Yum Yum, Fresh RPMs.

While I was over on Sergio’s blog looking at the oracle-validated-rpm from a comment by Avi on my last blog entry, I saw another post that I think needs more publicity New Oracle Public Yum Server If you’re like me and have a bunch of machines that you muck around on and don’t want to [...]

Variant on ORA-27101 error

A funny from a system test server today, which is being refreshed. The database is up and the oracle account can login through SQL*Plus without a hitch. However, when we attempt to connect through the OPS$ accounts, via sudo, we get the following error: ERROR:ORA-01034: ORACLE not availableORA-27101: shared memory realm does not existSVR4 Error: [...]

Real Application Testing on 10g/11g Step-by-Step

In this post I’m reviewing Real Application Testing Database Reply and SQL Performance Analyzer step by step. The initial understanding of the implementation process demand some work, but the results are excellent and worth the effort, we get valuable information to asses how our systems will behave after change, something much needed for production environments. [...]