Note: Yes I re-(ab)used the title.As some of you may know (if you follow me on twitter), after 16 years as an Oracle DBA, I made a career shift last summer. I hung up the Oracle spurs (and that sweet Oracle Ace vest) and threw on a pair of PostgreSQL...
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Sending notifications from Oracle Enterprise Manager to VictorOps
We use VictorOps for our paging/notification system, and we're pretty happy with it so far. On the DBA team, we've just been using a simple email gateway to send notifications from Oracle Enterprise Manager (EM) to VictorOps. Even then, we can only send the initial notification and not really send...
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Just XFS Things
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The Leap Second is No Laughing Matter (if you have java on an older Linux kernel)
Earlier this month we began getting frequent email warnings from our EM12c server that some agents were experiencing read time outs. Then we saw that the emagent java process was using A LOT of CPU, regularly around 500% but sometimes as high as 800% as seen from "top". Restarting the...
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Upgrade to Oracle 12c, Get the Huge Trace Files for Free!
Last week we began testing a copy of our production database on Oracle 12c (12.1.0.2). This past weekend we were alerted that the disk holding our ADR diagnostic directory was near full. We noticed some pretty big (and recent) trace files there. Then it happened twice more. This last time...
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