Monthly Archives: December 2010

Networker cumulative hotfixes

EMC offers so called cumulative hotfixes which include all available and tested hotfixes for a specific version. These hotfixes can be found at the following URL: ftp://ftp.legato.com/pub/NetWorker/Cumulative_Hotfixes

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How to corrupt a oracle block within a datafile

For corrupting a block dd can be used. Just adjust the “ibs” argument to match your database block size and adjust “count” to specify the amount of blocks to be corrupted. “Seek” specifies how many blocks are skipped (counted from … Continue reading

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I am now certified as MCITP MS DBA for SQL Server 2008

Altough not oracle related i successfully completed my certification as an MS SQL Server DBA. In most companies MS SQL is used for smaller databases in addition to oracle. So from my point of view it is a plus. I … Continue reading

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