Fuad Arshad’s Blog

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 [...]

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 in [...]

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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 [...]

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 [...]

SunDay is normally a day for User Group presentations . i got a chance to attend a couple of presentations  starting off with Demystifying Oracle Real Application Clusters Workload Management. by Alex Gorbachev . This was anexcellent presentation giving some good details on Workload management and CLB.  I’ll stlll have to look at the presentation  [...]

Finally made it here to Oracle Openworld 2009. I’ll be tweeting , blogging , taking pictures, making video etc of the event .
If yuo would like to find out what i will be doing follow me on twitter at
Twitter http://www.twitter.com/fuadar
Friendfeed  http://friendfeed.com/fuadar
hash tag  #oow09 is the official hashtag of the conference . and this twitter saved [...]

Oracle Performs redo shipping and authentication services between the primary and the standby using Password files and if your security protocols dictate a sys password change  you will start having issues with stopped log shipping with errors like .
Error 1017 received logging on to the standby
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Check that the primary and standby are using a password [...]

There is so much to do in so little time . I have had  a very hard time selecting sessions this year with 11Gr2 fresh out.
Here are sessions that i plan to attend in addition to some of the great unconference sessions, OTN Party and much more at Oracle Openworld 2009.