Using Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager (OLVM) to Restrict Cores
Organizations usually maintain Oracle licences for Oracle RDBMS Enterprise Edition on a per-core...
Pythian Blog: Data Analytics, Cloud Computing, and Database Management | Luke Davies
RAC – Clusterware Intermittently Fails to Start
While working on a new Grid Infrastructure installation on Red Hat V8.4, we had some issues testing...
Shutdown while upgrading to 18c
My colleague and friend Gleb Otochkin has already blogged about installing 18c - Installing Oracle...
Mysterious rollback and replay with partitions
Recently I had a situation where I was loading a partitioned table and during the load, which was...
Online resizing of ASM disks
The SAN administrator has informed us that they have extended the disks. This is the information I...
Read GoldenGate Discard Files
GoldenGate discard files can get big and cumbersome. This, of course, depends on many factors, such...
AQ Notifications in Oracle 11gR1
The AQ notification process has changed from release 10gR2 to 11gR1. The most notable change is the...
Undocumented parameter _fix_control: How to break your database
Beware this parameter can prevent your database from starting. Indeed it can prevent your instance...
