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What a horrible week it’s been from a technical perspective. I decided mid-way through the previous week that I was going to bite the bullet, give up on DTrace for a while and install Linux on the server so I could run the PX tests on 11g. Then Jeff Moss sent me an email to… Continue reading One Day Soon, I’ll Install Something

As a post-script to the earlier blogs, Alex Gorbachev suggested a link to his UKOUG 2006 presentation in this area might prove useful and I agree. So here it is.

As a follow-up to my DTrace and Oracle overview presentation at the MSDBF … I highlighted that DTrace is not just a Solaris 10 tool. It could be ported to other Operating Systems with Sun’s encouragement and BSD and OS-X are early examples of this. I also mentioned that IBM are bringing out a DTrace-like… Continue reading DTrace and Linux

(and I’m writing this from a positive perspective) Now that the community is over the initial ‘Look over, there! It’s 11g!!!!’, there are some genuinely interesting blogs kicking around. (Maybe we need to give these things a little time?) I’d better only talk about a couple, though, or Dave Edwards will start telling me off… Continue reading That’s More Like It!

Sorry, I shouldn’t be so sarcastic, but try to show some sympathy for my schedule. Thursday 9th August 22:30 BST – Go to bed, unusually early. Friday 10th 06:00 BST – Wake up, check Netvibes and noticed several 11g release blogs, including Eddie’s initial notification and Howard’s installation! 07:30 BST – Leave for my current… Continue reading Does Anyone Know When 11g Will Be Released?

It looks like Oracle-WTF has been kidnapped. If anyone has William’s email address to hand, perhaps they could let him know? 🙁

After solving the jigsaw puzzle and waiting for tape drives to do their thing, we’ve finally got a running test instance accessing a full copy of production. (Well, there was some recovery, faffing around with database names, control files, tempfiles, putting the database in noarchivelog mode and the rest, but there are plenty of Oracle… Continue reading Full Volume Database Refresh – Part 3

First the good news. “The Refresh from Hell” (because it was) has become “The Slightly Tricky Refresh“. It only took 6.5 hours on Sunday (in time to watch Celtic’s first match of the season) and apart from a couple of minor panics along the way, it went well. Anyway, back to the overall process, with… Continue reading Full Volume Database Refresh – Part 2

(… or the Refresh from Hell) This weekend will be the final practice run (there’s been one already) for a database refresh procedure I’ll be working on for a further four weekends. It’s a full copy of one of our production databases that forms part of a user acceptance test environment for a significant application… Continue reading Full Volume Database Refresh – Part 1

… and walk away. In the course of the past year, I’ve heard more than one person suggest that Jonathan Lewis should stop debunking Don Burleson’s arguments. Their opinion is that it makes Jonathan look narrow-minded and spiteful and that he should simply ignore Don, stop giving him extra publicity and he’ll go away. Here’s… Continue reading Why you can’t just say ‘Stop feeding the troll’ …