Life is a State of Mind » oracle http://blog.scottnolan.org ideas, thoughts, rants Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:14:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Rant about Oracle 11G http://blog.scottnolan.org/2009/02/03/rant-about-oracle-11g/ http://blog.scottnolan.org/2009/02/03/rant-about-oracle-11g/#comments Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:24:54 +0000 snolan http://blog.scottnolan.org/?p=1221 It’s not an alert nor error log file if it is encoded in XML format!!!!!

Oracle’s 11G listener drops xml rather than plain text log files, yet their engineers will ask you to go find the plain text logs which are now hidden in a new trace directory…. eye roll.

]]> http://blog.scottnolan.org/2009/02/03/rant-about-oracle-11g/feed/ 1 Moved an Oracle Database Today http://blog.scottnolan.org/2008/10/29/moved-an-oracle-database-today/ http://blog.scottnolan.org/2008/10/29/moved-an-oracle-database-today/#comments Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:26:59 +0000 snolan http://blog.scottnolan.org/?p=903 Yesterday and today my co-workers and I moved a big Oracle database from one old Sun V440 (anyone want to buy some Sun gear?) to a newer Sun T2000. I love my work, it’s fascinating to plan minimal downtime, and try to get all the details right on the new server so the users and customers notice very little change other than everything just works faster.

Sadly, this time, we managed to miss a lot of custom configuration that had never been documented before; but it is now… and we are exhausted, and very happy to have production running on our new box. We’ll save 15 amps of power (those old Sun V440 and StorEdge 3500 trays burn lots of electricity).

I love my job…. Now if I could just figure out why Sun changes pooladm, pset, and zonecfg syntax with every patch bundle….

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