A few days ago, I was working at a customer and made a few changes to the running listener's configuration. After having verified that my changes were working as expected, I asked the listener to save the configuration, but the result was quite unexpected. The listener crashed with TNS-1153. I had hit bug #8612344, which is affecting all 10.2 … [Read more...]
WHY AUTOMATION IS ESSENTIAL FOR EVERY SHOP
As physical infrastructure has changed over the years, management and configuration mechanisms have evolved as well. In the old days, large machines were managed by hand in many cases, by expert administrators who understood their configuration intimately. Then, as smaller machines were integrated into the enterprise, management-by-hand became … [Read more...]