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		<title>Introducing the Quarterly Database Patch for Exadata</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 23:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Fielding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hot on the heels of 11.2.0.3 coming out for Exadata, there&#8217;s yet another Exadata patch schedule out: the Quarterly Database Patch for Exadata (QDPE). They&#8217;re designed to being some of the predictability of Oracle&#8217;s quarterly critical patch updates (CPU) to the Exadata world. Behind the new naming, it looks like these are ordinary Exadata bundle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle 11.2.0.3 is now available for Exadata</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Fielding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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: There is already a bundle patch (11.2.0.3 BP1, patch 13343057) that must be installed directly after the DB [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pythian at UKOUG: Tuesday December 6</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/29427/pythian-at-ukoug-tuesday-december-6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:43:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Fielding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On tap for Tuesday is a 2-hour master class from Michael Abbey, along with an all-day drop-in RAC attack workshop with Alex Gorbachev and the RAC SIG. Using a Physical Standby to Minimize Downtime for Database Release or Server Change 11:25am, Media Suite (this is a full 2-hour master class) Michael Abbey The physical standby [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exadata Patching Overview</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/28877/exadata-patching-overview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 20:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fábio Galera</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello everyone ! For my first time posting here on the Pythian Blog, I would like to share some of my tips/notes about patching Oracle Exadata, based on my experiences and not less important, research and googling =). First, the Oracle Exadata Patch has 3 different components that should be patched. As we know about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle Database Cloud Services: A Few Initial Thoughts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 23:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Fielding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The website for Oracle Database Cloud Services at cloud.oracle.com is now online, in conjunction with Larry Ellison&#8217;s announcement during the Oracle OpenWorld keynote going on now. It&#8217;s a hosted database service running Oracle 11gR2. The database can be accessed using a hosted Oracle application server, via JDBC across the Internet, or their own RESTful API [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Comparing Oracle Database Appliance and Exadata</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/26705/comparing-oda-and-exadata/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Fielding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) is in many ways similar to an Exadata quarter rack: they both use two similar compute servers in an engineered system configuration, with shared storage and flash storage. But in other ways, especially networking and storage, they differ significantly. In particular: Storage connectivity: ODA uses SAS direct attachment, while Exadata uses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unofficial Oracle Database Appliance FAQ</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:27:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Fielding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve started putting together some information about the Oracle Database Appliance in question-and-answer form. If you have an unanswered question, ask away in the comment section below. (Update: Oracle has come out with their official FAQ as well) Why ODA? ODA offers the benefits of engineered, pre-configured systems for environments too small for Exadata. These [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Upgrading Standalone ASM to Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11.2.0.2? Beware Bug 10283819!</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/22305/upgrading-standalone-asm-to-oracle-grid-infrastructure-11-2-0-2-beware-bug-10283819/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 20:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Seiler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, this isn&#8217;t a re-post of my earlier blog about bug 1233183.1. We&#8217;ve found a fun new bug that seems to be specific to our poor standalone ASM instances when upgrading from Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11.2.0.1 to 11.2.0.2. The bug was first brought to my attention about four days after completing the Grid Infrastructure upgrade. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using a Custom Timezone? Beware Oracle 11.2.0.2 Grid Infrastructure!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 20:41:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Seiler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have a client that runs an application that, for whatever reasons, does NOT like daylight saving time. For that reason, the Oracle server is kept in Eastern Standard Time and does not change with the rest of the eastern United States when DST begins and ends every year. They accomplish this with a custom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s in your Exadata Smart Flash Cache?</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/19907/whats-in-your-exadata-smart-flash-cache/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pythian.com/news/19907/whats-in-your-exadata-smart-flash-cache/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 18:27:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christo Kutrovsky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the exclusive Exadata features is the Smart Flash Cache (Oracle White Paper PDF). On a full rack, there is 5 TB of flash cache, which can store a significant amount of data. Quite often it&#8217;s several times more than the working set for a given reporting system. What&#8217;s so cool about the Exadata [...]]]></description>
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