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 | [...]

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