I received some emails recently asking were will be my next presentations, and to make it public here we go: Insync’10, Melbourne August 16 – Topic: Tips and Best Practices for DBAs @ 9:55AM to 10:40 AM more info at http://www.insync-conference.com.au/ NZOUG OTN Days, August 18 in Auckland and August 20 in Wellington – Topic…
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…
Fun and Networking in Sweden and Estonia
May was a fantastic month for networking and fun in Europe! Orcan Spring Conference and EMEA Harmony were two great conferences and my sincere congratulations to all the people involved to the success of both events. In these events I had the opportunity to see again some great friends like Joze Senegacnik, Daniel Morgan, Heli…
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…
OracleNZ, 2 years and 294,679 Unique Visitors Later
This week was my blog 2nd anniversary, it’s incredible how the time fly, after two years and 294,679 unique visitors, looks like was yesterday when I started this blog. Thank you for follow me and read my posts, you are the real reason that keep me working on this blog 🙂
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…
Error libdb.so.2: cannot open shared object file when installing Grid Control
I’m writing this post due that I receive this question almost once a week regarding OEM installations. If you see this error when installing your Oracle Enterprise Manager (Grid Control 10.2.0.3) at OEL 5 or RHEL 5: /home/oracle/OracleHomes/oms10g/Apache/Apache/bin/httpd: error while loading shared libraries: libdb.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Don’t…