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NOTE: This post originally appeared on the Pythian blog.A few months ago, we had a test instance complaining that it couldn't write to ASM. This was an 11.1.0.7 single (non-RAC) instance on Oracle Enterprise Linux 5, using ASM for the storage. We first saw these errors in the alert log:ORA-15032:... [Read More]

Note: This post originally appeared on The Pythian Group blog.I recently reformatted my laptop with the latest Ubuntu LTS release, 10.04, aka Lucid Lynx. Since I like to have a native client installation as well as a portable sandbox server, I decided to install the latest version of Oracle EE,... [Read More]

Note: This post originally appeared at The Pythian Group blog.NOTE NOTE: Grid Infrastructure PSU 9343627 has since been revoked by Oracle, and replaced with a newer PSU. Do not apply PSU 9343627. I'm leaving this post up for educational purposes only.When news of the April 2010 PSU for Oracle 11.2... [Read More]

I maintain a drupal codebase that hosts multiple sites. I’ve been shamefully lax in getting regular backups of those files and databases, until today. Here is a pretty basic bash script that will create a bzip2 archive of the drupal codebase (including site-specific dirs), and then create mysqldump exports of... [Read More]

Originally posted on The Pythian Group blog.Full credit for this tale should go to my colleague Christo Kutrovsky for the inspiration and basic plan involved.We recently migrated a large database from Solaris SPARC to Solaris x86-64. All seemed to go well with the migration, but in the next few weeks,... [Read More]