Oracle 11g ASM Diskgroup Compatibility
Back in April I was at COLLABORATE 08 and delivered a presentation on 11g — Oracle 11g New Features...
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Oracle Silent Mode, Part 1: Installation Of 10.2 And 11.1 Databases
This post is the first of a series of ten posts that will explore some of the Oracle Universal...
Oracle RAC and gv$ Views: A Second Look
I decided to reprise my commentary on Oracle RAC and the gv$ views after reading Patrick’s comments...
Recent Changes to Oracle SE Licensing Rules: Higher Price?
Recently, while answering a question, I came across what appeared to be a change to the rules for...
Oracle 11G Result Cache in the Real World
As some of you probably already noticed, there was a thread on AskTom discussing the scalability...
Oracle RAC, v$, and gv$
According to wikipedia, “The rack is a medieval torture . . . which induces excruciating pain as...
When SHOW SLAVE STATUS and the error log Disagree
Or, When MySQL Lies! When I do a show slave status\G, sometimes mysqld will lie to me and give me a...
Oracle ASM 11g: Does the ASMCMD cp Command Really Work?
Update 21-Sep-2011: It’s definitely was a bug in an early 11g release. As cp command does work in...
Stabilize Oracle 10G's Bind Peeking Behaviour
I wrote this post because I feel there is a great need for it. The number of people struggling with...
How to Rename a Copied or Cloned ASM Disk Group
ASM is definitely one of the coolest technologies inside the Oracle Database. On the other hand,...
