Advt: Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control: Managing Data Center Chaos

My friend and former ACE Director Porus Homi Havewala's new book on  Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control, will be available in September 2012  or earlier, perhaps the First EM 12c Cloud Control book in the world.   If you are interested in learning about the capabilities of Enterprise Manager 12c, please have a look. The book can be pre-ordered in advance. Electronic copies  will be

Ad: Interesting webinars lined up at RedGate – dont miss it

Hi everyone, In case if you haven't come across, here is a very quick update about some of the very interesting webinars lined-up at RedGate by world top most known Oracle gurus, such as (in no particular order), Jonathan Lewis,  Carry Milsap, Tom Kyte, Doug Burns, Ron Crisco and Randolf Geist. The topics are listed hereunder: 24 May 2012     Agile Schema Design    by Ron Crisco, Method R

Yet another Oracle SIG born – IOUG Virtualization SIG

Good news for those who are interested in Oracle and Virtualization technologies. Yet another Oracle SIG commenced to help the community. Excerpt from IOUG Virtualization SIG page: IOUG Virtualization SIG Virtualization is the foundation stone in the Cloud Computing space and an integral part of the IT ecosystem. The IOUG Virtualization SIG is dedicated to communication and information

Upcoming Webinar – Migrate single instance database to RAC

Interested knowing about all existing methods to migrate your existing single instance database to RAC? Attend my upcoming webinar 'Migrate single instance database to RAC - 360 degrees' on 29/3/2012. The webinar is sponsored and hosted by RedGate . Register here Abstract: On Oracle Database administrators have to deal with numerous challenges whilst migrating an existing non-cluster

Oracle 11gR2 addNode.sh fail with SEVERE:Cannot perform add node proceduure

Since December 2011, we have been struggling with an issue whilst adding two new nodes to our existing Oracle 11gR2 cluster that is running over HPUX platform. Just for the records, this environment had been recently upgraded from 10gR2 to 11gR2 and successfully applied the PSU (11.2.0.2.4) in the recent past to over come from a significant number of Oracle bugs that we confronted. We simple

Oracle Database Webinars Video Archive

Hi all, A very quick note about the webinar's conducted at All Things Oracle on Oracle technologies presented by many well known Oracle gurus and experts. If you have missed the opportunity to attend the live webinars, here is the link to listen to the recorded webinar, additionally, you can also download the presentation (PDF format): http://www.red-gate.com/products/oracle-development/

My upcoming webinar on 11gR2 clusterware upgrade

Hi everyone, A very quick update about my upcoming webinar on 9th Feb 2012 titled 'Upgrading to 11gR2 - a case study' where I will be sharing all my experience, tips and techniques of a successful 11gR2 upgrade project. The upgrade project gave us an opportunity to work with 4 cluster environments with nearly 400 databases, a complex environment.It was indeed a roller coaster journey. Be there

An easy way to obtain 10053 trace

I have just learnt a couple of new methods to obtain an Optimizer (10053) trace for any sql statement that is already in the cache, without actually executing it and also enabling 'events infrastructure'. With 11gR2 onwards, you can either use the DBMS_SQLDIAG.DUMP_TRACE package procedure or use new diagnostic events infrastructure to obtain the 10053 trace for a given sql_id. Demonstration 1:

Advt: Sangam11 – All India Oracle User’s Group annual conference

Sangam11, AIOUG's annual conference kicks off on 9th December 2011 for two days, a very good opportunity not to miss if you around in India! Third time in a row AIOUG is conducting the annual conference SANGAM with several world's best known Oracle speakers. Last year, it was Jonathan Lewis and this year it is going to be world renowned Expert Arup Nanda who will be the Key presenter and