I ran across this article today on Oracle’s new strategy for Standard Edition and Standard Edition One licensing. As a consultant, there are times when I have to tackle licensing questions, though I usually try to stay away from it and let Oracle’s salespeople do that job. However, I found
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Patching from 10.2.0.1 to 10.2.0.3
I’m not a big fan of ignoring errors with OUI (we all have our horror stories), and so when I ran across this one I was loathe to ignore or cancel: Error in invoking target ‘all_no_orcl ipc_g’ of makefile Now, an experienced Oracle installer/patcher/troubleshooter/slave knows full well that most of
It’s been a while!
Hello everyone…I know I haven’t posted in quite a while, and I’m not about to start now. Things have been extremely busy lately, starting with my 10g RAC course aboard the Carnival Glory on a 7-day Caribbean cruise (more on that later). So I will be posting again soon, and
The Great Divide – DBAs and Developers
I was speaking at a small User Group meeting yesterday. A crowd of about 20 was sitting at tables in a “U” configuration. About 70% of the way through the presentation, I asked the fateful question. Me: “How many of you are DBAs?” To my surprise, the right side of
Log Buffer #26: a Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs
Welcome to the 26th edition of Log Buffer, a Carnival of the Vanities Blog for DBAs. In addition, welcome to a new year! 2007 is shaping up to be a very interesting year for the database world, and some of the recent posts in the blogosphere should help you see
Backtrack: My trip to Jamaica
This is way overdue, but I figured I’d post here about my trip to Jamaica. I got to go here via some work with Burleson Consulting; I even took my family. Here’s a great picture of my kids chilling next to a beautiful waterfall at the hotel: And I can’t
GQLPlus – Command Line Goodness
I just found a link to a command line wrapper for SQL*Plus called GQLPlus. Supposedly this wrapper allows historical editing, table/column name completion, and more. Even better, it’s just a precompiled drop-in with SQL Plus. Download and run; nothing else is required. From the website: “gqlplus is a drop-in replacement
Make History with Streams
Oracle Streams is an outstanding way to get data from one server to another. It is NOTHING like the advanced replication of old, which is why I call it “outstanding” and not “horribly inefficient and error-prone, not to mention annoying.” Recently I was asked how to implement a custom INSERT
Rise and Do Honor! Oracle Awards
If you get the chance, check out the Oracle Award-Winners from the November/December edition of Oracle Magazine. You can find them at this link: http://www.oracle.com/technology/oramag/oracle/06-nov/o66eca.html I got the chance to meet a few of these fine people while at OpenWorld, and have spoken to others before and afterward as a