Vacation time.

I'm in doha airport right now just trying to catch up on blogs and stuff. i know i havent posted in a while but it is only prudent to post when something worthwhile comes up. anyways I'm on vacation for the next 3 weeks and hopefully that time will enable me to think about new material too. :)

Oracle releases new software aimed towards the performance conscious DBA

  Details Here

milestone release for Oracle database - Digging in a Habari sandpit

The Net of 2008

Blogoscoped has this very interesting article  about the Net of 2008 . Even though its non Oracle i thought i'd share it here . It talks about the actions we take today repeatedly to perform tasks and how that has evolved. Interested reading

 

The Net of 2008

The Oracle Community Network has arrived

Eddie Awad has done it again. Oracle Community Which is the Oracle Face book was just launched. Join in the fun and network with Other Oracle folks .

Real Application Testing - The final frontier

Just read thru Girlgeek's Blog about RAT. This is a feature which i have been very interested in ever since it was announced and share the same skeptism that she does.  In this age of HIPAA,SOX etc what use is RAT if masking cannot be done . this would ensure my offshore developers have all my production data. The one ability i would so like to get RAT for is the ability to test upgrades. For some OLTP applications it is virtually impossible to account for the network latency and the volume . RAT has the potiental to solve that but  since i have not seen any documentation or tried it out yet. I'm guessing RAT cannot be used in Lower Database e.g 9 or 10. Making it available to those database as  a collector might be so beneficial to a lot of DBA's who aim for a smooth upgrade. 

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Girlgeek's Oracle Blog: Real Application Testing - RATs!!

Twit this or how a thought becomes a solution

 

This morning i posted a thought on twitter. This was based on my frustration with getting oid to work and the problems understanding the documentation that i have . The response was not only surprising but as Dan Norris  states in his blog post  in complete detail with patches. Both Matt Topper @topperge and Dan norris @dannorris  helped me out in not only identifying what i needed but what documentation i needed. This web 2.0 thingy rocks. :)

Bug fix: innapropriate ioctl for device

Apparently 10.2.0.3 has an issues with veritas or solstice disk suite.
I just finished setting up a new server with Solaris 9 and 10.2.0.3 on a database install got inappropriate ioctl for device. after confirmation from my sysadmins that the problem was not the disk or the OS. I found Note:405825.1 which describes the exact problem that i had and the fix was applying Patch 5752399. This is published as Bug 5747918. The database creation was successful after application of the patch

The OID Chronicles. Part 1

Being a non Oracle AS infrastructure person . I am now trying to get Oracle Internet Directory configured on a a centralized server to test the Service names resolution capabilities. I found the 3 CD's that were required copied them to a unix server and am now in the process of painfully installing them. The first problem that i hit was shmmin shmseg were not set on this solris 9 server. Oracle 9.2 is already installed and working on this server. reading thru the docs i found out shmseg is an obsolete parameter. I had the sysadmin put this in anyways and have them reboot the server. I put an Oracle 10.2 instance to save time on installing the database that comes with the AS infrastructure . The second thing i hit was AS requires a new Home which makes sense. The 3rd thing i hit was even though my TNS_ADMIN was unset it found out thati have a system wide tnsnames.ora . done know why it matters but it wants me to remove the link /etc before it can proceed. Lets see what it says next after the break :)