Posted by Yury Velikanov on Sep 12, 2010
Hello Dear Reader,
This weekend was most probably my longest oncall weekend ever. As part of our work at Pythian each team member covers weekends on regular basis. There are quiet weekends and weekends like this one ;)
One of the tasks that I was involved in was 700GB database emergency cloning for an important functional issue troubleshooting. It was 10.2.0.5 (10GR2) 64 Bit database on Linux. I used the following command to clone:
export NLS_DATE_FORMAT='YYYY-MM-DD:HH24:MI:SS'
rman target / nocatalog auxiliary sys/syspwd@TARGET log=dup_TERGET.log
run {
set until time "to_date('10-JAN-2010 23:05:25', 'DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI:SS')";
allocate auxiliary channel c1 type disk;
allocate auxiliary channel c2 type disk;
duplicate target database to TARGET;
}
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Posted by Alex Gorbachev on Apr 13, 2009
I was very surprised that Oracle released Oracle Database for Mac OSX, especially, version 10g now that 11g has been out for almost 2 years. Well, I guess Oracle wanted to please Mac users expecting things just work and decided that good proved 10g is the way to go. On the other hand, we’ve been supporting 11g in production for quite a while and I must say it’s much better quality compare to 10g when it came out. I’m pretty sure there was a significant customer that influenced that decision — interesting who might that be?
Anyway, there is no quick install guide for OS X but only a standard Oracle® Database Installation Guide
10g Release 2 (10.2) for Apple Mac OS X (Intel). It’s fine but if you want to install Oracle on your MacBook and not for production use then you might take some shortcuts and follow a quick instructions so I gathered my notes while installing just released Oracle Database 10.2.0.4 on my MacBook and this is what you see now.
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