Trying to start a database listener that doesn’t exist generates log files. In older versions of the database, it’s just one file, but what about in 11g, with its fancy Automatic DIagnostic Repository?
Sometimes, even on the 3rd or 4th run-through of a database upgrade test, it’s possible to miss something. Practice makes perfect.
Random notes about the March 2010 VanOUG meeting presentations
Notes on upgrading OLAP workspaces when migrating a database from 32-bit to 64-bit Linux.
Is opatch failing with the message “ApplySession failed: Patch ID is null.”? Might want to verify your opatch version…
Oracle has, at long last, released a version of the RDBMS for Mac OS X Intel. Not all features are supported, but on the other hand, it will run natively even on a non-Server version of Leopard. Woohoo!
When installing Grid Control on a Linux or Unix platform, a recommended practice is to install the monitoring agent software as a user that doesn’t own the ORACLE_HOMEs to be monitored. This poses a challenge when configuring monitoring for some targets, particularly those based on Oracle Application Server 10g. This post lists some changes you can make to work around a variety of target discovery and metric collection errors.
Here are my impressions of two Oracle certification exams I’ve had the opportunity to take in the past few months: 1Z0-040 (Oracle Database 10g: New Features for Administrators), and the beta version of 1Z0-238 (Oracle EBS R12: Install, Patch and Maintain Applications)
I was playing around with using Oracle Internet Directory to resolve database service names recently, and it turned into an adventure. Not exactly a memoir-inspiring adventure, but at least one worth blogging about. Maybe my little voyage of discovery here will help someone else who gets a TNS-03505 when using LDAP to look [...]
