Thought I would spend my lunch hour with my Training Days Director hat on and telling folks about RMOUG Training Days 2013 today. Tomorrow is the last day to take advantage of early bird pricing. If interested in the details, click here. The conference, as many know will be held on February 12th and 13th with the 11th reserved for OTN Day, University Sessions and Cary Millsap’s Mastering Trace Data. Tomorrow is the last day to get the great early bird pricing for registration, so it’s a great time to get in on the best price for 150+ sessions, take…
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If you are interested in a replay for my webinar with Redgate on the EM CLI, (Enterprise Manager Command Line Interface) it can be found here. The corresponding slides, including scripts and syntax explanations are located on Enkitec’s slideshare link here. Hopefully you will start seeing more from me in the future as I’ve now recovered from the last six weeks of “fun” and am back on my feet! 🙂
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I had the opportunity to speak yesterday at the NoCOUG, (Northern California Oracle User Group) Fall Conference and today at the RMOUG, (Rocky Mtn. Oracle User Group) Quarterly Education Workshop. Why? Considering I had surgery this last Saturday, I may be a glutton for punishment, but I did enjoy both events, (RMOUG’s is still going on right now as I type this post… :)) I did the same presentation for both events, my “Sherlock Holmes for the DBA”, a favorite that goes through optimization features available in Oracle, (ASH, AWR and tracing) along with how and why to perform optimization…
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I love EM12c, don’t get me wrong. I wouldn’t post about it so much in my blog, tweet about it, working on two Apress books in support of the product if I didn’t. The features, the broad range of support it provides the future of the database and development arena for Oracle is something that many have only dreamed about. The problem is, some would say, is that some dreamed a bit too much and forgot to dot their i’s and cross their t’s. Then when offered a work around to an i that wasn’t dotted or a t uncrossed,…
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Upon re-entering the Oracle EBS world, I had to once again familiarize myself with patching, which, as anyone know, is the cornerstone of all Apps DBA’s activities…:) Challenge is, the web docs on how to perform a simple apps tier patch is not often easily located, so I thought I would put this out here for others reference. 1. Download the patch, as instructed by Oracle Support and also read the “Read Me”. Verify that the only task is an App Tier patch, which these instructions will cover. 2. Once you have SCP’d the patch download to the Apps Tier…
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A couple folks have emailed me, looking for my slides from Oracle Open World. Both presentations can be viewed here at Enktiec’s website, along with all my great coworker’s presentations, as well. If you are still looking for my interview with Oracle Technology Network on contributing to the Oracle community and User group involvement, that can be found here. I’m thoroughly busy right now with KSCOPE database track abstract selection, the RMOUG Training Days planning and abstract selection and finishing up the chapters along with my wonderful co-authors on the EM12c book for Apress. I’m really proud of this collaboration…
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Its the beginning of Wednesday and I’m finally attending a few sessions, other than my own, which also means that I have solid WiFi, too. We are staying at the Hilton with most of the other ACE Directors, but residence in tower three around the pool appears to be similar to the third circle of hell when it comes to any type of service no matter if we refer to WiFi or even cellphone service. My sessions on Sunday were a joy to present. I was quite nervous about presenting on no surprise deployments, as it was the first time…
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It’s less than a week away for me and I’ve finally dug myself out of the hole that I created for myself, (nothing like digging your own grave, let me tell you… :)) Tim and I will be taking the California Zephyr train out again this year. After the wonderful trip last year, we upgraded our reservations this year for the 33hr trip out and I also upgraded my camera to make the most of the fall aspen colors that we’ll experience on the trip out! I can’t say enough about this trip, it is lovely, get to bypass all…
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I would like to thank James Murtagh, Redgate and everyone who attended the webinar today on ASH and AWR Performance Data. You can find my slides at the Redgate site and here. I have added links in a new section of my Scripts tab on this site with all the ASH queries, please let me know if you see any that appear to be missing, I uploaded these pretty quick before returning to assist a client this morning! 🙂 Thank you again to Redgate and to all those who joined us!
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While cleaning up a development environment the other day, attempted to drop a tablespace and received the error ORA-01555, Rollback Segment 0 with Name “system” too Small… A quick search on google pointed me to the MOS doc 862469.1 which results in both ORA-604 and ORA-1555 on the SYSTEM RBS and assures the reader that this is not a code bug in Oracle, but rather is due to the system rollback segment being too small. Due to a fix for bug 7313166, it is now possible for data dictionary transaction binding to generate much larger amounts of undo than before. …
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Yes, it was HOT! We are not talking just the conference here, but San Antonio in June, especially this June, which meant the conference could only held at a resort with a water park onsite. If you hadn’t taken a gander at the JW Marriott resort in San Antonio, please enjoy one of my pictures from the fifth floor of the resort: This was a welcome release from the heat on many a day, (yes, some of us attended the “Lazy River Symposium” on Sunday instead of the ones offered through the conferences…:)) and after the sessions during the weekdays.…
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I’ve been part of multiple conversations, via Twitter, Facebook, personal and professional email on the choice of housing Enterprise Managers on a Virtual Machine. Now in the title, I am not to be taken seriously, this is a bit of sarcasm, so please know, I am having a bit of fun with the title and hope to seriously look the logic of why I avoid VM’s for my Enterprise Manager homes. The conversations didn’t get heated, but included many who were passionately against an EM on VM, another set who stated that “Virtualization is the future, including the Enterprise Manager- …
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Flashback Recovery Area is a common gotcha in many locations as time goes by, so I thought it might be worthwhile to review, since for me, it’s all new. My last two shops, due to design, had no use for it… Flashback Recovery Area, (FRA) is an intriguing feature and should not be confused as the same as the flashback feature- The ability to flashback to a given time or flashback a table when something has gone wrong has benefits over recovery that is easy for anyone who’s had the to perform either task can appertain. Per Andy Colvin,…
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These are instructions that allowed me to migrate over a large library of EM12c jobs from an existing, split EM console, (Linux) and OMS Repository(Windows) to a single server environment without requiring me to recreate them new. Disclaimer** The migration is a multi-step process that was performed on: A NEW EM12c 12.0.1.0 with the latest bundle patch, OS 64-bit Linux 11.2.0.3.0 repository a FULL backup of the OMS repository before performing. A full documentation of your EM jobs that are up to date! The source environment the EM jobs were datapumped from: 11.2.0.3.0 OMS repository on Windows 2008 EM12c, without…
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I ended up so wrapped up in everything going on when I returned home that I never did get my Miracle Oracle World 2012 post out on my blog, (bad DBA Goth Princess!:)) so here it is! Miracle Oracle World, (aka MOW2012, hashtag #MOW2012) is a yearly event held by Mogens Noorgard and his company Miracle, (http://www.miracleas.dk/ ) at Hotel Legoland in Billund, Denmark each year. This year was no exception and I was thrilled when Mogens asked me while in attendance at RMOUG’s Training Days if I would come to Denmark and do my presentation on EM12c, (then let…
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Anyone interested in viewing the PDF to either of my presentations from MOW2012, which was held in Billund, Denmark this last week, the slides are now available via the following links: Making EM12c Work for You and ASH Analytics, Top Activity the Next Generation If you have any questions, please let me know, I’ll be glad to add the speaker content that may not be visible in the slides! ~Kellyn
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I am preparing to fly out to Denmark tomorrow for Miracle Open World, 2012 in Billund, Denmark, MOW2012 It will be my first time to Europe, so I’m highly anticipating the journey and conference. I also had the pleasure of guest blogging on ODTUG’s blog this week: ODTUG’s Blog I’m all packed, ready to go and ramping up for KSCOPE 2012 in June!! Enkitec will have a huge booth, no doubt and we will have a solid group of folks speaking at the event!
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~ The least questioned assumptions are often the most questionable ~ Paul Broca I’ve always found assumptions to be one of the most common cause of failures in software releases/maintenance windows. If I had a dime for every time I’ve heard, “I thought you were going to take care of/do that…” or “I didn’t involve you earlier because I thought the steps you were responsible for were so easy…”, well, you know the saying and I’d be rich. Assumptions causing participation of the DBA too late into a project, release or maintenance is widespread enough when you are onsite, but…