The 2010 Oracle Openworld Blogger Meetup has been announced. Details are here. it was loads of fun last time . Here’s my shirt from last year. Do you still have yours ?. From The Pythian Blog When: Wed, 22-Sep-2010, 5:30pm Where: Lower Dining Room, Jillian’s Billiards @ Metreon, 101 Fourth Street, San Francisco, CA 94103.
So Oracle Openworld starts sep 19-23 But the preparation are already underway with the Schedule Builder going Live Yesterday. The Official HashTag for Openworld 2010 is #oow2010 and @oracleopenworld can¬† be followed to get all the updates. George Woods has started his yearly Tweeters Attending Blogpost here and i’m not many more resources will popup [...]
Oracle 11.1.0.6 and 11.1.0.7 are impacted with this weird java core dumping bug. This seems to a POWER7 related issues. MOS Doc id 1065579.1 OUI crash observed with IBM JDK/JRE 1.5 SR4 on AIX when running on the new POWER7 based hardware details the bug and provide the patch to download and use to resolve [...]
In an earlier post i mentioned how Oracle Dataguard Broker does not support a cold failover cluster like HACMP. Well turns out Broker can be used on a Cold Failover Cluster. There are a few simple steps that needs to be followed to make the data broker be able to function. On the primary alter [...]
The last couple of weeks I’ve been working on converting on of my Databases to ASM. As databases grow adding more disk breaks performance if file systems are being used at many levels and to control performance Oracle released ASM which would provide RAW disk performance with dynamic re-balancing. This was precisely one of my [...]
The decade that started with the Y2K is finally ending this week. it has been an interesting decade for me with my move from Pakistan to the US in 2001. This decade has brought towards a lot of technological advances including Blogging, tweeting, Qiking/Ustreaming, Boxee and Xbox . Being an Oracle DBA. Oracle has changed [...]
——- I was really baffled today when on moving to a newer laptop i was unable to install Self Test Software for 10g that i have had for a number of years . I have liked some of the content and have used it for reference when needed. Today when i transferred stuff to my [...]
Just thought I’d share some of the pictures from openworld
Lets Face it. Todays Databases are getting bigger and bigger and backups not only are painfully long depending on the methodology you are using but also can cause performance issues. While Oracle has allowed for various methodologies including Backing up from the Physical Standby and now IN 11.2 the introduction of Change tracking file compatibility [...]
Its been busy and tiring. Unconference events are a conference by itself but are greatly imformative a nd should continue. High Availability and MAA has been my focus this year and i’ve learned a lot about new technologies that is new but the basics were built a long time ago. I learned that Focusing on [...]
