Does Oracle’s Block Change Tracking File Shrink? (1)
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Just a quick post to get myself back into blogging mode. Recently in IRC (#oracle on freenode, to be precise), a fresh face asked if the Block Change Tracking file ever shrinks. She had been worrying about the file in her instance continuing to grow. A number of us speculated (non-BAAG!) that perhaps taking an RMAN backup would somehow purge the file of what it was keeping track of, and then the magical Oracle fairies ...
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What’s Your GPS Do? (1)
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Yesterday, I quipped: Processing “I’m at the Green Dragon” is far easier than processing “I’m at 928 SE 9th Avenue, Portland, OR”. Unless you’re a GPS device. In which case, you and your friends should have no trouble finding each other. And lo, today via Mashable, I read about Garmin and uLocate teaming up to link your GPS device with your social network. I guess the WHERE Buddy Beacon service by uLocate allows you to ...
Why should you set the ADMIN_RESTRICTIONS_LISTENER to ON (1)
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Recently someone probably went through the slides of my session on "Real Life DBA Best Practices" and had a question on OTN forum why I was recommending setting the parameter to ON, as a best practice. I responded on the forum; but I feel it's important enough to put it here as well.As a best practice, I recommend setting this parameter to ON (the default is OFF). But as I profess, a best practice is ...
OTN at Oracle OpenWorld (1)
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Your Ticket to More Oracle Technology Network (OTN) is the world's largest community of Oracle developers, DBAs/admins, architects, and QA testers. So, what better place to gather than at the world's biggest Oracle event? Oracle OpenWorld 2008 will host a plethora of learning, networking, and just plain fun activities for OTN members: • The OTN lounge offers both business and pleasure. Set aside some time for the Oracle ACE Office Hours. Or swing by whenever ...
Podcasts (1)
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Over the last few months we have been adding a number of podcasts. These can easily be missed so now they are all stored in one location here . You can stream or download all the podcasts that have been published or if you have embraced anything with an "i" in it such as the ubiquitous ipod then all the podcasts are available at the itunes store also here.
Consistent Gets not Necessarily the Best Way to Look at Query Performance (1)
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This post is for those who think Consistent Gets is the only thing that matters. It’s not. That’s why Statspack and AWR provide not only the top queries sorted by Consistent Gets but also Sorted by IO, CPU, Cluster Waits, and so on. I won’t argue. Check for yourself. I’ve run the queries that follow on top of 10.2.0.3 on Linux X86_64. Sample Table Create and Fill up a table to run your queries. You’ll ...
Oracle Books for Free (1)
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Grants on Views (1)
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I’ve been bitten by a well known, but not well documented issue with granting “select” privileges on views. User A has three tables and two functions, user B has “select” privilege on the tables and “execute” privilege on the functions. User B created a view using these tables and functions, and he now wants to allow user C to select from this table. What privileges user C should have in order to select from the ...
Oracle 12g & raw devices (1)
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I stumbled upon an interesting Oracle Metalink note (578455.1) today that was published this week. It announced the desupport of raw devices with the next release of Oracle i.e. Oracle 12g. This is of particular interest for Oracle RAC customers as a lot of people store their voting disks & OCR on raw devices. In future [...]
IOUG RAC Attack!, Event Summary (1)
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As one of the organizers of the IOUG RAC Attack! event, I may have a slightly partial viewpoint, but I think the event overall went very well. The hands-on lab was especially popular and I think participants in the hands-on lab all got to learn at least a few new things. If you’ve been to Oracle Education training classes like I have, you know how it seems like you sometimes have to spend 5 days ...
Must have mobile ring tones (5)
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If you listed to my show yesterday, you heard me play the ring tones and alerts I use on my Treo 800w and Motrola Q 9. I am always looking for good ring / text alert tones, so I was interested when Maximum PC posted their 20 Must-Have Geek Ringtones and Text Message Alerts (And 10 to Avoid!) article...complete with links to media files for download. My personal criteria for a mobile phone tone is ...
Gerald release 0.2.3 (1)
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I have packaged and released version 0.2.3 of gerald. This is mainly a tidy up and bug fix release, with numerous additional unit tests. You can find all of the details in the CHANGELOG.txt file that comes with the source distribution (or view it here) but in a nutshell the changes from the last release are; Numerous renames to more fully comply with PEP-8 Added numerous tests, full details in the CHANGELOG.txt file Added an ...
dude - it’s a blog (1)
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Well, I'm back from two weeks holiday away from the net and a pile of blog comments and emails to catch up on. I'll leave those for tomorrow. A quickie for now, though. I see that Kurt van Meerbeeck (yeah, OK, Kurt the DUDE guy) has finally started a blog. Truth be told, I don't think a blog would be very high on his agenda - too many interesting recovery cases to work on - ...
Around the World (1)
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The Word from the Web - 08/01/08 We're not the only ones buzzing about the big show. Here are some links to other interesting items around the topic of Oracle OpenWorld. We invite you to add more as comments. What's Bigger Than a Firehose? A Raging River. Oracle OpenWorld is big. Real big. It's got to be to fit all the great sessions, demos, partners, etc. But how do you navigate it all? See what ...
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Lots of webapps—Flickr, Tumblr, and Remember the Milk, among them—let you upload items through custom email addresses. Those addresses, though, are usually very long, or extremely random, and hard to remember when you're trying to dash off something. The Digital Inspiration blog recommends putting the ever-clever disposable Gmail address trick to work, which also works with other email providers. Set up a filter to send mail addressed to YourName+Flickr@g... to your custom Flickr address, and ...Shared by Alec Peden (6) Ariel Acentares (1) binduwavell (1) bwary (0) Cade (4) cesaracardoso (69) ckaroli (36) Compuwizard123 (16) Dan (4) Darrin (0) docbaily (28) Elton (0) Fuad (0) GC (0) Google (1) Grandje5ter (18) Jeffrey (4) Joe (3) Kevin Hamer (9) Linda (1) merkurov (13) mgalpert (4) Michael (1) Michelle (2) MJ (0) Murz (2) Muzo (8) Polina (5) Rick (1) robenalt (1) Ryan (0) ryan (24) Scott (3) shawnmor (20) simplynutty (0) stormin (0) tarraguna (1) Tim (11) Todd Lohenry (8)
