Until a couple of days ago I hadn’t even realized that Fedora 13 was out. I guess that shows how interested I am in Fedora these days. Anyway, I had a play around with it. Fedora 13 (F13) Installation Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2) Installation On Fedora 13 (F13) Cheers Tim…
With the recent news that the latest version of VirtualBox now supports shared disks, I thought I better give it a go and see if I could do a RAC installation on it. The good news is it worked as expected. You can see a quick run through here: Oracle Database 11g Release 2 RAC [...]
Just a point-and-click guide to Data Guard setup using Grid Control. Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Data Guard Setup using Oracle Grid Control Cheers Tim…
My previous article discussed the DBFS. This article gives an overview of the PL/SQL APIs for managing and interacting with the DBFS. Oracle Database File System (DBFS) PL/SQL APIs There’s a lot in there, so this is just skimming the surface. Cheers Tim…
I’ve been having a play with the DBFS functionality in 11gR2. Oracle Database File System (DBFS) in Oracle Database 11g Release 2 For the most part it is extremely simple. If you are working on Linux then it’s a really neat solution. On any other platform you are limited to using the dbfs_client tool, which [...]
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…
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 [...]
There are some nice new features in the scheduler in 11gR2. I’ve written about them here: Scheduler Enhancements in Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Remote Scheduler Agent Installation for Oracle 11g Release 2 Remember, there was already a bunch of new stuff added in llgR1, so there’s a lot of whiz-bang stuff if you are [...]
I’ve taken my first tentative steps into 11gR2 RAC and it was a big surprise. Oracle 11g Release 2 RAC On Linux Using VMware Server 2 11gR2 RAC feels very different to 11gR1 RAC. I can imagine quite a few people wanting to upgrade from 11gR1 thinking it will be trivial and getting a rude [...]
I’ve been running through my demos before my PL/SQL workshop in Utrecht and I noticed a change in the behaviour of the PL/SQL Function Result Cache. In 11gR1 it was necessary to specify dependencies using the RELIES ON clause, but now Oracle 11gR2 takes care of Detection of Sources for you. Neat. Cheers Tim…