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DOAG Konferenz 2009: Impressions Day 2

As promised, today my impressions of yesterday (confusing, I know). Clarification: This is about Wednesday, November 18th. I’m still at DOAG Conference 2009 in Nuremberg. Wednesday was a silent day for my interests, especially at noon there have been less talks being of interest, but maybe they have done something for my general knowledge… So […]

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DOAG Konferenz 2009: Impressions Day 1

These days, the DOAG Conference 2009 happens in Nuremberg, Germany. First day was yesterday, Tuesday November 11th 2009. This is a machine-readable copy of my scratchpad, coming from the different talks I attended. Sun Oracle Database Machine Exadata 2: The “Quarter Rack” (consisting of 2 Servers and 3 storage nodes) sounds interesting. 11gR2 has some […]

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Oracle 11gR2 ASM / ACFS: A first benchmark (poorly)

Hi folks, since Oracle 11g Release 2 is out now, I had to test one of the most-missed ASM features: the ASM cluster file system ACFS. My Setup: Two VMware nodes with 2 CPUs and 1,5GB of RAM each Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.3 x86_64 Four virtual cluster disks from the ESX server, 10GB in size […]

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Oracle 11gR2 ASM: Changed permission policy (ORA-15260)

Did you recently see the new error ‘ORA-15260: permission denied on ASM disk group’ in your ASM administration? Maybe you are still connected as SYSDBA, old habit from 10g? A quick citation from the Oracle Docs: The SYSOPER privilege permits the following subset of the ALTER DISKGROUP operations: diskgroup_availability, rebalance_diskgroup_clause, check_diskgroup_clause (without the REPAIR option). […]

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Oracle 11g look-at’s

That’s a personal, quite unsorted list of (new or older) features I recently collected. All of them are things, I’d consider valuable or at least important to care about as soon as 11g is involved. It might be for system architecture knowledge, concept tasks, DBA hands-on, good-to-know or any other thing that my happen in […]

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Lecture “Highly available Communications Server” (Oracle Database) at DOAG conference 2007

Hi, I’ll give a lecture about high availability with Oracle RAC and Dataguard at DOAG Conference 2007 (annual conference of the German Oracle User’s Group). The talk will be in German. (“Ein hochverfügbarer Kommunikationsserver mit RAC, ASM, redundant shared media und DataGuard”) When? Thursday, November 22nd 2007 1300hrs Where? CCN CongressCenter Nürnberg Ost Messezentrum D-90471 […]

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