Prior to 10G, Raw Device or 3rd party cluster filesystem were the only options for Oracle RAC or OPS. Starting with 10G, even with popularity of ASM using Raw luns over FC storage network, NFS is often a much cheaper and viable option. In the case study - the same storage system was assigned as…

Oracle releases fixes for security vulnerabilities on a quarterly basis in the form of a Critical Patch Update (CPU). The CPU is a collection of security patches for the Oracle Database, Oracle Application Server, Oracle Collaboration Suite, and Oracle business applications, including both the Oracle E-Business Suite and PeopleSoft applications. The first CPU was released…

Oracle releases fixes for security vulnerabilities on a quarterly basis in the form of a Critical Patch Update (CPU). The CPU is a collection of security patches for the Oracle Database, Oracle Application Server, Oracle Collaboration Suite, and Oracle business applications, including both the Oracle E-Business Suite and PeopleSoft applications. The first CPU was released…

Having your system configuration and IT project documentation uploaded to My Oracle Support can fill a critical need for disaster recovery. Especially if your primary site is completely lost or unavailable, or the more real possibility that the documentation was never maintained properly in the first place. Personnel would be able to find the information…

Having your system configuration and IT project documentation uploaded to My Oracle Support can fill a critical need for disaster recovery. Especially if your primary site is completely lost or unavailable, or the more real possibility that the documentation was never maintained properly in the first place. Personnel would be able to find the information…

1. Measuring and tuning Global cache performance We will breakdown the CR and CUR response time with few customer examples and show how it can be used to debug Global Cache performance. A script will be supplied to show the breakdown. 2. Tuning RAC background processes performance Earlier discussion of GC will lead tuning few…

This presentation provides practical solutions for securing your Oracle HTTP Server (OHS). It follows the approach that was used with Project Lockdown for the database to provide a phased approach to securing the web server. The introduction explains the differences in web server setup based on usage, from reverse proxy server to J2EE Application server…

This session highlights the user community status and direction in support of Oracle customer using Oracle products on System Z. This session will also include System Z user group status and direction, Linux on System Z direction, and Oracle's current status in support of Linux on System Z.

This session highlights the user community status and direction in support of Oracle customer using Oracle products on System Z. This session will also include System Z user group status and direction, Linux on System Z direction, and Oracle's current status in support of Linux on System Z.

One of the challenges developers often face during the development and testing phase is to get the test data timely populated in the development/ UAT databases. In the absence of data conversion programs, it becomes tedious manual effort to come up with test data so that various components of an application can be tested. Often…