Project Name 11gR2/2011 Author Francisco Munoz Alvarez Software Used Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.6 Oracle VirtualBox 4.0.2 Oracle 11.2.0.2 Database and Infrastructure Software Date 02/02/2011 The idea of this tutorial is to show you how you can create an Oracle Database 11gR2 using Oracle VirtualBox and OEL. This installation should never be used for Production or…
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Playing with Oracle 11gR2, OEL 5.6 and VirtualBox 4.0.2 (1st Part)
Project Name 11gR2/2011 Author Francisco Munoz Alvarez Software Used Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.6 Oracle VirtualBox 4.0.2 Oracle 11.2.0.2 Database and Infrastructure Software Date 02/02/2011 The idea of this tutorial is to show you how you can create an Oracle Database 11gR2 using Oracle VirtualBox and OEL. This installation should never be used for Production or…
Playing with Oracle 11gR2, OEL 5.6 and VirtualBox 4.0.2 (2nd Part)
Project Name 11gR2/2011 Author Francisco Munoz Alvarez Software Used Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.6 Oracle VirtualBox 4.0.2 Oracle 11.2.0.2 Database and Infrastructure Software Date 02/02/2011 The idea of this tutorial is to show you how you can create an Oracle Database 11gR2 using Oracle VirtualBox and OEL. This installation should never be used for Production or…
Bye bye 2010, Welcome 2011
First than all, I’ll like to apologize to all my friends and followers for the absence of posts on my blog for the last few months but this last months were very intense to me as you can see bellow. The 2010 was a great year full of great, fantastic and wonderful experiences and news,…
NZOUG and LAOUC June and July Webinars (Recording)
Hi All, NZOUG (New Zealand Oracle Users Group) and LAOUC (Latin American Oracle Users Communty) is organizing a serie of webinars to Oracle Community (over 42 Webinars) with the participation of several Oracle Celebrities, and is my desire to share the first 8 webinars recorded with all Oracle Users around the world! Please find bellow all the webinars recorded…
Tip of the Month: How to have super powers using Data Pump!
A lot of people don’t know several powerful functionalities that we have available when using Data Pump (expdp/impdp), most of the people only use these tools to export and import data (in other words, only to move data), and never notice that it can be used for example to help us to do: Data Masking…
Discovering the New Zealand Oracle Market
The New Zealand conference this year was a great event, with a little over 150 participants and with a fantastic group of speakers and topics (For more information please refer to http://www,nzoug.org ). From Left to Right: Guy Harrison, Chris Muir, Tim Hall, Robert Freeman, Daniel Morgan, and Francisco Munoz Alvarez. During the event, my…
Tip of the month – Magic for DBAs
Who never had a problem with a SQL that is killing your Database Performance and you can’t fix it because it’s running from an external closed application that you or your developers can’t touch? Since Oracle version 10 this is a problem of the past, now you can easy solve this kind of problem using…
DBA Tip of the Month: Jan/2010
I want to start this New Year creating a new session on my blog called “DBA Tip of the month” where I will try to post every month an important tip to help all fellows DBAs to improve their careers. The first topic of this session will be: “Being Proactive with Backup & Recovery”…
DB_ULTRA_SAFE a new GEM for High Availability
DB_ULTRA_SAFE is a new parameter introduced with Oracle 11gR1, and a fantastic new GEM for High Availability, that using Data Guard to configure on both the primary and standby will trigger the most comprehensive data corruption prevention and detection (and repair on 11gR2, see **) tool in the market. ** Starting in Oracle Database 11g Release…