Step-by-step guide on how to remove Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) from a Windows X64 system. I had to remove Oracle 11g and reinstall Oracle 10gRel2 for a client recently. 1a, b and d are required if you are using RAW devices for your OCR and Votedisk If you are using OCFS for these files, skip to step 1c …
Read MoreColdFusion Nested Cfloop Bug and Workaround, "outerqueryset.column1" Displays First Record Only
Coldfusion Nested Cfloop or Cfloop within a Cfloop Coldfusion Cfloop within a cfloop or gives interesting results. I couldn’t believe it was a bug. But looks to be true once tested. Thanks to Blog of Jehiah Czebotar who bailed me out of this issue after looking at it for some time with eyes crossed and debugging. Here …
Read MoreThis article explores the lack of official support for Oracle RAC running on Red Hat under VMware ESX and gathers user experiences with this potentially unsupported configuration I am interested to find out from [vmware]https://www.vmware.com/) and oracle why Oracle RAC running on Red Hat under vmware esx is not …
Read MoreTurn Off Disable Oracle Recycle Bin In a comment today about the Empty Oracle Recycle Bin, A person wanted to know how one turns off or disables the Oracle Recycle Bin?In ORACLE 10G Release 1 there is a knob to turn to disable the behavior of recycling bin. The “_recyclebin” which defaults to TRUE. We can disable it by …
Read MoreEmpty Oracle Recycle Bin A new feature in Oracle 10g Release 2 was the Reycycle Bin. The recycle bin in the Oracle database is where all dropped objects reside. Underneath the covers the object are taking up the same space when they were created. "DROP TABLE mytable", it doesn't really drop it. It instead renames it to …
Read MoreRelink Oracle Database Software on Unix Linux RAC Cluster Had problems with running Oracle RAC on a cluster on Redhat Release 3 AS. So we started the conversion to Redhat Release 4 AS. We run a 2 node RAC Cluster on iSCSI Lefthand Networks SAN. The Oracle software is installed on a lun on each machine and the database …
Read MoreOracle Enterprise Edition Release 2 Downloaded Oracle Enterprise Edition Release 2 from the oracle technology network. It was 3 cds. Unzipped them into the oracle directory d1 d2 d3 for the 3 cds and tried install. Got Error. Nothing but trouble. Found a post on metalink that indicated a bug in the software and one …
Read MoreRed Hat Trouble SYSrq SysRq How to Enable Magic SysRq in Red Hat Linux Magic SysRq key sequence is used to collect additional system information to aid in the troubleshooting of system hangs or panics. NOTE: Disable ASR so that ASR will not restart the server before the SysRq information can be captured.
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Read MoreRedHat Trouble netdump Netdump Server and Client setup netdump server: collard.alf.cpqcorp.net (16.113.5.139) netdump client: bubba.alf.cpqcorp.net (16.113.5.104) Setup Netdump Server: 1. Check to see if the netdump-server is installed: #rpm –qa | grep –i netdump-server If it is not already installed, install the …
Read MoreVMware Server verse Microsoft Virtual Server Seems much of 2006 was spent testing virtual server software. I find it interesting that for years on the mainframe we have been using virtual machines. I just read the article by M. T Jones on Virtual Linux and it talks about the history and kinds of virtualization. Spent …
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