Don Seiler

"Oracle database administrator for The Pythian Group, headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. I am located in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, USA. OCP 10gR2 DBA"

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


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

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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 ...

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Applying Oracle 11.2 April 2010 PSU for Single-Instance ASM and DBMS


When news of the April 2010 PSU for Oracle 11.2 came out, I was excited to see it, since it marked the first ...

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