I spent today updating my Oracle 11gR2 RAC installation on OL6 article. The original article used an older version of VirtualBox , which meant some of the screen shots looked a little dated. It’s now updated to VirtualBox 4.2.6, so it should be a little less confusing for anyone who is new to VirtualBox. I’ll probably [...]
This morning I read this post about Oracle Cloud from Tuula Fai. What really annoys me about this post is I was at Oracle OpenWorld (about 3 years ago) when Larry was on stage telling us that Cloud was a meaningless fad. Fast forward to OOW 2012 and it would be easy to believe that [...]
This is a bit of a vanity post, so excuse me blowing my own trumpet. I just took a look at the speaker evaluation feedback from UKOUG 2012 and it was pretty good. Only 4 of the people left “wordy” feedback: Could have done with more time. Just the sort of presentation I came to conference [...]
I just saw Fat Bloke‘s post about VirtualBox 4.2.6. You can get the downloads and the changelog from the usual places. Happy upgrading! Cheers Tim…
I’ve been grabbing a few minutes here and there over the last couple of work days trying to get something working with no joy. I this case it is a DAD entry in the “dads.conf” file on the OHS running as part of 11gR2 Forms & Reports Services on WebLogic 11g (10.3.6). I started to [...]
I try to stick close to core Oracle technologies and steer clear of product endorsements, but over the years I’ve bumped into the ladies and gents from Dbvisit a number of times and they have been consistently cool and consistently on the money with their products. At Oracle OpenWorld 2012 I bumped into Arjen Visser who told me about [...]
I’ve put a couple of new posts live recently that are on quite old themes. Instance Caging to Manage CPU Usage in Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Efficient Function Calls From SQL The instance caging article was my feedback to some people at work about one method for managing resources in a consolidated environment. The [...]
On a yoga course a teacher said to the group, “Don’t try to remember everything I say. Some things will come back to haunt you later.” So I was reviewing a couple of chapters of Marcelle Kratochvil‘s multimedia book and she mentioned DBFS. That jogged a memory of the DBFS demo stand at OOW12, where [...]
VirtualBox 4.2.4 has been released. Downloads and changelog in the usual places. I’ve literally not had chance to upgrade all by VMs with the guest additions since the update released last week. Happy upgrading. Cheers Tim…
I ran through a Forms & Reports Services installation on WebLogic 10.3.6 this morning, so I made some minor tweaks to my existing 10.3.5 articles on that subject. Oracle WebLogic Server (WLS) 11gR1 (10.3.5 and 10.3.6) Installation on Oracle Linux 5 and 6 Oracle Forms and Reports 11gR2 Installation on Oracle Linux 5 The current [...]