Category Archives: Oracle in general

Ever wanted to use variables in your RMAN scripts? Until and including 10g R2 this was impossible. Starting with 11g R1 it is possible. Lets me show you a short example how to do it: First we create a simple … Continue reading →

This is a short post on how to tune Linux for running Oracle. It wont cover the background directly but i am trying to give some links with further informations. I am planning to improve it over the time. Currently … Continue reading →

With end of July 2010 support for Oracle 10g Release 2 ends. You can order (at additional costs of course) so called extended support to get support until July 2011. After this date there is so called “Sustaining Support” which … Continue reading →

I just found Oracle released 10.2.0.5.0 patchset for the following platforms: Linux x86_64 Linux x86 See Doc ID 1088172.1 for a list of fixed problems.

This is a short posting about an error i found today. This errors prevents the import of tables with lob columns when using traditional import, deferred segment creation and an altered tablespace name. For this i created a test case … Continue reading →

Some time ago i´ve seen a discussion on OTN about ASM and thin provisioned volumes. Hi there, sorry for the x-post from database-general but it was suggested that I do so. Anyhow, we’ve got 11g (11.1.0.7 with the 6851110 ASM … Continue reading →

The following illustrates the installation of Oracle 11g Release 2 database on Windows. Installation is quite straight forward. Before installing the database you can optionally install grid infrastructure which offers some nice feature – for instance Oracle Restart and ASM. … Continue reading →

The following pictures show the grid infrastructure installation of Oracle 11g Release 2 for Windows. This is a rather short posting without much text because the pictures are quite self-explaining. Requirements Windows Note there is no grid infrastructure or ASM … Continue reading →

I just tried installing Oracle 11g Relese 2 on Windows 2008 R2 64-bit and Windows 2008. The system were installed with Windows 2008 and 2008 R2 standard edition 64-bit on a VMWARE server with 4 core with two core assigned … Continue reading →

I have written an guest article (direct link) for Preston de Guises fine blog on how to use networker client on opensolaris.