‘oracle’ Archives
Don’t blindly implement Blog suggestions on your Production Servers
Don’t blindly implement Blog suggestions on your Production Servers. This post is prompted by a recent issue where in DBA had modified racgvip script based on suggestion on one of blog (won’t name it). Any such suggestions or similar to these which involve [Read More]
Oracle Patch Set update (PSU 2) released for 10.2.0.4 and 11.1.0.7
Oracle has recently released Oracle Patch Set update (PSU 2) along with CPU October 2009. As informed earlier , PSU are released quarterly along with CPU patches. If you are running 10.2.0.4 RAC database, you need to apply following patches 1) Apply Patch 8833280 [Read More]
Sqlplus connection on AIX taking too long
Recently we faced a performance issue, where in sqlplus connection from application server A (AIX 5.3) to Database server DB (different physical server,10gR2 on AIX 5.3) was taking nearly 1-2 minutes. We did some quick check’s to narrow down the problematic area.i.e [Read More]
Link:11gR2 RAC installation steps on OEL4
If you are looking for steps for 11gR2 RAC installation, you can refer to this article by Rajeev Ramdas at Dbastreet.com. Article lists down steps for installing 11gR2 RAC on 64 bit Oracle Enterprise Linux 4 (OEL4) using ASM for storage. As Raw devices are no longer [Read More]
Using Oracle Wallet to Execute Shell script/cron without hard coded Oracle database password
You have been asked to schedule a shell script which need to connect to a particular user and perform some action? How do you pass the password to script without hardcoding it in script. If password is written in a script, isn’t it a security threat? Well with 10gR2 [Read More]
Get Upgrading: Steps To Upgrade To 11gR2
As 11gR2 is out for Linux, I decided to upgrade one of my existing 10.2.0.3 database to 11.2.0.1 to get the look and feel of 11gR2. Direct upgrade to 11gR2 is supported from 9.2.0.8 or higher, 10.1.0.5 or higher, 10.2.0.2 or higher and 11.1.0.6 or higher. If you have a [Read More]
