I had an interesting problem happen with a customer late last week. A monitor we maintain on the alert log suddenly paged us with ORA-1116, ORA-1110 and ORA-27041 (Can’t open a database file, too many open files). Nothing had changed on this system in months. After running: lsof | awk ‘{print $9}’ | sort | [...]

My presentation from Collaborate 2008 is now available on the Downloads page.

For those of you who missed it, Collaborate 08 in Denver was a great conference this year. Too many papers to get to all the sessions that you wanted to attend (in my mind, that is the major mark of a strong program). I want to publicly congratulate Sandra Vucinic on being named the OAUG [...]