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OOW Day 2: Oracle Linux developements & news

This second day at the Oracle Open World is hotter than the previous one! Today, we focused on Oracle Linux. Oracle Linux roadmap, the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK) release 3 is coming in summer 2013. Oracle’s strategy consists of developing(…)

OOW Day 2: Enjoying Oracle’s Real World Performance show

I have had the pleasure to go the Real World Performance presentation with the famous Tom Kyte of the Ask Tom blog, Andrew Holdsworth, Head of Oracle’s Real World Performance Team, and Graham Wood, the legendary Oracle Database performance architect.

OOW Day 2: Oracle Database as a Service

Another day in the San Francisco Bay discovering the Oracle Cloud, but without clouds in the sky :=) Today I went to a session describing a customer case study on Oracle database cloud with Enterprise Manager Cloud 12c. Prior(…)

OOW Day 1: Oracle OEM Database Express 12c & Extreme Database Management

My second session today was about Oracle Extreme Database Management with the latest generation of database technology by Leng Leng Tan, Senior Vice President of Oracle Development. The new Oracle database 12c announced yesterday by Larry Ellison is fully integrated(…)

OOW Day 1: Oracle 12c – Data Guard new features

What a sunny day at the Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco, temperatures over 30 degrees Celsius … don’t be jealous ;=) What should I start speaking about? Oracle Entreprise Manager Cloud Control 12c? Oracle VM or Oracle Database 12c? Well,(…)

OOW Day 1: Upgrading to Oracle Cloud Control 12c

Today, we had the chance to attend interesting sessions under a perfect sunny Californian weather :-). The first one was about best practices for an upgrade to Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c. The session described the real case of a US(…)

Oracle OpenWorld 2012 – the world is not enough: Larry’s keynote on Oracle 12c, etc.

I am pretty sure you are wondering what Larry Ellison announced in his Oracle OpenWorld keynote, especially concerning Oracle 12c! In fact there were three major announcements, which I will cover in this posting. But first, let’s start with Fujitsu’s(…)

Documentum job dm_FTIndexAgentBoot does not start anymore

The Documentum job dm_FTIndexAgentBoot does not start anymore and we have the following job status: The job object indicated the job was in progress. In this blog posting, I will describe how to analyze and solve this issue. Analysis The(…)

“ORA-01665: control file is not a standby control file”: what can I do?

You have certainly also received this error once in you Oracle DBA career: “ORA-01665: control file is not a standby control file” while trying to create a standby database with RMAN through a full database backup. In fact, the feature(…)

Linux: Disks diagnostic using smartctl

Facing disk issues such as corruption or block defect is thankfully not happening frequently. However when it does, the diagnose may look sometimes like a real struggle. This is forgetting that disks integrate since years the S.M.A.R.T technology. Good point,(…)