My presentations from Openworld are now available on the downloads page. Secrets of Successful 11gR2 Upgrades in an E-Business Suite Environment Using Oracle VM to Support an E-Business Suite Environment What Does the End of Premier Support Mean for You (from the Database SIG meeting)

I have received a lot of questions about this area recently. Here are a couple of tips and tricks I use to provide security within shell scripts. Note: The syntax I will use is for Bourne type shells. The same concepts apply to csh, but the syntax changes. The first scripting security issue for DBAs [...]

My presentation on upgrading the database to 11.1.0.7 with either 11.5.10.2 or R12 is now available on the downloads page.

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 | [...]