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(Yet another arrived in San Francisco blog) I almost got around to typing this yesterday but it felt like a longer than usual journey and in the end I was awake for 27 hours. Normally I’m good at napping on planes, but not a wink this time and I managed to leave Tapio’s indexing book… Continue reading yaaisfb

[Damn – lost my wireless connection so having to retype it. Time to prepare blogs outside of the Serendipity Admin interface] Despite still feeling spaced out, I managed to have a quick stroll round this morning and attend my first presentation. I can see just how much things have grown since I was last here… Continue reading OOW2007 – and so it begins

There will probably be about four or five of these posts in total. This is one I didn’t mention in the original presentation because I didn’t feel I could do it justice and because there was someone I wanted to have the right to reply. Step forward Tom Kyte. By coincidence, this question and answer… Continue reading The Reality Gap (3) – A Single Instance per Server

In the comments to the last post, Gregory suggested a blog thread to collect people’s favourite (or not-so-favourite) stories of “Human Errors”. As Gregory said … “I wish somebody could create a post to collect all the “Human Errors” (I’m sure people are very creative when generating “Fun”).” Post your best story here or, because… Continue reading Human Error Competition

If I was to believe Metalink Note 368916.1 (see previous post), then the HACMP software must be installed on the server we were installing 9.2.0.8 on. However, having reviewed /etc/inittab and investigating whether cluster services were running, it looked like HACMP wasn’t in use. We checked with one of our Sys Admin colleagues and he… Continue reading RAC and AIX – continued

I’m going to keep this one short and sweet because I’ve talked about it before. Because it’s based around a single shared database, RAC will not (and was never designed to) protect you from Database corruption Erroneous updates or deletes by a user (or DBA!) More to the point, all of the following tools will… Continue reading The Reality Gap (2) – Disaster Recovery

One of the interesting aspects of working at my current site is that the DBAs don’t install Oracle. Yes, I know, and I’m not going to elaborate on that statement other than to say it’s a little frustrating and software management has become a much more interesting experience than I ever imagined it would be!… Continue reading RAC and AIX

A couple of small things I noticed recently. The first was a mention of the presence of Bloom Filters in PX plans over on Greg Rahn’s blog, another one that I picked up through OraNA which looks very interesting. Greg’s looking for ideas for performance related blogs at the moment, so you might have some… Continue reading Parallel Tidbits

It’s very unlikely that anyone who reads this blog wouldn’t have noticed Jonathan Lewis’ advert for a couple of interesing seminars coming up in Holland but, just in case. I can’t get more time off to go, personally, but give me a shout if you’re interested … (maybe I could swing a discount?)

I finally got my act together enough last week to put my Openworld agenda together. That was difficult, not just because there were a lot of conflicts to resolve, but also because the interface could be a lot better as APC pointed out here. I was surprised just how many sessions I was interested in… Continue reading Openworld