Getting started with git behind a company proxy
Since a few months I’ve been involved in working with git to save our Infrastructure as Code in GitHub. But I don’t want to have to type in my …
Author: Patrick Roozen
ODA X6-2M – How to create your own ACFS file system
In this post I will explain how to create your own ACFS file system (on the command line) that you can use to (temporarily) store data. So you have …
Oracle Compute Cloud – Uploading My Image – Part Two – Linux 7
July 24, 2017
Cloud, Cyber Security, DevOps, IT, Platform Technology, Virtualization and Oracle VM
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In this sequel of part one I will show how you can upload your own (Oracle) Linux 7 image in the IAAS Cloud of Oracle. This post will use …
AWS – Build your own Oracle Linux 7 AMI in the Cloud
July 14, 2017
Cloud, Cyber Security, Database, IT, Oracle, Platform Technology, Virtualization and Oracle VM
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I always like to know what is installed in the servers that I need to use for databases or Weblogic installs. Whether it is in the Oracle Cloud or …
Oracle Compute Cloud – Uploading My Image – Part one
Recently (October 2016) I had the opportunity to attend an Oracle Compute Cloud workshop that was very interesting. As a side effect I got access to the Cloud for …
RAC and preventing Active Data Guard: My experiences
When you happen to have a customer that want’s to use Data Guard on Oracle RAC without a license for Active Data Guard then you might want to read this …
SQL*Plus / SQL*Net Dead Connection Detection
November 28, 2014
Architecture, Database, Databases, DBA Oracle, Oracle, Oracle WebLogic Server, Platform Technology, Virtualization and Oracle VM
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Recently I came across the situation where I knew for a fact that my sessions to the database were dead because I pulled the power plug out of my application …
Cloud Control: How a Camel can make you cross a Data Guard Mountain
July 9, 2014
Cloud, Database, Databases, DBA Oracle, Enterprise Manager, Oracle, Platform Technology
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In my recent post I already mentioned it a little bit: Integrating your manual Data Guard Broker configuration in OEM Cloud Control can become a sort of climbing a Mountain. …
How to add your Standby Cluster Database to Cloud Control
July 6, 2014
Cloud, Database, Databases, DBA Oracle, Enterprise Manager, Platform Technology
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The last few months I’ve been working with Oracle Data Guard, reading lots of manuals and (parts of) books, to make smart decisions and get a solid foundation. I consider …
You consolidated your applications in one database, but now one application needs recovery…
Imagine this: You have consolidated you applications into one database (version 10gR2). You take a full backup every Tuesday and Thursday evening and an archivelog backup every few hours. …
Understanding Storage, Masterclass by James Morle
Today was the first day of the two day Masterclass “Understanding Storage” by James Morle at AMIS. After having reserved my participation in this Masterclass on March 12th, the …
My First Steps with RAC One Node 11gR2 (11.2.0.2)
I’ve been using RAC (10gR2) for years now and I was wondering how RAC One Node differs from RAC. That’s why I used a few ‘old’ RAC servers that …
10gR2 RAC service failover and ORA-12545
A few years ago I was lucky to be able to start working for a client that has Oracle RAC clusters. There we encountered lot’s of interesting issues, and …
Remote printing to Windows printservers from Solaris
Recently I found myself in the situation that we had gotten an incident about some application that couldn’t print anymore to the printers it was printing before. This was …
Hotsos day Final day of the Symposium
Cary mentioned at the start of his presentation “Measure Once, Cut Twice” that he succeeded in one of the few goals for today: Getting up in time.
Hotsos 2008, day 2
Just a short impression of a few sessions today, and the day isn’t even over… I’m really loving it being here and seeing all these people thinking and acting …
Hotsos 2008, Day one
Hotsos 2008, first day of the symposium Today I had to make some difficult choices: There are too many presentation to see or just not enough me to go …
Hotsos 2008, here we come…
It was supposed to happen in 2007, but due to some private issues I never made it to Hotsos that year. I have been wanting to attend since several …