I ran in to a small issue while applying the July 2016 quarterly patch to a couple of Exadata racks last week. The systems were running GI 12.1.0.2, previously with the January 2016 PSU. The patches applied successfully, and we were beginning the process of running the post-patch scripts on the databases in the cluster. This… Read More »
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 »
One of the things that I’ve touched on before that tends to bother me – role separated grid infrastructure installations – gave me another reason to show my dislike a few weeks ago. While working on a system that was being upgraded from 11.2.0.2 to 11.2.0.3, we ran into a strange issue. After upgrading from… Read More »