[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
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Laptop Performance Problem
I spent a fair few hours last month fixing problems on relatives PCs. It’s always the way, isn’t it? Once people know ‘you work with computers‘, you become a PC expert! Anyway, one of the trickier problems was with my old (well, only about 14 months old) laptop that I’ve passed over to Mads. Performance… Continue reading Laptop Performance Problem
The Reality Gap (3) – A Single Instance per Server
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
Human Error Competition
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
RAC and AIX – continued
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
The Reality Gap (2) – Disaster Recovery
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
RAC and AIX
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
Swanny Says (2) …
Just fire it right in.
Parallel Tidbits
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