12C Grid – GENO process causes high CPU usage
This is an interesting bug which has affected a number of our databases – perhaps because we are not patched to the latest levels in every case. The MoS note is this one – Patch 20373598: GEN0...
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Oracle Cloud Total Cost of ownership Calculator – rather confusing
I was interested enough to try out the Oracle TCO calculator that I was sent an email about. I can honestly say it has rather confused me in what it is comparing and how the results are calculated. I...
View ArticleModifying a datafile within Amazon AWS
Amazon restrict access to the SYS user within AWS instances for safety and security reasons – the safety aspect being that users cannot be trusted to not cause self-harm! Wishing to increase or add a...
View ArticleA setup to test backup and restore options
A couple of years my team put together some procedures and the underlying databases to allow testing of as many RMAN recovery options as we could think of. We had two databases which gave us a...
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Oracle car parking
I have been involved over the years with both Microsoft SQL Server licensing and Oracle licensing management and the following image made me chuckle. Produced by House of Brick who have a lot of...
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A change of career after 29 years working with Oracle databases
I have worked with Oracle since the early 90’s. I did work on V6 but I do not remember that much about it. V7.3 was were I had a big learning curve. This book was the mainstay of my life at that time....
View ArticleOracle executives being sued by the St Louis Fireman’s retirement fund
In May 2017 the St Louis Firemans pension fund started a case against Larry Ellison and other executives over the purchase of Netscape. They allege that Oracle paid an over-inflated price for Netsuite...
View ArticleResponse to Make database simpler
I read an interesting and thought provoking blog this morning Make Oracle database simple again Much of is is common sense and is really best practise – naming conventions, using scripts, standard...
View ArticleWindows XP source code leak could lead to problems
The first line of the link below is a little dramatic “Source code for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 has leaked publicly for the first time. The gate for cybercriminals is wide open”, however once...
View ArticleI have retired
I have now retired from work as of June 2021 and will no longer be updating this site. I had been doing a different role in the 18 months prior to retirement and therefore hardly blogged at all....
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