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 is currently [...]
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…
I’ve had my first play with 11gR2 today:
Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2) Installation On Enterprise Linux 5.0
Nothing too unpredictable really.
I guess the most noticeable change is the new installer. I didn’t have an issue with the old installer, but a few friends from the Microsoft world had pointed out how dated it looked. The [...]
I’ve just put another Oracle 11g new features article live:
Resource Manager Enhancements in Oracle Database 11g Release 1
Cheers
Tim…
I’ve recently been playing around with Database Change Notification, which is basically an asynchronous triggering mechanism. I’m not really sure why I would use it in an application, but it’s always nice to know about this stuff, just in case. I suppose it’s not drastically dissimilar to the the use of a handler module in [...]