It’s quite interesting that very many DBAs still use other methods than RMAN to backup their databases. I don’t mean the highend solutions like splitmirror but export / import or offline backups with OS-methods. But it’s so easy to backup databases using RMAN:
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Due to moving into the new office I had to change several configurations in my infrastructure. Sure, the Linux and Windows systems were changed very quickly, the virtual machines did not cause any problems either. The switch of my RAC cluster then was a little bit more difficult, because it is not all done by changing the entries in the /etc/hosts, there is actually much more required.
The system was build up to test some tools, i.e. the new Oracle Cloud Control 12c, Toad for Oracle and Spotlight (Quest Software) with their RAC components and the HLMM (Herrmann & Lenz Monitoring Module). And this was not about “certificated” configurations or even to set up a productive environment, but about creating a RAC database with minimum effort.
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With Release 11g Oracle introduced the concept of the Automatic Diagnostic Repository (ADR) which (in theory) is an independant directory structure for all kind of logs and traces for the database, listener and other Oracle products. The content is mostly stored twice (as text or traditional trace file and in xml format). So the size of each individual directory can easily become several GB. Nothing to worry for todays disk spaces but annoying if you really need to find some relevant information. The good news is that there is a purge mechanism associated with it so that old logs and
Do you really need one year old Logs and Traces for your Oracle Database? Blogbeitrag lesen »
Do you know what Indoorkiting is? It’s flying kites in gyms, halles, hotels, churches and everywhere were you have no wind but some space. Those kites are similar to the once you might have seen at the coast (with one line, two lines or four lines) but very lightwight. My favorite kite is called “Poldi” and was designed by my dear friend Ralf Elias. It’s a two line kite with a size of approx. 180 cm and a weight of about 80 gramm. This picture shows my daughter and me in the main halle in Leipzig doing a pair demo
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