I’ve been having a play with the ASM Cluster File System (ACFS).
Oracle ASM Cluster File Systems (ACFS) in Oracle Database 11g Release 2
It does what it says on the tin. I’m using a VMware RAC installation, so I have no idea what the performance is like. The main thing to report is it is extremely [...]
A couple of new articles have crept out recently. The first is me pretending to understand DNS.
DNS Configuration for the SCAN used with Oracle RAC Database 11g Release 2
I used this configuration in place of the “/etc/hosts” in my VMware RAC installation and it worked great.
The second is a brief romp through edition-based redefinition.
Edition Based [...]
A couple of articles crept out of the last couple of days.
First a revamp of an old article about XML over HTTP to bring it in line with some of the stuff I’ve been presenting recently.
XML-Over-HTTP (REST Web Services) From PL/SQL
Next, something new that caught my eye to do with auditing in 11gR2.
Auditing Enhancements (DBMS_AUDIT_MGMT) [...]
I had a play around yesterday and installed Oracle 11gR2 on Fedora 12:
Fedora 12 (F12) Installation
Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2) Installation On Fedora 12 (F12)
I think this might be the last time I install Oracle on Fedora. Why? For two reasons:
When I first started doing installs on Red Hat 7 (pre Enterprise Linux) it [...]
I had one day to myself in Melbourne before the conference started, so I asked the hotel concierge what I needed to see. I followed his itinerary almost to the letter and got to see a fair bit, which was cool.
Melbourne feels very different to the other cities I’ve been to in Australia. The other [...]
I was chatting to Marcel Kratochvil at OpenWorld this year and he suggested I visit Canberra to have a chat with the guys from ACTOUG while I was in Australia, so yesterday morning I flew into Canberra.
On the plane I developed a splitting headache, due to lack of sleep, so by the time I got [...]
The plane journey from Perth to Melbourne turned out to be very productive. I’ve made some substantial changes to my presentation. The content is the same, but as I suggested in my previous post, I’ve de-emphasized some bits and emphasized others.
I guess my presenting style is based very much on the way I write articles [...]
The Perth event is now done and dusted.
The day before the conference, Chris Muir took Lucas Jellema and myself on a little tour of the city. I slept OK the night before so I felt pretty good. That night I didn’t sleep at all. Not one minute. By the morning I felt OK so I [...]