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Oracle E-Business Suite

EBS DBA: R12.1.2 Another Step for Automated Vanilla EBS Cloning

As many of you know a cloning is one of the most DBA time consuming operations. For the first few times an Apps DBA may ...

Microsoft SQL Server

SQL Server: More light shed on "non-yielding scheduler" and Indexes stats

SQL server folks may find the "non-yielding scheduler" warning familiar and it is usually (if not always) associated ...

Microsoft SQL Server

SSIS tip: Set variables' values interactively in SSIS packages

Debugging This is a little tip for those who develop SSIS packages.

Oracle

Oracle's OPT_ESTIMATE hint: Usage Guide

It's one of those hints that you've heard about many times, but all the information is scattered, and finding what you ...

Oracle

Oracle 11gR2 Grid Infrastructure -- Memory Footprint

Upgrading to 11g Release Grid Infrastructure? You probably want to read on...

Microsoft SQL Server

Using UNPIVOT with CDC Functions to get Updated Columns List

Microsoft introduced Change Data Capture (CDC) technology in SQL Server 2008. This technology captures DML ...

Oracle

Exadata's Best Kept Secret: Storage Indexes

While features like Smart Scan often steal the spotlight in Exadata discussions, Storage Indexes are a silent ...

Oracle E-Business Suite

EBS DBA: WF Mailer Override Address and Cloning: How to

I just recently faced an issue regarding how to automate the Workflow Mailer override address for development and ...

Oracle

Exadata TPC Benchmarks

Notice One of the questions in my webinar this week related to TPC benchmark results for Exadata. Kevin Closson blogged ...

Oracle

Physical Disk, Cell Disk, Grid Disk, and ASM Disk in Exadata

Exadata is the Ferrari of the technology world. It’s considered the technology for the select few, but everyone dreams ...

Oracle

Cloning Oracle Home from RAC to Stand-Alone

This should have been the easiest task on my todo list: Install Oracle 10.2.0.3 EE standalone on a new Linux RHEL 5 ...

Oracle

DBD::Oracle and Windows 64bit

I have successfully compiled and installed DBD::Oracle on Windows 2008 Server 64bit operating system today. I used the ...

Oracle

Emergency Recovery or RMAN DUPLICATE Rerun Just Works!

Working as a DBA often means facing high-pressure situations, especially during an on-call weekend. Recently, I was ...

Oracle

Data Pump Monitoring

During database maintenance, one of the most critical questions is: "When will it be finished?" Whether it is an ...

Oracle

Oracle GoldenGate Installation, Part 1

I want to introduce several post about Oracle GoldenGate (GG), a relatively new replication software from Oracle. We ...

MySQL

How I Find MySQL Fragmentation

Background Sarah Novotny recently posted InnoDB Tablespace Fragmentation – Find it and Fix it, so I thought I would ...

Oracle

Chopt Utility

Introduction There is a new tool came with Oracle 11g Rel.2 that helps to modify options in installed oracle home ...

Oracle

Patching an 11gR2 Grid Infrastructure Home

Introduction The process for applying a patch on top of the CRS, or now called, the Grid Infrastructure, has changed ...

Microsoft SQL Server

Check URL status from SQL server

One of our clients has a public web page and they needed to ensure that it is always up and accessible. Pythian already ...

Oracle

AWR Extract and Load

Introduction In preparing my presentation for the Michigan Oak Table Symposium, I came across AWR extract and load. ...

Redo Transport Compression

I was co-presenting recently at Sydney Oracle Meetup about Data Guard Compression and in preparation I did some tests ...

Oracle

Exadata smart scans and the flash cache

Context One of the key features of Exadata V2 is the flash cache. Although commonly thought of as an OLTP-specific ...

MySQL

Notes on Learning MySQL (as an Oracle DBA)

I spent some time last month getting up to speed on MySQL. One of the nice perks of working at Pythian is the ability ...

Oracle

Beware the /var/tmp/.oracle Hidden Directory!

Background A few months ago, we had a test instance complaining that it couldn’t write to ASM. This was an 11.1.0.7 ...

Oracle

Installing Oracle 11gR2 Enterprise Edition on Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)

I recently reformatted my laptop with the latest Ubuntu LTS release, 10.04, aka Lucid Lynx. Since I like to have a ...

Oracle

Designing for Exadata: Maximizing Storage Indexes Use

Oracle Exadata V2 is a very well balanced database machine combined with smart and innovative software. One of these ...

Oracle

Oracle GoldenGate Extract Internals, Part III

This is the third post in the Oracle GoldenGate Extract Internals series (links to part I and part II). In this post, ...

Oracle

Oracle GoldenGate Extract Internals, Part I

Since GoldenGate has been declared as a strategic direction for replication technology by Oracle, it sounds like it’s ...

Cloud

Oracle: What is an Unrecoverable Data File?

A data file is considered unrecoverable if an unrecoverable operation has been performed on an object residing in the ...

Oracle

A grand tour of Oracle Exadata, Part 2

After covering hardware components of Sun Oracle Database Machine in part 1, our grand tour continues with a look at ...

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EBS DBA: R12.1.2 Another Step for Automated Vanilla EBS Cloning

SQL Server: More light shed on "non-yielding scheduler" and Indexes stats

SSIS tip: Set variables' values interactively in SSIS packages

Oracle's OPT_ESTIMATE hint: Usage Guide

Oracle 11gR2 Grid Infrastructure -- Memory Footprint

Using UNPIVOT with CDC Functions to get Updated Columns List

Exadata's Best Kept Secret: Storage Indexes

EBS DBA: WF Mailer Override Address and Cloning: How to

Exadata TPC Benchmarks

Physical Disk, Cell Disk, Grid Disk, and ASM Disk in Exadata

Cloning Oracle Home from RAC to Stand-Alone

DBD::Oracle and Windows 64bit

Emergency Recovery or RMAN DUPLICATE Rerun Just Works!

Data Pump Monitoring

Oracle GoldenGate Installation, Part 1

How I Find MySQL Fragmentation

Chopt Utility

Patching an 11gR2 Grid Infrastructure Home

Check URL status from SQL server

AWR Extract and Load

Redo Transport Compression

Exadata smart scans and the flash cache

Notes on Learning MySQL (as an Oracle DBA)

Beware the /var/tmp/.oracle Hidden Directory!

Installing Oracle 11gR2 Enterprise Edition on Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)

Designing for Exadata: Maximizing Storage Indexes Use

Oracle GoldenGate Extract Internals, Part III

Oracle GoldenGate Extract Internals, Part I

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