Blog Aggregator - Amardeep Sidhu

I haven’t finished writing up the conference and already the presentations are downloadable from the conference agenda page. Sigh.

The password is the usual one. If you don’t know it, your membership’s regular contact should be able to tell you. Otherwise e-mail the UKOUG office, which is quicker than attempting to crack it yourself (although as it’s a regular dictionary word with no baroque capitalisation or numbers your rainbow tables won’t break a sweat).

Not all the presentations are available. As speakers we had until Friday 7th December to upload the really final version of the slides so perhaps some people didn’t make that deadline. Also, putting our slides online was not compulsory. It’s a shame, because there are a couple of talks which I missed which are not there yet.

As of Dec. 06th. 2007 the new Enterprise Manager version 10.2.0.4 is available in OTN and Edelivery.
This patchset does not only contain bugfixes but also a number of NEW FEATURES .
Here is an overview of the new features if you upgrade from 10.2.0.3:

Provides data masking, that is the capability to replace sensitive data with false but realistic looking […]

“Hi, this is Fred, the DB is down. Call me.”, is not an appropriate message.

First of all, Fred who? Fred in accounting or Fred in customer service. It makes a difference to me.

Which DB is down? OK, so you don’t know the exact database, tell me the application you are using.

Oh, and Fred, leave me a number where I can get back to you. It’s 2:00 in the morning and I’m nowhere near a

That’s what I thought of myself after spending an hour trying to figure out what I had done wrong in my setup.
So here is a little challenge I derived from this experience:
1. I set up a 5 node 10gR2 RAC over a mix of 5 Xeon and Opteron 4 cores. The interconnect […]