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There was a good reaction to part 3 with sensible comments from people who’ve obviously ‘been there, seen it, done it, bought the t-shirt’ and handled their share of tricky system failures, so thanks to all. The comments are interesting reading for other perspectives and ideas. Although the sub-title to this part is ‘you need… Continue reading Recovery Design part 4 – You need more than one database

For the next few parts of this mini-series, I’m going to start looking at the initial high level design for the system and how well it meets the requirements. First of all I’m going to talk about the most critical database from the business perspective. I’ll call it the User Session database. It’s the most… Continue reading Recovery Design part 3 – What is it with RAC?

I sometimes think that a blog seems incomplete unless the author whines about how busy they’ve been recently. It would be easy to miscontrue that as a plea for sympathy. Maybe it is sometimes but another strong possibility is that it arises from mild feelings of guilt about posting frequency. There’s no reason to feel… Continue reading Recovery Design

I’ve certainly hinted at it before, but if there’s one good reason for Oracle techies to run Solaris 10 (or OpenSolaris) on their home equipment, it’s this. As far as I’m aware, there is nothing available on Linux which is within a million miles of DTrace in helping you see what’s happening at the operating… Continue reading DTrace

About a week ago, Peter Robson emailed the suggestion that I keep an eye out for the latest Vauxhall car advert. I paid attention for a few days, noticed a couple of showings of the advert and couldn’t work out what he was on about. Jeff Moss cleared up the mystery yesterday. It turns out… Continue reading Sorry, Peter 😉

Living up to his ‘Blogger of the Year‘ status, Eddie Awad has started a Flickr group for attendees to post photos from this week’s Oracle OpenWorld. Just looking at the first few pictures, it brought back a lot of happy memories. (Mmmm, *that’s* what the sun looks like!) Most of them seem to be of… Continue reading OOW06 Flickr Group

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OK, so the title is a cheeky and irrelevant steal from here. The truth is that I’ve been so busy with non-computer stuff, work stuff that’s vaguely computer-related 😉 and lacking in inspiration lately that I’ll take whatever material comes my way! Here are a few things hanging around my Inbox. Hopefully you’ll find something… Continue reading “You can’t open an instance and you don’t start up a database”

I was surprised to realise that it’s nearly 7 months since I bemoaned the lack of availability of 10gR2 on Solaris 10 (x86). Well, it’s been out a few weeks now and I’ve been waiting since then for a free weekend to install it on the ISP4400. One of the advantages of being busy the… Continue reading 10gR2 on Solaris 10

I’ve spent all morning installing Solaris 10 and Oracle 10gR2 on the ISP4400 and configured my first ZFS filesystem. I’ll blog about that later, but I had to get this one out of the way before Scotland play France at football at five o’clock. This is from an interview with Walter Smith, Scotland’s manager, yesterday.… Continue reading Supporting Scotland