On behalf of Klug GmbH integrierte Systeme and the IOUG, I will speak in the US for a second time this year: “Resolving child cursor issues resulting in mutex waits” at Oracle OpenWorld 2012 in San Francisco, Moscone Center. It’s Session UGF10573 (User Group Forums) Date and Time: Sunday, 9/30/12, 10:30 – 11:30 Venue / […]
Oracle: RHEL6 and Oracle Enterprise Linux 6 certified for Database 11.2.0.3
Hi Linux-DBAs, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Oracle Enterprise Linux 6 are now certified for Oracle Database 11.2.0.3. Please see this link: https://support.oracle.com/CSP/main/article?cmd=show&id=1441282.1&type=NOT Best regards Martin […]
IOUG 2012 presentation: RESOLVING CHILD CURSOR ISSUES RESULTING IN MUTEX WAITS
Hi folks, thanks for attending my lesson! Here comes the paper and presentation. If there are further questions, feel free to contact me – email and stuff is in the documents. 2012_893_Whitepaper (pdf) 2012_893_Presentation (pdf) Regards Martin […]
Upgrading Oracle Clusterware: [INS-40406] The installer detects no existing Oracle Grid Infrastructure software on the system
Upgrading Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11.2 (it’s just another marketing name for the Oracle Clusterware, formerly known as Cluster Ready Services CRS) usually is easy: The runInstaller offers an upgrade mode, and discovers nodes and versions without further effort. But what, if not? The message will be “[INS-40406] The installer detects no existing Oracle Grid Infrastructure […]
Speaking at IOUG COLLABORATE 12: “Resolving child cursor issues resulting in mutex waits”
On April 22-26, 2012 the Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) is holding the COLLABORATE 12 forum in Mandalay Bay Convention Center, Las Vegas (US-NV). The COLLABORATE is a widely known event in the Oracle Community, and attracts lots of Oracle guys and girls from all over the world. I feel honored to contribute a presentation […]
DOAG Conference 2011 – Impressions and Look-at’s
Once again this year, the German Oracle Users Group has its annual conference and exhibition in Nuremberg. (DOAG Konferenz und Ausstellung 2011, Nürnberg). Being there is nearly a must for Oracle guys in German speaking countries. As usual, here comes my unordered, incomplete and ad-hoc list of things I wrote down to have a closer […]
Oracle Clusterware 11.2: ASM crashes at startup
These days, a customer’s Oracle Clusterware (2 nodes) crashed one ASM instance at every startup. More Facts: It was not possible to start it manually, too. The CSSD was running. For obvious reasons, CRSD did not start. The other ASM instance in the cluster recognized CLUSTER RECONFIGURATION for a short period of time. The ASM […]
Linux Network bonding – setup guide
After looking up Linux bonding stuff for the thrid time, I planned to write an article aubout it. But there are lots of good blog posts on this, so just click here at unixfoo: Linux Network bonding – setup guide (strange link, I know, but it works) Hope it helps for you next high avaliability […]
Oracle: Manage the lifetime of trace files et al. with ADRCI (purge interval)
Oracle Database 11g and above offers a great feature by managing its trace files by itself. In combination with the new “incident” system, a tool was necessary to handle those without enterprise manager: ADRCI. It has several other cool functions, such as a tail-like log file display, but today I just want to show a […]
Oracle Grid Infrastructure: How to recover from a messed up ASM/CSSD diskstring
Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11.2 with voting files and OCR in an ASM diskgroup can be a little tricky if you mess up the voting file voodoo. You know the basic situation? With Oracle Grid Infrastructure aka Oracle Clusterware, we are storing your cluster quorum and config repository (OCR) into a disk group. But CSSD needs […]