Blog Aggregator - Amardeep Sidhu

I thought it might be interesting for those of us that don’t administer RAC environments on a daily basis to talk to someone that does. Scott Rupnik is one of our senior-level RAC administrators. Since we administer RAC implementations for many different customers, Scott has experience administering RAC ecosystems that use many different hardware, operating system and disk storage combinations.

This provides Scott with a unique skill set this is pretty rare in our profession. In addition, since Scott has a strong background in both database and operating system administration, he is able to provide us with insight on both of these two tightly coupled RAC components.

One of the benefits of working for a remote database services provider is the caliber of people you get to work with. We have some very talented people here at Contemporary Technologies (CTi) and I fully intend to leverage their expertise to improve the quality of this blog.

In addition, I now have access to a wide range of technologies and Oracle features. Since we provide services to many different companies, I will be able to expand the scope of this blog to cover a much wider spectrum of topics.


I’ll provide you with a quick preview of what is coming in the future. In my next blog, I’ll interview Scott Rupnik. Scott is our resident 10G RAC expert. We’ll discuss the benefits of 10G RAC and Scott will provide some helpful hints and tips on 10G RAC installation and administration.

Readers of this blog know that I rarely stray off topic. The intent of this blog to provide technical information to readers that is hopefully both informative and interesting.

That being said, I thought I would write one blog on my personal career path. A career path that will be different by the time my next blog is released. Rest assured that I intend to get back on topic as soon as ppssible.

I was going to show you how to schedule statistics gathering jobs manually in 10G Grid Control, but I just used a neat feature that I’d like to show you. 10G Grid Control R2 provides a Hang Analysis tool that helps administrators easily identify contention problems.

We recently used the Hang Analysis feature to quickly identify an application transaction that was blocking other transactions from successfully executing. I thought it might be beneficial for us to deviate from our intended topic of discussion to review 10G R2 Grid Control’s Hang Analysis tool. This is one feature that I think you’ll find to be VERY worthwhile!