Oracle Database 11.2 simple disaster recovery scenario
This is simple scenario in which I will simulate full database loss and then I’ll do an incomplete database recovery. The server is installed with Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.6, Oracle Grid...
View ArticleMark the dates for the BGOUG conference
This is just to mark the autumn conference of the Bulgarian Oracle User Group (BGOUG). The conference will be held in Spa hotel Hissar in Hisarya, between 18th and 20th of November, 2011. As always it...
View ArticleUnable to load Audit Vault console after login
Well, this is quick notice in case someone else got into this error. I’m having Audit Vault server, patched up to 10.2.3.2.5 and its repository database to 10.2.0.7. The problem is that I’m able to...
View ArticleExhaust of Windows 2008 heap memory with Oracle Database 11.2.0.2
Recently I had an interesting setup for one of our customers. Because they got Oracle Standard Edition and Windows 2008 Server R2 Standard Edition licenses I was asked to create HA database...
View ArticleSIOUG Conference
More than a week after the SIOUG (Slovenian Oracle User Group) I wanted to say thanks to Joze Senegacnik for inviting me and for being very hospitable. I’ve been many times in Slovenia, but It’s my...
View ArticleOracle announces Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c
Yesterday at Open World, Oracle announced the release of Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c release 1 (version 12.1.0.1), where c stand for cloud. EM12c is a management solution providing centralised...
View ArticleInstalling Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12 on OEL 6.1
Few days ago Oracle announced the release of Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c. I tried to summarize most of the information in my post so I’ll not discuss any details here, but I’ll go only...
View ArticleWhy I like Oracle Application Express
Few years ago when I was Linux system administrator I already knew PHP and I used it to create monitoring scripts for the servers and services that I was responsible for. They were really simple...
View ArticleSetup Subversion on Oracle Enterprise Linux
As I mentioned in my previous post I’m using Subversion to keep my SQL design, APEX application and all application serving files. Concurrent Versions System are not something new and they are must for...
View ArticleCannot apply BP10 to Oracle Database 11.2.0.2 on Windows Server 2008 R2
This happened to be when I tryed to apply Bundle Patch 10 of Oracle Database 11.2.0.2 on Windows 2008, but I guess it could happen to any 11.x database version. I decided to apply this patch after I...
View ArticleHow to integrate Oracle SQL Data Modeler with Subversion
It’s not necessary to work on a big project to use SVN. Keeping your design into SVN repository is very useful and good practice. By doing so you could easily see what changes you’ve made to the design...
View ArticleConfiguring PHP with Oracle support on Oracle Enterprise Linux
In case you need to run PHP with Oracle support this is how to do it with Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.x. I assume that Apache and PHP are already installed. First you need to download the source of...
View ArticleBGOUG starts tomorrow
It’s less than a day, tomorrow starts the Bulgarian Oracle User Group (BGOUG) conference. I’ve been looking for so long for this conference as I missed OOW this year. The conference will took place at...
View ArticleTroubleshooting ASM 11.2 disk discovery
I was doing some installation at customer site when they asked if there anything specific to run GI 11.2 on HP-UX as this was their first interaction with 11g. Of course I replied that there is nothing...
View ArticleDatabase 11.2 bug causes huge number of alert log entries
Few days ago I received a call from customer about problem with their EM console and messages about file system full. They run DB 11.2.0.2 on OEL 5.7 and had only binaries installation at that file...
View ArticleUnable to create ASM disk under OEL 6.x
It was busy month and I’m behind with my blog posts. First of all Happy New Year to all of you and wish you all the best through the new year! This is a short note for installing Oracle Database with...
View ArticleASM diskgroup unable to mount because of duplicate disk
This is something I would like to share for a long time, but for one or another reason I didn’t. The error is nothing special, but then I run into very interesting case. This happen when I had to...
View ArticleAutomatically backup Oracle APEX applications to Subversion
In continue of my previous posts about APEX and Subversion I made a short script using APEXExport utility to automate and backup APEX to Subversion repository. I’m using Oracle Express Edition 11.2,...
View ArticleNot able to update Web service process in APEX 4.1
Last month I created a simple APEX application with enabled mobile support and latest version of jQuery, which integrates with HP Service Manager through web services. The purpose was to give option...
View ArticleOracle 11g XE listener does not start when there is another database running
If for any reason you have a two databases running on the same server and one of them is Oracle 11g Express Edition then you will get surprised that listener of XE is not started automatically during...
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