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Pythian Group Blog - Sep 26, 2008
I decided to build my first sand box ever, I always wanted one, but there was no time or reason until now. Fortunately, hardware is ridiculously cheap these days compared to the past, so you can actually run full-blown …
Also tagged: oracle, linux, libraries, e business suite, r12, dependencies, oracle enterprise linux, rpm2cpio, rapidwiz
Pythian Group Blog - Sep 16, 2008
About once a week, our team gets a request from the server admins to provide some information on why a database server is running slowly. This typically begins a painstaking process of finding the main processes on the …
Also tagged: oracle, gv session, gv process, database sessions
Pythian Group Blog - Aug 21, 2008
Anybody who has tried this multi-node to single-node cloning in 11i knows that it’s difficult and very error-prone. If we outline the Apps Tier cloning process, it looks like this (supposing we have a two-node instance …
Also tagged: oracle, 11i e business suite, unified appltop, rapidclone, r12 e business suite
Pythian Group Blog - Aug 1, 2008
I’m pleased to announce that there will be the formal launch of Pythian Europe at the premises of the Canadian Embassy in Prague on Wednesday the 6th of August from 17:00 to 18:30. This historicevent will be announced …
Also tagged: europe, sql server, oracle, launch, sysadmin, mysql, prague, group blog posts, non tech articles, pythian, pythian europe
Pythian Group Blog - Jul 28, 2008
One of the main goals in architecting a Disaster Recovery (DR) solution is to make a DR failover transparent to the end users. Too often, users must reboot their desktops, clear their browser cache and the jinitiator …
Also tagged: dns, ttl, load balancer, 11i e business suite
Pythian Group Blog - Jul 15, 2008
Oracle R12 is certified to install on 64-bit Linux for X86_64 platforms. Yeah, I know that’s old news. The interesting part here is it’s not “pure” 64-bit software like the Oracle Database on Linux 64-bit: R12 is …
Also tagged: 64 bit, linux, r12, oracle 11i e business suite, ascp, msonwl64 exe, memory based planner
Pythian Group Blog - Jul 4, 2008
We recently had an issue with a client while cloning a huge database. The result was that we had to restore the whole database as the post-clone corrupted the existing database. Pain! It took another fourteen hours to …
Also tagged: cloning, clone, dba jobs, post clone
Pythian Group Blog - Jun 11, 2008
From my previous post on TXK rollup patch, you already know the significance of adctxinf.tmp file in $AD_TOP/admin/template directory. It has wealth of information about different XML tags in the Context XML file of an …
Also tagged: xml, xsl, oracle 11i e business suite, adctxinf tmp
Pythian Group Blog - May 22, 2008
Recently, I had a few email exchanges — on the Oracle-l list and offline — about HW enqueue contention. A few interesting observations emerged from test cases I created during that discussion. HW Enqueue When a …
Pythian Group Blog - May 13, 2008
Thanks to Paul for announcing the founding of Pythian Europe. Paul finished his blog by inviting me to tell you the story about “how we met Pythian”. Here it is. As I get older, I am starting to see some symbolic …
Also tagged: oracle, czech republic, prague, vms, non tech articles, pythian, vax, pythian europe