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Whilst I might admire Alex G’s new BAAG party, I have less lofty ideals. My personal battle is against people who keep offering the following sage advice to the crucial question – How do I backup my database? As UNIX user oracle run: TODAY=`date “+%Y-%m-%d”` FILE=$TODAY-$ORACLE_SID.dat exp system/manager file=$FILE consistent=y full=y compress=n gzip $FILE There… Continue reading Sigh

I’m sure many people will be delighted to see that Tanel Poder has started a blog. A technical anti-dote to cuddly toy nonsense! Welcome, Tanel

A new title on the Non-Employee section of blogs.oracle.com NON-EMPLOYEE BLOGS (that we know of) …. 😉 A series of articles on learning DTrace. I think these look like a great introduction and are far more useful than any presentation slides I have. They’ve also made me reconsider some of the DTrace blogs I’d planned.… Continue reading A Few Things I’ve Noticed Recently

OK, I finally have a few technical things worth blogging about, so let me get this non-technical one wrapped up first. Here’s part 1. The other part of Kevin’s blog that was very relevant to my recent musings was the section titled ‘Aristocracy or Meritocracy‘. He talks about the close contact he enjoys with some… Continue reading blogs.oracle.com … part 2

A problem cropped up at work this week and, whilst it wasn’t particularly tricky and didn’t take long to solve, it struck me that the story of tracking it down might be useful and you might hit the problem yourself one day. A recently-deployed Data Warehouse database at work has a series of ‘LANDING’ tables.… Continue reading Non-reusable Space?

I actually woke up early today to write this blog as I wanted to sleep on it first and blogging on-site is a real no-no. Anyway … Many of you will remember the ongoing shenanigans around Justin Kestelyn’s complaints about how Oracle is perceived by the Web 2.0 community. I had my little rant and,… Continue reading blogs.oracle.com, Oracle Ace, OTN, does any of it matter?

What a week! It’s a long blog posting, but it feels like it was a very long week … I was so tired by the end of it that I can only imagine just how shattered Thomas Presslie must have been after all of the organisation. Having witnessed some of what’s involved in putting a… Continue reading Miracle Scotland Database Forum and an Apology

While Douglas lies sleeping, recovering from several nights of geek revelry, we’d like to take this opportunity to reveal the truth about that man’s morals and reliability. (N.B. The Dog can use the laptop and is familiar with Serendipity’s user interface, but be assured that he’s voicing our collective opinion.) Imagine how you would feel… Continue reading A Cuddly Toy Writes …

Work is a little busy at the moment, but I had time to look at this a bit more today … Many thanks for the useful follow-up comments on the last posting. They were very interesting and if I’d picked them up in some of my Google searches, we might have solved the problem more… Continue reading Listener bug – Part 2

Today I solved a nasty intermittent problem we’d been having on one of our Production servers so I thought I’d blog about it here in case it saves someone else some pain. The symptoms were 1) No-one was able to connect to the database. 2) There were two listener processes running, which was apparent from… Continue reading 10.2.0.2 Listener bug, new child listener process forked