Tag: DBA Lounge

Suggestions about how to proceed if you are just getting started with blogging or searching for topics to blog about.

There are many blog posts out there about active database duplication. However, they were all tested in an ideal environment or condition. What happens when a tablespace is created during the middle of active duplication and how to resolve the…

“Seriously John, do you blog about anything else?” Yeah, well… Evidence is strongly against me so far. :) One of the more common questions I’ve received as a followup to my Build an E-Business Suite 12.1.3 Sandbox In VirtualBox in…

This blog explores some of the habits on user forums and advises how to enhance the forum experience. Readers are encouraged to contribute and share their own opinions.

As a DBA there are occasions where we are required to collect details from a database which can be used for further analysis. For example, getting the status of the database (i.e. File Size, Free Space, Status of the database,…

I’ve spent the better part of the day troubleshooting an issue with Oracle’s Auto Service Request (ASR) and wanted to share my results in case if saves someone else some effort.

Update, 7 March 2014: I don’t often suggest this, but: stop reading this post! Oracle has (finally, yay!) released VM templates for EBS 12.2.3 that can be imported to Virtualbox directly! If you want an EBS 12.2 sandbox in Virtualbox,…

In part 1 of this series, we talked about some of the challenges of setting up Oracle RAC on a public cloud provider, and went on to order some VMs from provider Gandi, and finally configuring a NFS server for shared storage. In this post, we move on to configuring the rac servers themselves, rac01 and rac02.

I’ve been working on moving a lot of the testing and R&D work I do away from local virtual machines and onto cloud environments, for a few reasons: I can avoid carrying around a laptop all the time, and rather…

This is yet another blog post with tips and tricks to help you (and me) download Oracle software without the help of a Web browser. If you Google “how to download Oracle with wget” you’ll find heaps of posts with…