Author Archives: Ronny Egner

Changing ADR Destination for 11g Listener

Posted on September 22, 2009 by Ronny Egner

With 11g Release 1 Oracle introduced the Automatic Diagnostic Repository  – “ADR”. The ADR is designed as central repository for storing all oracle-related log files such as alert.log, listener.log and so on. The log files are stored in XML format … Continue reading →

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Building and using the kfed utility

Posted on September 21, 2009 by Ronny Egner

When using ASM sometimes it it extremely helpful to get more information on the asm disk header. The “kfed” utility from oracle enables to dump the asm disk header and many more. With this tool corruptions to the asm can … Continue reading →

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Using ASM with files (either locally or via NFS)

Posted on September 21, 2009 by Ronny Egner

From time to time i need to configure additional and temporary storage for data migration or just testing purposes. Raw Devices are not recommended to use from 11g onwards. So why not use the loopback device for that? With this scenario … Continue reading →

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Oracle 11g Release 2 Install Guide – Grid Infrastructure installation

Posted on September 14, 2009 by Ronny Egner

System configuration: Hardware configuration two virtual machines (VMWARE) 1 vCPU 2 GB RAM –> bare minimum possible 40 GB Disk Storage exported via ISCSI 4 LUNs with 2 GB each 2 LUNs with 30 GB each Operating system configuration Oracle Enterprise … Continue reading →

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Oracle 11 Release 2 Install Guide – Update 14th September 2009

Posted on September 14, 2009 by Ronny Egner

The install guide was updated. The presentation is already up-to-date.   I will also post the topics from the presentation as separated posts in this blog. For a better overview i created a separate page to collect and sort all … Continue reading →

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Oracle 11g Release 2 Install Guide – Single database creation guide

Posted on September 14, 2009 by Ronny Egner

Oracle 11g Release 2 – Single database creation guide   The first part (binary installation of the database) is available here.   Start default listener Create single database instance

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Oracle 11g Release 2 Install Guide – Single database binary installation

Posted on September 14, 2009 by Ronny Egner

Oracle 11g Release 2 – Single database binary installation guide   Local System configuration Installation took place on laptop with CentOS 5 x86_64 (Kernel 2.6.18-128.2.1.el5) 4 GB Memory 500 GB local disk   Steps required to install Oracle 11g Release … Continue reading →

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Oracle 11g Release 2 Install Guide – Overview

Posted on September 14, 2009 by Ronny Egner

Oracle 11g Release 2 – Overview Oracle Database 11g Release 2 released on 1st September 2009 Download from http://otn.oracle.com (requires registration but no support identifier) Currently available platforms: Linux x86 (32-bit) Linux x86_64 (64-bit) Windows 32-bit (no RAC available!) Windows … Continue reading →

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Oracle 11g Release Installation HowTo

Posted on September 11, 2009 by Ronny Egner

Oracle 11g Release 2 was released on 1st of September 2009. From my point of view this version will be the next widely used version after 10 Release 2. In myopinion 11g Release 1 is a quite good and stable … Continue reading →

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