Tag Archives: database

Restarting Autoupgrade Jobs When the Instance Won’t Restart

When upgrading databases, my preferred method of late has been the autoupgrade tool. Autoupgrade gives DBAs the ability to upgrade databases in batches, automatically performing prechecks, postchecks, and custom database tasks during the upgrade process. Autoupgrade can be downloaded from MOS note #2485457.1, and tests shown here used the most current version at the time… Read More »

Configuring VNCR for 11.2.0.4 Oracle RAC

By default on an Oracle RAC installation, the listeners are configured to allow any database to register with them.  There is no security out of the box to determine which databases may register.  While this makes it easy to create new databases without worrying about listener registration, this can cause potential problems in a real environment.… Read More »

Exadata Storage Server Version 12.1.1.1.0 Released

Oracle has released the much-anticipated version of cellsrv compatible with Oracle Database 12.1.0.1 (patch #16980054). Before thinking about upgrading, read MOS note #1571789.1 carefully.  Unless you are planning to run database 12c on your Exadata, it would be advisable to continue down the 11.2 branch of the cellsrv software, which currently has a latest version… Read More »

Oracle Announces Exadata X4-2

Today, Oracle announced the Exadata X4-2 model.  The X4 has some considerable improvements, namely: 12-core Intel Xeon e5-2697 CPUs, up from the 8-core models found in the X3-2 (hello, database licenses!) 256GB RAM per database server, upgradeable to 512GB 96GB RAM per storage server 800GB Sun Flash F80 cards – 3.2TB of storage per cell… Read More »