Blog Archive
Link to article published in Toad World, on how to apply an out-of-place patch to Grid Infrastructure, using a Golden Image.
Link to article published in Toad World, on how to apply an out-of-place patch to Grid Infrastructure, in rolling mode.
Link to article published in Oracle Technology Network, about how to use an Oracle Home clone to apply patches.
Link to article published in Toad World, about how to overcome the lack of archivelogs to synchronize a standby database in Oracle.
The enq: CF - contention event could be resolved with controlfile maintenance if the controlfile contains a large number of archived log records.
If the Oracle optimizer chooses inefficient execution plans on queries that use MAX or MIN, it is possible that this is bug 5611962.
What to do if you encounter the ORA-600 [kcrf_resilver_log_1] or ORA-600 [4193] error in an Oracle database.
Procedure to follow when you want to replace the disks on which the ocr and voting disks reside in Oracle.
How in AIX the use of Olson instead of Posix for the timezone can cause slowness and how to solve it.
How to properly configure the database and the listener when using a port other than 1521, to avoid the ORA-12514 error.
A very serious vulnerability associated with the DBMS_JVM_EXP_PERMS package has been made public, which opens the door to unpredictable damage.