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Updating ASMLIB Driver Using “update-driver”

In this post I want to talk about updating ASMLIB after or before updating kernel version. Beginning oracleasm-support version 2.1.0 and higher we can use the embedded function “update-driver” which can help us to save time and simplify the process of updating ASMLIB driver.

Upgrading Standalone ASM to Oracle Grid Infrastructure?

The past four days have found me very frustrated and at wits’ end while testing upgrades of standalone Oracle Grid Infrastructure (ASM) 11.2.0.1 to 11.2.0.2 on RHEL/OEL 5 VMs. The upgrade would seem to go fine, but after rebooting, I would see ASM and LISTENER running under the old (11.2.0.1) grid home directories again. This is the second bug with the 11.2.0.2 upgrade process that I’ve encountered.

UKOUG Days 2 & 3

My presentations are finished and the feedback positive. I will be presenting one of sessions (Using AWR/ASH data) at RMOUG Training Days and Hotsos Symposium 2011 with minor modifications (I wonder…can I use the 11g analytical function LISTAGG with AWR/ASH data?). Anyway here are some highlights from the last day and a half…

UKOUG 2010 – 2 Days Later

Blogging from the Speaker Ready room which is now suited on the balcony overlooking the exhibition. I must say that I like the new location. Not only it is closer to the action, but allows you to oversee who is hanging out over the exhibitors. There’s been a number of interesting sessions, but it’s little things here and there that I learn that provide some real value. Here’s a few examples

UKOUG Day 1.5

After an inauspicious start, my 7th visit to Birmingham for the UKOUG Conference is in full swing. As in the past, the quality of the presentations is outstanding and the biggest challenge to the attendee is to decide which of the 3 concurrent sessions to attend.

Exadata OEM Monitoring Plugins are Now Available

The Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control monitoring plug-ins for Exadata have been released. This is great news for Exadata users, since important components like InfiniBand switches previously had no direct monitoring. The plug-in bundle includes five separate monitoring plugins, here they are.

Data Pump Monitoring

If there is no much useful information in v$session_longops and space for the segment is already allocated how to get the same “rows completed” value of worker status as in intercative mode but using sql script? With small modification of example from the documentation I came with the PL/SQL block to get value of one Data Pump Import worker status attributes…

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