One of your end users attempts to modify a record, and the user is prompted with a dialog box asking "Could not reserve record [2 tries]. Keep trying?" The user answers "yes" and after being prompted a few more times the user gives up. Ultimately the user gets a "FRM-40501: ORACLE error: unable to reserve record for update or delete." When … [Read more...]
In-Memory Undo
Presented by: Craig Shallahamer, Founder, Orapub I attended Craig’s second presentation, this on In-Memory Undo (IMU). This was another great presentation on a feature I have to admit I really knew nothing about. In a nutshell, “traditional” undo uses physical blocks, just like any other segment. If a query needs to read an undo block to … [Read more...]
Breaking Oracle
Presented by: Jeremiah Wilton, Blue Gecko Jeremiah’s patented Breaking Oracle seminar – a one-hour condensed version of a full-day class – was again a huge hit. To a packed room, Jeremiah mercilessly rained spins, hangs, corruption, and a variety of other Oracle failures and disasters on a poor, unsuspecting test 11hg database, then demonstrated … [Read more...]
Enterprise Database Security – A Practical Example
I attended this presentation without a lot of practical hands-on knowledge of using OID with either the database or E-Business Suite. Blue Gecko has several SOX-beholden customers, and we plan to implement OID for EBS soon; centralized control for database accounts would also be a huge boon. … [Read more...]
Deriving Optimal Configuration Values Using 11g Database Replay
Presented by: Jeremiah Wilton, Blue Gecko OK, so, no, I’m not going to steal Jeremiah’s thunder here. What I am going to do is post his presentation, and give you a teaser: All bias aside, Real Application Testing is a truly revolutionary 11g feature that every DBA should get to know. As Jeremiah demonstrates, its uses go far beyond planning … [Read more...]
Introduction to Oracle BI Enterprise Edition Plus
Presented by: Adam Lee, Product Manager, Oracle My first session of the day was a little dry. The overview was very typical Oracle stuff: A bunch of slides displaying block-pyramids with each block sporting important terms like “INFRASTRUCTURE” and “ABSTRACTION ENGINE.” I was hoping to see potential support impact on Blue Gecko. Eventually, … [Read more...]
Running Oracle in the Amazon EC2 Cloud
This is a subject I have much interest in and something we are working on very hard at Blue Gecko; Amazon is positioning itself as an Oracle partner and leader in the Oracle/cloud space and I want to know anything I can about what other people are doing, which is why this presentation was not what I was hoping it would be. The gentleman presenting … [Read more...]
What should I check after bouncing E-Business Suite?
As an Oracle Apps administrator, it's a good idea to have a punch list of things to check after your applications have been started, to ensure all services are working correctly. For Release 11i, the following steps are a good starting point. It will take a few extra minutes to work through this list, but it's certainly more aggravating to get … [Read more...]
Oracle, MySQL, MariaDB, and Drizzle. oh my.
To follow up on Chuck's post from earlier this week, I want to say that yes, on Monday morning I raced across the office to share the crazy news that Oracle is trying to buy MySQL Sun. Though, I don't remember yelling. But, I did have a real point here and that is that the numbers that he quoted are prior to the Enterprise / Community split that … [Read more...]
Oracle also acquires MySQL… right?
Yes, we all know that Oracle has acquired Sun. Or intends to. They still have to get through a few hurdles, one of which will be the SEC. My first thought upon hearing the news (delivered by Sarah, running over to the copy machine yelling, "Did you hear?! Oracle just bought Sun!!" causing me to completely jam the automatic paper feeder, and … [Read more...]
FNDCPASS doesn’t always use the SYSTEM password
FNDCPASS does not check the system password when used to change an applications user account. We can check this with a simple test. First, we’ll change the SYSTEM password to the default value “manager”: … [Read more...]
Oracle Education – Our First DBA Class!!
We are very pleased to announce our very first Oracle Class open to the general public! Taught by our very own Jeremiah Wilton, this class is titled “Hands-on Oracle Database Administration one-week Total Immersion.” We are pleased to offer the opportunity to build upon your professional skills with a week-long hands-on intensive … [Read more...]
MySQL Conference in just more than a week
Alas, I won't be attending the conference but in reading the speaking schedules, I found several talks that I hope will be recorded and published later. Many are directly applicable to our customers and the work we do for them, some would tickle my inner geek and a few are super interesting for what they portend for the data management … [Read more...]
Blue Gecko featured at Oracle Technology Solutions Fair
Blue Gecko has been recognized as a key Oracle partner, and will participate with the Seattle Oracle database team at the Oracle Technology Solutions Fair. Jeremiah Wilton and JJ Ecker will be on site to answer questions about the latest database features, tuning, and general Oracle database questions, so please register for the fair today and … [Read more...]
Blue Gecko Announces Free Oracle Database Performance Reviews
SEATTLE, WA--(Marketwire - March 31, 2009) - Seattle-based remote DBA services company Blue Gecko, Inc. (http://www.bluegecko.dk), is now offering free performance evaluations. The promotion will extend through 6/30/2009. Blue Gecko President Chuck Edwards cited the importance of keeping databases in tune, especially now that so many people are … [Read more...]
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