Monthly Archives: December 2009

OOW 2009 catch-up

Posted on December 30, 2009 by Ronny Egner

Perhaps a little bit late but this post is a catch-up of interesting speeches held at the recent Oracle open world 2009: Database Consolidation Tips by Husnu Sensoy: you can get his presentation in his blog or here as local … Continue reading →

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How much memory is being used per program (not process)

Posted on December 29, 2009 by Ronny Egner

Sometimes administrators want to know how much memory is being used by a program (and not per process). This is especially useful to calculate the memory consumption for an oracle instance. Today i found a nice script for doing so … Continue reading →

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Persistent device naming (or binding) for running RAC on Linux (10g R2 clusterware and above)

Posted on December 9, 2009 by Ronny Egner

Installing oracle clusterware has been made easier and easier from release to release. When installing 10g R1 you struggled with ssh equivalence, wrong directory permissions and script bugs was a pain. 10g R2 was better but still quite painful (especially … Continue reading →

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Oracle databases with ASM in normal redundancy mode

Posted on December 4, 2009 by Ronny Egner

It´s been a while since my last post because i was busy doing some projects. One of these projects involved installing a rac cluster with ASM in normal redundancy mode. My experiences installing this configuration is covered in this article. … Continue reading →

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