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OpenSQL Camp will take place Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd of August, in St. Augustin, Germany, so it could do for a nice August getaway to Germany. It’s not really the biggest of cities, but then again, that is part of the charm, going to some small city and learning more about databases.
In case you do happen to be curious, feel free to check out the list of proposed sessions, although it is not complete, it does give a overview of what to expect.
Recently, I tested a switchover on Oracle 11g SE1. As you know, Oracle Database Standard Edition One—as well as Standard Edition—does not have the Data Guard feature. Therefore, I had to do everything manually. The whole process took less than 15 minutes. This includes less than five minutes of full downtime to restart the database in READ-ONLY mode, and less than 10 minutes of READ-ONLY downtime. Here’s what I had.
A short time ago I posted how I was Using XtraDB Backup to backup InnoDB. Overall, the blog post was positive, but experiences that others have had (and commented to on that blog post) have made me want to put out another short article about using XtraDB backup. The first few points remain the same — the backup process is stable, we were able to use the binaries without compiling, and using Innobackupex as the wrapper script, analogous to Innobackup.pl. However, we did figure out why Xtrabackup had to be run as the mysql user:
Most people think Windows administrators make a living with their right-hand—you know, right-clicking and left-clicking the user interface to get things done. I’ve spent a fair amount of time writing VBScript scripts to administer Windows servers and workstations and automating repetitive tasks. One reason for me moving into Windows PowerShell is its roots in the Microsoft .NET Framework, as I have done a fair amount of .NET programming. But what is Windows PowerShell anyway?
My old friend and collaborator Theo Schlossnagle at OmniTI posted his slides from his Scalable Internet Architectures talk at VelocityConf 2009. The slides are brilliant even without seeing Theo talk and I highly recommend the time it takes to flip through them, for anyone who is interested in systems performance. If anyone took an mp3 of this talk I’m dying to hear it, please let me know. Here’s the slide deck. Let me know your thoughts.
Welcome, readers! It’s time for another update to our series of posts on installing Oracle on Ubuntu Linux. In this edition, we’ll be installing Oracle 11g R1 on Ubuntu 9.04, both 32-bit. This time, I’ve used VirtualBox to run a virtual machine (VM) to perform our work.
Connecting to a cisco vpn device with vpnc on jaunty. If you use vpnc and vpnc-disconnect to bring the connection up and down, all works fine. If you leave the connection idle too long and are disconnected from the other end, the resolv.conf is not always updated. This is a problem because, when you do a DNS lookup in a browser you’ll experience delays, the DNS servers from your vpn connection are no longer available. The easiest way to check this is to login to your vpn and check the contents of /etc/resolv.conf.
Today’s trivial MySQL system variable: (old_alter_table) The interesting bit is that this is a system variable, and shows up in SHOW GLOBAL VARIABLES, but is not documented on the Server System Variables manual page. Instead, it is documented on the manual page for Server options. Unfortunately, that documentation is very sparse.
This meetup will be focused on storage technologies for Oracle database. It looks like a short presentation on Oracle Automatic Storage Management is in order – quite a few people are missing the concepts of the Oracle flagman storage storage solution and it’s useful to understand the approach whether you use it now or not.
About six months ago, the question of storing images in a database came up. This is one of my favorite topics, and has many database-agnostic parts. Personally, I think “tell me about storing images in a database” is actually a great interview question, because you will be able to see the difference between someone who has just memorized “what’s right” versus someone who is really thinking. It also helps you see how someone will communicate.
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