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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 Q4 2011 Events &amp; Webinars &#8211; Oracle Database Appliance &amp; more</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 22:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa Simmons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pythian continues to have a busy quarter with events right up to the end of the 2011 calendar year. If you happened to miss us at a past event, email events@pythian.com to reconnect or request a copy of the any of the presentations we&#8217;ve made through 2011 or earlier. Live events Ottawa, ON &#8211; Nov. [...]]]></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>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/26701/oracle-database-appliance-faq/</link>
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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>Pythian Speaking at Oracle OpenWorld 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 20:31:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa Simmons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pythian is pleased to announce our speaking schedule at this year&#8217;s Oracle OpenWorld 2011, October 2-6, 2011 in San Francisco, CA. We&#8217;re excited to be joined by our customers Western Union, and Worldwide Technologies (WWT) as we present real-world experiences and project success. If you&#8217;re attending, don&#8217;t miss the chance to hear our team of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using a Custom Timezone? Beware Oracle 11.2.0.2 Grid Infrastructure!</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/23885/using-a-custom-timezone-beware-oracle-11-2-0-2-grid-infrastructure/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pythian.com/news/23885/using-a-custom-timezone-beware-oracle-11-2-0-2-grid-infrastructure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 20:41:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Seiler</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pythian.com/news/?p=23885</guid>
		<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>5 days left &#8211; vote for Pythian sessions at Oracle OpenWorld 2011 on Oracle Mix</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/23709/5-days-left-vote-for-pythian-sessions-at-oracle-openworld-2011-on-oracle-mix/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pythian.com/news/23709/5-days-left-vote-for-pythian-sessions-at-oracle-openworld-2011-on-oracle-mix/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 21:37:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vanessa Simmons</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pythian.com/news/?p=23709</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Summer&#8217;s here, and that means it&#8217;s time to start thinking about Oracle OpenWorld 2011, October 2-6th, 2011 in San Francisco. Pythian&#8217;s plans are well underway. We have been busily planning since March, have submitted a number of abstracts on all sorts of topics: Exadata, ASM, GoldenGate, ADR, ASM, many based on real world experiences with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Database Migration to ASM</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/22977/database-migration-to-asm/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pythian.com/news/22977/database-migration-to-asm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 11:47:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nalgonda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was working on a task of 10g Active-Passive cluster design where I was supposed to migrate a database to ASM from conventional filesystem. So I thought of writing this blog. Below are the steps which I followed to move the database to ASM and then created a spfile in ASM diskgroup in the end. 1) Set [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Updating ASMLIB driver using &#8220;update-driver&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/18977/updating-asmlib-driver-using-update-driver/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 18:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gleb Otochkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is a controversial question whether use or not ASMLIB for manage disks for a ASM instance but I don&#8217;t want to start a new discussion about it in this post. I want to talk about updating ASMLIB after or before updating kernel version. We know that the ASMLIB driver is kernel dependent and has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Upgrading Standalone ASM to Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11.2.0.2? Beware Bug 1233183.1!</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/18925/upgrading-standalone-asm-to-oracle-grid-infrastructure-11-2-0-2-beware-bug-1233183-1/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pythian.com/news/18925/upgrading-standalone-asm-to-oracle-grid-infrastructure-11-2-0-2-beware-bug-1233183-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 23:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Seiler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The past four days have found me very frustrated and at wits&#8217; 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. Looking [...]]]></description>
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