Posts Categorized: Technical Blog

Yury Remember, This is How you Disable AUTO_TASKs in 11G

I find myself forgetting on how to disable Oracle AUTO_TASKs on regular basis. Therefore I have decided to document it under this small blog post. As an additional bonus I may hear others experience in the area. So if you disagree or have some other experience please do not hesitate to comment under this post.

RMAN: Corrupt block … let’s re-read … nope it all good

Just received a page about “Corrupt block”. From the first look it kind of scary to receive such page 40 minutes before your shift ends. Right?
After examining an alert.log (see below) and looking through knowledge bases found an explanation that it isn’t as bad as I thought. I liked the explanation I found therefore I decided to share it with rest of the world. Here you go folks

Reasons for using ASM on NFS

My tweet few days ago – “Personally I don’t see the point building ASM on (d)NFS. ASM suppose to exclude unnecessary layers. In NAS case it adds an additional layer.” Since then Oracle people in my Social Media environment helped me to find several legitimate reasons to run ASM on NAS. Thank you folks very much. Now I am sharing our common thoughts with the rest of the community.

My Agenda for AUSOUG Conference in Perth

There is a very strong Oracle Community in Perth, Australia. I admire many Perth based Oracle User Group volunteers who year from your organizing a great Oracle event. This year it isn’t an exception. I just spent 30 minutes going through the program and I should say the lineup of speakers is very impressive. Here’s the schedule.

Oracle Direct NFS Configuration File Explained

While Oracle tech folks doing their best to explain meaning of not so many DNFS configuration file (oranfstab) parameters I still find an official description a bit confusing. Therefore I decided to share my understanding of the DNFS configuration parameters in hope that it will help someone or if my understanding is wrong someone corrects me :) So, if I am wrong please please please feel free to leave comments.

All your Eggs in One Basket – Thoughts on Pluggable Databases

I hope that by now you’ve all heard about the fun that is pluggable databases. Oracle 12c will allow you to have multiple databases within the same instance. It is not often that Oracle makes a major architecture change that opens new possibilities. As a consultant it is certainly exciting, I can now imagine new and better-than-ever solutions for my customers.

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