Under the Hoods of Cache Fusion, GES, GRD and GCS

•If I have a 100MB database, I can have a 100 MB buffer cache and I never have to go to the disk, right? •How does Cache Fusion know where to get the block from? •I’m confused about Global Cache Service (GCS), Global Resource Directory (GRD) and Global Enqueue Service (GES) •We will understand how . . . → Read More: Under the Hoods of Cache Fusion, GES, GRD and GCS

Demystifying Oracle RAC Internals

•Architecture •Oracle Clusterware – Group Membership •Oracle Cluster Registry •The Interconnect •The Public Network and the Virtual IP (VIP) •Oracle RAC Startup/Shutdown •Advanced Features of Oracle RAC

Handling Block Corruptions in Oracle7 / 8 / 8i / 9i / 10g / 11g

Introduction This article discusses how to handle one or more block corruptions on an Oracle datafile and describes the main actions to take to deal with them. Please read the complete article before taking any action. This note does not cover memory corruption issues (typically ORA-600 [17xxx] type errors). Note: If the problem is . . . → Read More: Handling Block Corruptions in Oracle7 / 8 / 8i / 9i / 10g / 11g

OS Watcher User's Guide

The On-Board Monitor User's Guide

Oracle AIX Performance and Tuning

OPATCH FAQ

General Questions:

Q1. What are some of the new options in OPatch?

‘-property_file’ is a new option available for ‘opatch apply’ and ‘opatch rollback’ operations. This option can be used to provide the user defined property file, giving details like the path to system commands like ‘fuser’, ‘cp’, etc…

Q2. What does: ” Exception in . . . → Read More: OPATCH FAQ

Rac 10gR2 On HPUX

This guide details the tasks required for installing Oracle Real Application Clusters (10.2.0.2) on the HP-UX (11.17) platform. The technolgies configured as part of this deployment are as follows:

Oracle Real Application Clusters Oracle ASM over SLVM (Shared Logical Volumes) HP Serviceguard extensions for RAC

The high level overview of the tasks (from an Oracle . . . → Read More: Rac 10gR2 On HPUX