Posted in ASM, Oracle, RAC, Uncategorized on March 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Another screwed up installation! Enough already. I’m going to tell you one way of doing this right.
It is a good idea for Oracle’s ASM binaries to have its own Oracle Home. Time and time again, I’ve come across installations where stuff is just broken because of this. It isn’t that ASM shouldn’t be in its [...]
Posted in ASM, Oracle, RAC on August 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I’ll be teaching a a tutorial on System Topics in Oracle Database Administration at the USENIX LISA ‘07 Conference in Dallas, TX on November 11, 2007.
Over the past couple of releases of Oracle database, the line has been blurring between that of an SA and a DBA. This blur has been created by [...]
Posted in Oracle, RAC on May 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
One concern expressed by some about Oracle clusterware is how it does fencing. Some have expressed concern about the fact that it doesn’t use SCSI-3 reservations to implement IO fencing.At COLLABORATE 07 I spoke with an Oracle employee who works in Oracle RAC product-line about this topic. I was told that in part [...]
Posted in Oracle, RAC, Solaris on April 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Bob Sneed has a great write-up on Direct IO. Great coverage and a good read.
He also offers some good advice for those considering a move to Oracle RAC.
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