Category Archives: Oracle RDBMS

32-bit to 64-bit database migration tips: OLAP upgrade

Notes on upgrading OLAP workspaces when migrating a database from 32-bit to 64-bit Linux.

Keeping OPatch up-to-date: an object lesson

Is opatch failing with the message “ApplySession failed: Patch ID is null.”? Might want to verify your opatch version…

Oracle 10gR2 RDBMS for Mac OS X (Intel) has arrived!

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!

Fixing file permission problems on Grid Control targets

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.

Two OCP exam mini-reviews: 1Z0-040 (10g DBA New Features) and 1Z0-238 (R12 Install, Patch and Maintain)

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)

Unravelling TNS-03505 with database lookups in Oracle Internet Directory

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 [...]