Category Archives: Oracle in general

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 →

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 →

I found the following question in my blog statistics: “can we change kernel parameter in linux when oracle is running” The answer is: Yes, of course! You can alter any kernel parameter as long as it don’t require a reboot. … Continue reading →

I developed this topic last year while taking the OCP course. The instructor told us about oracle authentication and because i was a little bit bored i played around with it. My goal was to use oracle external authentication to … Continue reading →

Classic Metalink retired the last weekend. New flash-bashed Metalink currently faces a lot of problems (to be honest: it is at the moment [12th November 2009] completely unusable). Beside this major errors there are other problems: such as incredible high … Continue reading →

As of today i successfully passed the exam to become an OCE. Next certifiecation i am working on is “Oracle Database 10g: Real Application Clusters Administrator Certified Expert”.

A few months ago i tested yet another syslog implementation: rsyslog. Among all other available syslog implementation such as syslog or syslog-ng rsyslog offers some nice features such as: database support MySQL Postgres Oracle Failover log destinations syslog over tcp … Continue reading →

As of today (09th November 2009) Oracle 11g Release 2 is available for Solaris SPARC. You can download it from OTN. The release includes database, client and grid infrastructure (aka “clusterware” as well). According to the release schedule Oracle 11g … Continue reading →

Beneath the battle of the operating systems (Windows vs.UNIX) there one argumentation after deciding for running oracle on Linux: The choice of the file system and the “correct” partition layout. This article will sum up what file system are certified … Continue reading →