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This morning, the display on one of my computers was a bit odd. I rebooted the machine and when it came up I got no output on the monitor. I plugged my laptop into the monitor and that worked fine, so it looked like the graphics card had died. I popped…

I thought Chronicle was a cool film. Three kids find some weird object and develop super powers. How will it affect them and how will they choose to use them?
It has the “shot on my camcorder” feel, like Cloverfield, and has a kind of Akira feel to…

Just a quick reminder that the Rocky Mountain Oracle User Group Training days are just eleven days away. It’s one of the best Oracle events I’ve attended, and I’ll be there again this year. There are plenty of good speakers and interesting presen…

With new year many new projects, new technologies, new frameworks and new ideas are springing up at the speed of light and bloggers in the database arena are keeping up with this pace and this Log Buffer Edition is also living up to that pace and cover…

Installing Oracle Weblogic Server (OWLS) 12c 12.1.1 on Microsoft Windows Vista 64 bit

In the article you will have a look at the prerequisites and steps to install Oracle Weblogic Server (OWLS) 12c on Windows Vista 64bit. For information on install…

It’s time for another landmark. The blog has just hit 2,500,000 views (taking three weeks less than the previous half million increment) – here’s a little breakdown on the numbers.
First the top five across the lifetime of the blog:

AWR / Sta…

The Google Friend Connect badge I’ve been displaying on my website homepage and this blog is no more. Google have canned that widget.  Instead it’s been replaced by a Google+ badge. Unfortunately, the G+ badges currently only support Google+ pages…

This post is not really Exadata specific, really it applies to any use of the Sun X4170 series of hardwre. And it definitely seems a long way from being a traditional DBA task. As I’ve had to perform this task a number of times recently I thought I

I have built this Mobile Oracle Apex app on a hosting provider showing temperatures on Greek islands. I used jQuery libraries and Oracle Apex Templates. This is a learning prototype.Features include:1.Hourly calls to Yahoo Weather API2.Static Google ma…

Dear Friends,Oracle have just released a detailed documentation on Database and Middleware Lifecycle Mgmt on OTN.http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E24628_01/em.121/e27046.pdfStanding at more than 700 pages, this is possibly one of the most detailed EM document…

What could possibly be common about the above things?

Sometime ago I was involved in tuning a large scale production system which experienced quite a lot of latch contention. In fact the contention was bad enough as to render the entire system unusabl…

It’s always worth browsing through the list of Oracle’s bug fixes each time a new release or patch comes out because it can give you clues about where to look for problems in your production release – and how to anticipate problems on the upgrade…

If you are wondering why anyone would possibly need to Install Oracle VM Manager in such an unsupported way, please read my previous Oracle VM 3 related blog post. In this post, I will share with you my experience installing OVMM 3.0.3 under OVM 3.0.3 …

I was delivering an 11gR2 New Features course, followed by an 11gR2 RAC accelerated course. That lead me to combine the not so widely known new view v$iostat_function with the RAC area
We can now very easy monitor what DB function is doing I/O at wha…

Original Post can be viewed at 11gR2:Listener Startup IssuesIn this blog post I will be discussing listener startup issues faced in 11gR2 RAC. I will be constantly updating this post based on my experiences or any comments on this blog post. Let’s ge…

We’ve just booked the first European venue for the Understanding Storage Masterclass. I will be presenting the Masterclass on April 24/25 2012 at Prospero House in London, tickets are available HERE. I’m pretty excited to host this training session…

Friends,The Cloud Management documentation has been enhanced and released for the public.Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Administration Guide 12c Release 1 (12.1.0.1)http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E24628_01/doc.121/e25179/toc.htmRegards,Porus.

Cloud Management in Enterprise Manager 12c is generating a huge amount of interest!! Have a look at the latest Cookbook by Oracle Product Management, this shows how to set up DbaaS (Database as a Service) step by step. Database as a Service using Oracl…

From MOS (Metalink) a search for “Patch Set – List of Bug Fixes by Problem” is a useful search, andother is “Availability and Known Issues”. Whenever you find some behaviour that looks like a bug, it’s worth checking the patch sets for the …

This post must be seen as a direct follow up to Arup Nandas Setting Up Oracle Connection Manager.As there are many references to this post, please read it first. Problem and Solution are quite similar, only the architecture is a little bit different:T…