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Re: It’s Happens to Everyone Eventually

jkuramot — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:43:00 -0000

Heh, I know, but it's factual and makes the point :)

Re: It’s Happens to Everyone Eventually

dannorris — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:40:42 -0000

I can't believe you said "gay porn" in a post. Oh, wait, I can. Nevermind.

Re: Portal Virtual Host Configuration

Guest — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:52:09 -0000

thanks! I have made it, it is the middle tier as you said! Thanks again for the tutorial

Re: Configuring Multiple Weblogic IIS Plug-Ins On Same IIS Server

dannorris — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:13:48 -0000

I don't think I understand the question. Depending on how your network and DNS records are configured, users on the internet and intranet should have equal and same access to the environment.

Re: Portal Virtual Host Configuration

dannorris — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:12:05 -0000

The ORACLE_HOME throughout the process remains the middle tier (Portal) O_H--you never switch to use the INFRA O_H during this process as outlined in the post.

Re: New job, lots of exciting stuff

dannorris — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:26:30 -0000

Thanks, Kyle. I had the VPN installed too, just too many other things that I
felt it better to conform with the corporate standard for now. I don't
anticipate it will be too long to go back to the Mac--I miss it a lot
already.

I knew before I joined that there is a lot of MacOS in use at Oracle. I just
reverted to Windows long enough to make sure I have all the necessary
software components. I hope to go back to Mac soon.

Thanks for the heads up!

Re: New job, lots of exciting stuff

dannorris — Wed, 27 May 2009 00:22:04 -0000

Thanks for boiling it down--you're right. Should be all down hill from here.

Re: Scuba diving pre-ODTUG Kaleidoscope, Monterey, 21-June-2009

dannorris — Wed, 27 May 2009 00:11:42 -0000

Indeed, he will dive in Iceland--I forgot about the order of things. I
wonder what other "firsts" he'll have in Iceland?!

Dan

Re: Oracle’s latest acquisition: Me

dannorris — Fri, 08 May 2009 08:55:14 -0000

Thanks Charles and Simon.

Charles: you're right about Rac attack and JS was reading over my
shoulder when I saw your comment, so he knows the same.

Simon: I would love to--hopefully there are some Exadata customers
that will encourage my presence at ukoug and other UK events!

Please excuse my typos, I sent this from my iPhone.

Re: Oracle’s latest acquisition: Me

dannorris — Tue, 05 May 2009 15:53:46 -0000

Me too! :)

Please excuse my typos, I sent this from my iPhone.

Re: I bought my own server for $1.02 (USD!)

dannorris — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:32:06 -0000

I never participated in that program, but I remember it. Sorry it got shut
down--seemed like a brilliant way to get customers (or prospective
customers) access to play with cool new stuff!

Re: I bought my own server for $1.02 (USD!)

Ignacio Ruiz — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:52:51 -0000

HP used to have a "Testdrive" program where they offered free access for evaluation purposes on HPUx-Linux boxes; some of them even with Oracle databases running. Unfortunately they shutdown the project, too bad

Re: Concatenating lines in ldapsearch results

dannorris — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:07:27 -0000

Glad it was helpful. Thanks for stopping by!

Please excuse my typos, I sent this from my iPhone.

Re: TNS Listener Configuration for Oracle RAC

dannorris — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 06:53:13 -0000

A few ideas come to mind. To answer your question, you could use a tns
entry that references all instances/servers to check overall
availability and also separately check each individual instance to
determine availability.

You might also consider using clusterware callouts to alert you.
Scripts placed in ora_crs_home/racg/usrco will be run whenever
clusterware detects a resource offline. That may be easier than
writing your own custom polling method.

Please excuse my typos, I sent this from my iPhone.

Re: More Fun with Virtualization

jkuramot — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:24:15 -0000

I know it's frightening. Because you're a caveman -- that's the way you think.

Re: More Fun with Virtualization

dannorris — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:06:40 -0000

I'm just a caveman lawyer. A caveman lawyer that likes sweet virtualization ideas like this one, though. Good on ya!

Re: Requiem for the Computer Lab

jkuramot — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:22:50 -0000

I always wanted to try doggie biscuits in the luggage.

Re: Requiem for the Computer Lab

dannorris — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:28:46 -0000

I distinctly remember downloading slackware linux onto something like 15 3.5" floppies using a 28.8kbps modem over the course of a day or two (partly due to dropped connections). Before starting the download, I had to make room for the downloads on my hard drive (it might have been 200Mb or so...maybe less).

I also remember using "talk" and "ntalk" to chat with friends online.

Ahh...the good ol' days. Sad that my kids don't know what cassette tapes or VHS tapes are, let alone a world before computers when having an Apple IIgs with 1Mb of RAM meant you were *rich*.

And good tip on PCU--I loved that movie. I think that was the first one I remember with Jeremy Piven and I was a fan from then on.

Re: Licensing continues to “uninterest” me

dannorris — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:14:51 -0000

I have no experiences related to SAP. Besides, after I wrote a whole blog post about how I don't like licensing issues, why would I want to write more about it?

Re: Start Database Services automatically after instance startup

dannorris — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:30:37 -0000

Hi Martin,

I'm glad you posted as I was thinking of you specifically when I wrote this. Since I didn't get your contact information, I'd hoped you would be watching :). Thanks for the question and getting me thinking...

Re: Start Database Services automatically after instance startup

Denix — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 05:44:16 -0000

Hi.
rac: oracle $ srvctl config db -d DB -a
...
DB_ROLE: PHYSICAL_STANDBY
START_OPTIONS: MOUNT
...
So You need to change startup option to MOUNT to not OPEN DB
there were some bugs that CRS ignored startup options and just opened(read only) DB
but they fixed in 10.2.0.4.

To start MRP user collout may be used,
but it will be much better if it was coded at CRS level

Denix

Re: Start Database Services automatically after instance startup

dannorris — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:02:29 -0000

I think it isn't recommended because there's no reliable way to do it. The -r physical_standby option wasn't really developed (apparently), so all CRS knows how to do is "startup open" and nothing else.

In 10g R2, I had good experiences with DG Broker--not sure about versions before then, but I can guess it may not have been so good back in V1 or V2 (DG was introduced in 9i, so that's basically V1 in my eyes).

Re: Exadata front and center

dannorris — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:49:58 -0000

Maybe I should have said that *I* don't know any better authority...at least not yet :).

Either way, with your consistent blogging on the topic, you're capturing a lot of the public's attention as the technical expert. I look forward to the session. Thanks for stopping by.

Re: Start Database Services automatically after instance startup

Charles Schultz — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:44:21 -0000

Thanks, I appreciate that. So this really begs the question; "why do they recommend against having CRS put the standby in standby mode?" I am asking from the angle that I have more to learn, and I would like to understand the ramifications of this action.

The DG Broker is another beast. I have heard so many good things about it that I am recommending to our group that we start adopting it. We tried it out in 9i and were burned badly (too complicated, too esoteric, not very friendly).

PS - In light of this post, I am passing out Jeremy's whitepaper like candy to the SunGard crowd, because currently they do not support Services which makes my job as a DBA a little more difficult than it needs to be. Funny how the support staff I am talking has no clue what Oracle Services even are. =) Ah well....

Re: Start Database Services automatically after instance startup

dannorris — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:38:20 -0000

I got some feedback from one of my contacts (suffice it to say this is authoritative information). Basically, they said that they don't recommend using CRS to put the DB in standby mode. There is a "-r physical_standby" mode that was created, but not used, so avoid it. Instead, DG Broker is the recommended way to manage RAC standbys and it is documented too: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/se...

Hope that helps.