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In this post, I will share with you my experience installing OVMM 3.0.3 under OVM 3.0.3 Dom0 host, including, a short and sweet action plan to get it up and running ASAP, a detailed explanation with error messages and solutions, and clean run output
The end is nigh for Adobe Flash at My Oracle Support. The first step will happen during this weekend’s planned maintenance of My Oracle support, when all of MOS will be down for 5 hours starting at midnight eastern, Saturday January 28. Once it comes back up, the unadvertised non-Flash supporthtml.oracle.com will come up as a quasi-user acceptance test of the new application, while the flash-based support.oracle.com stays as-is.
A frequent inquiry concerning databases’ security is to retrieve the database role(s) associated with each user for auditing or troubleshooting purposes. Each database user (principal) can be retrieved from sys.database_principals and the associated database roles can be retrieved from sys.database_role_members The following code runs against ALL the databases using SP_MSForeachdb and all roles for one principal is concatenated in one row
The 2012 edition of RMOUG Training Days in Denver less than a month away, running February 15 and 16 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver. . It’s not too late to register, and it’s a pretty nice excuse to get to the Rockies in ski season. I’ll be doing two presentations, and am polishing up whitepapers and presentations for the submission deadline tomorrow
A few days ago, we faced a Duplicate entry problem in the mysqld server on one of our customer’s slave after cold backup. We made some recommendations to the Customer (read them here) in which the option 3 was chosen as the slave was dedicated for backup’s and a quick solution applicable for their data set and timeline for resolution of the issue.
I attended a great presentation at UKOUG 2011, “Oracle E-business Suite’s use of edition-based redefinition for online patching,” delivered by Bryn Llewellyn from Oracle. The presentation provided thorough insight on how EBR works and how E-Business Suite will be able to use it for online patching. It answered many questions, but raised a few more questions and concerns. I’ll try to summarize in this post the main concerns I’ve been thinking about after attending this presentation.
Hot on the heels of 11.2.0.3 coming out for Exadata, there’s yet another Exadata patch schedule out: the Quarterly Database Patch for Exadata (QDPE). They’re designed to being some of the predictability of Oracle’s quarterly critical patch updates (CPU) to the Exadata world.
Since Oracle 11.2.0.3 came out last September, there have been questions about Exadata availability. As of today, the patchset is now available.
Reviewing the upgrade document (MOS note 1373255.1) a few things that jumped out at me, here they are.
In this post I quickly cover the new features in SQL Server RC0 setup.
I had to refresh my knowledge on how InnoDB threads queue works the other day when debugging activity spikes on one of the customer’s production system and while I had general idea about InnoDB kernel and queue, thread concurrency and queue join delays I didn’t have a complete model of how InnoDB concurrency control works. So I started from manual…

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