Ronny Egners Blog

Oracle Resources

• Oracle Technology Network (download products, documentation, white papers and much more)
  • Oracle Technology Network (OTN)
  • Oracle Technology Networker –> Software Downloads Index
  • Oracle Technology Network (OTN) –> Database Software Download
  • Note: Download is free and requires an OTN account which you can create yourself (you will need a valid email address).

• Oracle EDelivery (Download Oracle Enterprise Linux, Oracle VM)
  • Oracle EDelivery Main Page
  • Oracle EDelivery (Oracle Enterprise Linux, Oracle VM)
  • Note: Download is free and does not require a registration.

• Documentation
  • Online documentation at tahiti.oracle.com (database, application server, fusion middleware, beehive, collaboration suite, people soft)
  • Documentation at OTN for download
  • The official Oracle wiki
  • LOCAL 11g R2 Database Documentation Mirror
• Other
  • Overview of X$ Table name (taken from here)

My Blog Roll

I know this not a complete list of all available blogs. If you know a nice blog not listed leave a comment or send me a mail. A much more complete list can be found in the oracle wiki.

Oracle database blogs

• Aggregator Blogs
  • Coskan`s blogroll (a summary of interesting new oracle related articles)
• selected Individual Blogs
  • Richard Footes blog
  • Don Chos blog
  • Orajourn
  • ASM Support Guy
  • SuareDBA Blog
  • Tanel Poders Blog
  • James Morle´s Blog
  • Jonathan Lewis Blog
  • Randolf Geists Blog
  • HP Fuchs Blog
  • Hand Forbichs Blog
  • Erics Blog
  • Freek D’Hooges Blog
  • Kai Liesenfelds Blog (in german)
  • We do RAC (“all about clustering”)
  • Martin Carsten Bachs Blog
  • The Oracle Optimizer Team blog

Networker blogs

• Preston de Guise`s web site nsrd.info
• Preston de Guise´s blog
• Preston de Guise`s 2nd blog

Papers

Database in general

• Harald Van Breedore-Checkpoint presentation presented at the RAC SIG (mirror)

Oracle 11g Release 2

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Upgrading to 11g R2 (from 11g R1 or lower)

• Kerry Osbourne: Upgrading to 11g Release 2 (mirror or mirror in pdf format)
• Migration to Oracle 11g Release 2 – Workshop foils from Oracle
  
  • official Source
  • local Mirror
• Metalink Note on how to Upgrade to 11.2 manually

Patching 11g R2 (starting from 11.2.0.1.0; i.e. “minor” updates)

• My notes on 11.2.0.2.0

Real Application Clusters (RAC)

• Load Balancing and Failover with RAC
• ASM best practices (11g Release 2 version)

Useful Scripts

• Fully decoded locking

Tools

IO Benchmarking

• Overview
• Oracle Orion
• Bonnie++
• FIO