Author: Yury Velikanov

Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2.2 is out! Big times ahead of us folks! My team is planning to blog about it a lot. Stay tuned. This is my prediction: Online patching a game-changer in Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2 Oracle Press Release Steven…

I am happy to announce that, thanks to all the volunteers’ hard work and Oracle Technology Network’s support, RAC Attack is going to be part of the Oracle OpenWorld 2013 conference in less than a month’s time.

A few of my friends asked me to assist them with getting up to speed with SLOB2 testings. I have decided to publish this quick blog post and give people to a few hints. Additional Scripts Here are some of…

My friend Øyvind Isene suggested that I store a DUPLICATE RMAN script that works in a safe place in this tweet. @yvelik Me too, then I store the script in a safe place :-) Duplicate jobs reminds me how important it…

Okay, back to school folks, back to school :). As with any new product, our long learning journey starts with an installation on a sandbox environment. To get you up to speed with Oracle 12c RAC and let you focus…

At Pythian’s internal forum, someone just asked the following question: “The team here is evaluating DB load testing tools (Hammerdb, Orion, SLOB, and Swingbench) and was wondering about our experience in using different tools and what is our opinion?” I…

To be precise, I wonder if OUTERmost tracks of a spinning HDD are faster than INNERmost tracks. Should we put physical IO performance secretive data to OUTERmost parts of  the disk and less critical data to INNERmost parts as several vendors suggests? Well I couldn’t find…

Some of you know that I have published an article explaining how to install Oracle VM Manager (OVMM) on a Dom0 host after Oracle’s release of Oracle VM 3. I have described why you may want to do it in…

This blog posts explains why Oracle Database Appliances re-imaging process timing may vary from 20 to 120 minutes. There are a check in the ISO:/Extras/setupodaovm.sh script that have an issue. Until the bug is fixed a) you may face different ODA nodes’ re-imaging times b) to be on the safe side check if md devices’ re-synchronization process is finished by running “cat /proc/mdstat” command before running any business critical processes on your ODA.

It is less than a week before the Collaborate 2013 conference. Most of us are busy putting together our individual agendas for what is shaping up to be a very exciting week. There are so many interesting sessions to choose from! Conference organizers kindly introduced a Show Planner to make planning a bit easier, but in this blog post, I will share with you how I created my agenda for Collaborate.