The Seasons of a DBA
As busy as I am these days, I am seeing a light at the end of the tunnel, (no, it’s not
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Making Technology Bulletproof
Author: Kellyn Gorman
When RMAN Cloning Goes Bad…
One of the options for cloning an environment with limited disk space involves creating a parameters file for the RMAN
Read MoreBuilding Right or Build Twice- That is the Question…
This question seems to pop into my mind consistently over the years as a DBA. I’m a “build it right or don’t
Read MoreSimple Reporting Without Materialized Views
A common initial resolution to reporting requirements without a reporting database is to utilize materialized views. Unfortunately, the cost to
Read MoreTransactional and Reporting
In my years as an Oracle and SQL Server DBA and the many technical environments I’ve worked in, there’s almost always one database in each
Read MoreRMOUG 2011 Abstract Started
I’ve started working on my abstract to submit for RMOUG 2011. I want to present on some of the CBO challenges I’ve
Read MoreParallel with 11G
Sigh….IF I could only live in “Uncle Larry’s” perfect database world where I have more control over what choices are
Read MoreDBA Crushes
A little off technical topic and (hopefully) in good humor, I want to talk about DBA crushes. Most techies have
Read MoreLink to RMOUG Presentation/Papers
Oblivious as I am at times, just realized how difficult it might be for anyone looking for my RMOUG presentation
Read MoreOEM OC4J False Down/Timeouts
After upgrading to 10.2.0.5 on Linux, our Oracle Enterprise Manager would report intermittently that the OC4J was down- Target Name=EnterpriseManager0.serve3r
Read MoreNew Temp Tablespace Group
I know I owe a few folks a blog on temp tablespace groups- THANK YOU for your patience, I know
Read MoreBalance to Protect and Utilize Unique I/O Fusion Card Data
Let’s say you have a database that everything can be recreated just by re-running a process and no nightly backups
Read MoreORA-02050 Remote DB in Doubt? How About Gone for Years??
Interesting Issue… I was working on an interrupted distributed, (remote) transaction that I’d come across in one of our smaller
Read MoreRMOUG 2010
I attended, (and presented) at RMOUG this year and although it wasn’t as much of a “class reunion” as I
Read MoreDealing with Bind Variable Peeking
Tanel Poder had a great post about bind variable peeking, http://blog.tanelpoder.com/2010/02/02/bind-variable-peeking-execution-plan-inefficiency/ I run into this exact issue more often than
Read MoreWhen Parallel is Wrong
The Lead Developer and I have been working very, very hard on tuning the main process that produces much of
Read MoreRMOUG Deadbeat
Do you ever get that feeling that something just isn’t right, but you have no experience to go on and
Read MoreTo Patch or Not to Patch, that is the Question…
I’ve found myself “whining” in the middle of an Oracle Freelist email conversations in regards to patching- or the actual need
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