• Oracle Basics

    Oracle RAC 101: Architecture, Configuration, and Real-Time Scalability

    The request of me today was to start blogging on Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) so here we go, down into the rabbit hole!  I admit fully to having a love/hate relationship with RAC.  I love redundancy, scalability, and instance resiliency in RAC beneficial, but many of the unnecessary complexities and overhead frustrates me.  I absolutely come up against traditional OLTP workloads that scream out for RAC to scale to the level they require day-to-day, but also know there’s a ceiling that will be reached that RAC can’t solve, requiring at some point for database design, code and application to…

  • Oracle

    Cluster Cache Coherency in EM12c

    January is winding down and RMOUG Training Days 2015 is just around the corner, taking up much of my after work hours. With that, we are going to discuss a great performance console in the EM12c cloud control-  Cluster Cache Coherency. Cluster Cache Coherency Optimization for an Oracle Real Application Cluster, (RAC) can be a daunting tasks for those that aren’t familiar with some of the most common issues to look for.  Although many aspects of a single instance must always be examined, knowing what is unique to RAC is important.  Be aware that Enterprise Manager is completely RAC Aware…