Although I knew my Student Visa had been approved, I did not get my passport last week. Last day was my lucky day because I finally get my passport again, with the Student Visa. So the first step has ...
Big ambition — want to translate the famous ‘Oracle Core’
To accelerate my reading speed, I bought a translated book of 'Oracle Core - Essential Internals for DBAs and Developers', while I found many times I had to read the original English version to know s...
SPFILE in RAC environments
Shared SPFILE is recommended strongly in RAC environment, and I want to tell you the reason in this post. The test environment is Oracle 12c 12.1.0.2, and the installed PSU is 21948354. SQL> select...
Dangerous behavior of ‘create spfile’ in 12c RAC
These days I was testing some commands of the system parameters and the PFILE/SPFILE, and unfortunately, I encountered a really bad bug in my test environment. My RAC DB is 12.1.0.2.0, and I did below...
Job hunting in Auckland
I should write more things about my travel in New Zealand, but currently let me talk about the job hunting first. Yesterday I began to send my resume out to four companies, and now I got no informatio...
Keep Alive Setting in Oracle DB Server and Client
In our daily work, one popular question is how to keep our session alive, especially for Oracle session. I know there is a parameter named sqlnet.expire_time in the sqlnet.ora for such function in the...
Someone cracked my test machine
I built a test environment in my MicroSever Gen8, while these days I found some strange things that one server would upload lots of data to some sites and consumed all of my upload bandwidth. I tried ...
Failed today
Today I failed the test, while I thought it is good for me. I didn't prepare well for the test, and the timeline was too urgent for me. I tried to learn all the things but in fact I almost lost all th...
Know something about Flex ASM
After several days I finally learned that the Flex ASM could just worked in a cluster. When I first got this feature, I tried to build two servers, one is DB server, and another is ASM server, and wan...
Have to postpone the test of 1Z0-068
Need more time to learn the RAC administration, and more practices to master it, so have to postpone the test to Next Wednesday. Hope I can pass it successfully.
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