Hi Tom, With all the Oracle technologies including the logical, physical standby DBs, flashback, rolling patches, Active Data Guard, and Edition Based Redefinition, etc. available today, would you please explain by example why we still can?t comp…
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Photo by .schill from Flickr used under Creative Commons Wow, geo is a hot topic lately, with coverage, announcements and features dropping every day. Here’s a summary of what I’ve seen lately that caught my interest: Gowalla appears to be preparing an API. MyTown has 500,000 users, even though no one talks about it. Yelp [...]
Our mothers taught us to wait our turn. We learned that lesson, but it’s much easier said than done. When we do things like import records into CRM On Demand, we expect immediate results. Usually, our imports are processed in 4 minutes or less and we move along happily, but every once in a while [...]
The October 2009 Critical Patch Update (CPU) was released earlier this week. Applying security patches is the foundation of Database Security as per Noel Yuhanna’s Database Security Strategy report. But a lot of customers struggle with applying the quarterly CPU because of 7×24 operational requirements which prevent them from bringing their database down for more [...]
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Preface Last weekend was pretty exciting. We were upgrading our customer’s production 11.5.9 Oracle Applications instance to 10.2.0.3 and part of the effort was applying the ATG Family pack H.RUP6 patch. We were getting some really weird errors while doing the production run, something we had never seen before in the pre-production rounds (we did [...]
And I had no answer for him. I couldn’t blame him. CIOs want to know this kind of information. Better still, he would have liked a pie chart depicting it like this: I wish.. Well, for once, it would have been nice if Oracle 9i or 10g kept the historical startup or shutdown information in [...]
Preface So you want to upgrade your database to 10g from 9i. Well, welcome to the club. If you have RAC, then you will definitely need to install the CRS and database binaries, along with some RDBMS patches. When we were challenged with keeping the downtime to within 24 hrs by a customer, that set [...]
Preface Nowadays, we are doing a 10g upgrade for one of our clients and hit upon the idea of pre-staging the 10gR2 CRS + DB technology stack on their RAC servers that are running 9iR2 RAC on HP service gaurd already. This is nothing but a downtime reduction technique, that saved about 5-6 hours. Thankfully, [...]