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Pythian’s Third Annual Geek Pride Day

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The day has arrived, probably one of our favourite days at Pythian – Geek Pride Day! Since May 25 (the “official” day according to Wikipedia) falls on Saturday, we celebrate it a day early so everyone can participate. For the third year in a row, our 250+ global Pythianites have the opportunity to learn more…

EBS Forms compilation errors in large terminal windows. Size does matter!

During a recent customer environment cloning activity I got myself up to the point where CUSTOM.plx was required to be recompiled. Nothing difficult you may say, right? I thought the same. But that activity just killed lots of troubleshooting hours for me. frmcmp_batch.sh call was just failing with “Terminal map initialization failed.” [oracle@appslab01 ~]$ frmcmp_batch.sh…

ODA re-imaging could take anything between 20 and 120 mins

This blog posts explains why Oracle Database Appliances re-imaging process timing may vary from 20 to 120 minutes. There are a check in the ISO:/Extras/setupodaovm.sh script that have an issue. Until the bug is fixed a) you may face different ODA nodes’ re-imaging times b) to be on the safe side check if md devices’ re-synchronization process is finished by running “cat /proc/mdstat” command before running any business critical processes on your ODA.

How to collect cluster Information using TSQL

Sometime back I was involved in a project which was to collect information for the servers we are supporting – creating inventory of servers. Logging into each server and collecting information is bit tedious when you have hundreds of server in your environment.  I have spent sometime and created a script that does this work…

The Importance of an Action Plan

When I started my work in IT, I used to be in a very small shop, and even though we had people in several places in the same state, everything used to be very centralized and from 9 to 5, and because we were basically only 2 people , our action plan used to be…

Log Buffer #318, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs

News and views are an integral part of our modern daily life. When it comes to the information-hungry roles such as database professionals, such need becomes more pressing. Log Buffer is one way to keep abreast of news and views from the world of Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL.

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