Oracle Database File System (DBFS) is a shared file system like NFS and consists of a server (Oracle Database) and a client (dbfs_client in Linux or internal database client). The dbfs_client provides a command interface to allow files to be easily copied in and out of the database from any host on the network. On ...
When downtime matters you need to determine high availability ratios, this is often expressed as the percentage (%) of uptime in a year. The following table shows the approximate downtime that is allowed for a specific percentage of high availability: The following table from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) illustrates the correlation from a ...
I’m proud to say that I was invited to take the Exadata Certification, the exam is still beta. The recommended learning path would be “Oracle Application Integration Architecture Implementation Specialist“ that meets all the certification needs. (Available to Oracle and Specialized Partners) Exam Topics are: Oracle Database 11g software [ ] Use common database features [ ] Leverage ...
Exadata blogs by Oracle folks Kevin Closson - http://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/tag/exadata Greg Rahn – http://structureddata.org/tag/exadata Dan Norris - http://www.dannorris.com/tag/exadata ...
Who should read this white paper? This white paper is intended to be accessible to those who are not relatively new to the Real Applications Cluster performance. Familiarity with advanced Oracle concepts and SQL language is assumed. About Technical Reviewers Pablo Albeck – Oracle Practice Manager at Oracle Corporation, with several years of experience in ...
Introduction 11g Release 2 has introduced a new option to administer the cluster called “Police-based Management”, traditional physical method is still available. This is an incredible new feature that needs to be researched, clearly marks the new direction that Oracle wants to give us, BTW, it’s a smart direction/possibility where the efforts will be concentrated ...
Still reviewing. Thanks for your interest. I wrote a White Paper that actually is under revision. It will be distributed the first month exclusively from http://oracleracsig.org Bookmark this page and come back after Jun 21, 2010. Regards, J ...
Finally approved the exam 1z0-050, my OCP certification is uptodate. Now preparing the Oracle Certified Master 11g. I would recommend the Robert G. Freeman book called “Oracle Database 11g New Features”, foreword by Tom Kyte. You will find this book used/new in Amazon starting from 15 bucks. Note: 1z0-050 is an upgrade exam. Certification ...
This utility was introduced in Oracle 11.1, it is an excellent tool to understand if your actual workload is overloading your disks or file systems. I/O is very important in an Oracle database so I really recommend to all DBAs the use of this great utility to know the actual capacity of your hardware. Below ...