ORA-12541 TNS no listener

ORA-12541 : TNS no listener error is generated by oracle network layer. This error occurs when the listener for the oracle server you are trying to reach is down or unreachable. ORA-12541

ITIL V3

A number of you dba's out there use ITIL in day to day life and are looking to upgrade from V2 to V3 in your organizations. Here is a quick reference that provides ITIL V3 introduction and the various areas that it addresses.

ITIL V3

ORA-03113

An ORA-03113 end-of-file on communication channel error is a very generic error that indicates that the connection has been lost. ORA-03113 is reported by the oracle client processes due to many reasons. ORA-03113 by itself does not indicate the cause of the issue and is accompanied by other messages that are either displayed on the client side or in the oracle database alertlog.

ORA-03113

ORA-12154 TNS Could not resolve service name

This is a collection of documents that refer to a solution related to this error. Looks like most of my end users are constantly googling for this..

ORA-12154

Oracle 11G - OLTP Table Compression

Oracle 11G introduces a new option to support compression of various structured, unstructured and other backup data. This option named Oracle Advanced Compression option provides multiple features including ( this feature extends the basic table compression that was available since 9i ) , Secure File Deduplication, RMAN Compression and Data Pump Compression.

Technorati : Compression, New Features, OLTP, Oracle 11g

Oracle 11G New Features - SQL Performance Analyzer

Database Administrators spend countless hours troubleshooting SQL statements that have taken upon a new life after a simple system or environment change. Oracle 11G SQL Performance Analyzer provides a solution to this never ending regressive statement issues. This new feature of Oracle 11G allows the database administrator to get a granular view of the impact to sql execution plans and statistics due to environment changes and the best part is that it completely automates the impact analysis process of extremely large SQL workloads

Oracle 11G - Database Replay

Database Replay a new feature of Oracle 11G provides DBAs and system administrators with the ability to accurately rerun actual production workloads, including online user and batch workloads, in test environments. By capturing the full database workload from production systems, including all concurrency, dependencies and timing, Database Replay enables you to realistically test system changes by essentially recreating production workloads on the test system -something that a set of scripts can never duplicate.

Technorati : New Feature, Oracle 11g, Real Application Testing

Oracle expansion in Hyderabad

Oracle and its salaries are expanding in Hyderabad Job Market at a very quick pace. During my recent trip to Hyderabad, I noticed that they have moved into their own campus and are continuing to lease a ton of office space in and around their campus. Hiring engines seem to be firing on all cylinders to meet the continued customer and consulting demand for offshore work.

ORA-03113 End of File

ORA-03113 seems to be an error that keeps haunting new dba's over and over again. Metalinks has tons of documentation on this error but a great place to start is on this ORA-03113 Error

Some of the regular readers have complained about ORA-12154 and here is a link to resolving the ORA-12154 error

ORA-00918 ate our weekend

A good explanation about solving the ORA-00918 issue.

Oracle is easier to manage than DB2

An interesting study by Edison Group that announced that oracle saves 38% in RDBMS Management cost over IBM DB2. Looks like this study is based on a study of the administrative tasks and the time it takes to complete those tasks. It claims that Oracle will save upto $30K+ in administrative costs...

More info can be found here and here

Oracle Accelerate for Small and Medium Businesses

Oracle announced Oracle Accelerate that delivers a complete set of applications and implementation tools combined with a partner system that delivers maximum value to small and medium enterprises implementing Oracle Applications.

More information can be found here

Hacking Oracle through Google

Hope you all got your hands on "Google Hacking for Penetration Testers” by Johnny Long by now.. if not, you can read a summary by don burleson over here

OOW Oracle announces Unbreakable Linux Support

Oracle Unbreakable Linux is a support program that provides enterprises with industry-leading global support for Linux. Recognizing the demand for true enterprise-quality Linux support and seeing an opportunity to significantly reduce IT infrastructure costs, Oracle is now offering Linux operating system support.

More information about this program can be found here

Oracle CRM on Demand Release 10

Siebel Acquisition and Integrations activities are known to be moving at a very fast pace. Today oracle announced the CRM on demand release 10, based on siebel's hosted CRM application. It claims to deliver the powerful sales, marketing and service fuctionality per the new release at Oracle DBA Spot

And the heat is on for Sales Force.Com ......

"One of the key features that led us to Oracle CRM On Demand, instead of Salesforce.com, is the mass list updating that helps us keep our data as clean as possible and reassign mass records for our new sales staff," said Dave Hannum, National Sales Manager from Technogym USA Corporation. "We have seen huge productivity gains just with these advanced list management capabilities. In particular, the context-sensitive help quickly and easily guides sales people through defining list criteria for their own outbound marketing efforts giving them more time to spend selling instead of on administrative overhead.

Oracle 10g Express Edition Wins LinuxWorld Award

Oracle Database XE is the free starter edition database that is known to work on a wide range of 32-bit Linux operating systems, including Mandriva, Power Pack+, SUSE 9 and SUSE 10, Red Hat 4, Fedora and Ubuntu. This product has received an award at the recent Linux World in Boston.

More information can be found here

Oracle and Novell to Offer Grid-Ready Solution

Novell and Oracle today announced availability of a new Accelerator service designed to help customers streamline the deployment of a grid-ready infrastructure for the data center, featuring Oracle(r) Database 10g, Oracle Real Application Clusters, Oracle Application Server 10g, and Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g for customers running on SUSE(r) Linux Enterprise Server from Novell. The solution takes advantage of Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control (Oracle Grid Control) and the Automated Storage Management feature of Oracle Database 10g to provide a complete, customer-ready management solution for monitoring and managing grid applications and infrastructure software and storage.

This new Accelerator is a service engagement wherein skilled personnel from Oracle will work with Novell, HP and Egenera to expedite implementation and deployment of Oracle's Grid Computing infrastructure software onto SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. Already field-proven with existing joint customers, this accelerator helps minimize risk while speeding time-to-market for enterprise grid-based applications. The new Accelerator is offered with flexible optional pricing designed to fit into customer budget and deployment requirements.

Back after a long Outage on this blog

I had been away for a couple of weeks, in Hyderabad, India to meet some of my vendors and to see them in action.

Things are moving fast and the Indian Economy is on a fast pace to achieving record growth. China should be worried now, considering that this vibrant democracy is able to sustain an 8+% growth rate inspite of the corruption that is rampant in every corner of this country.

My host gave me a tour of the available real estate and land prices are comparable to Manhattan, NY

Anyway, I am back and lookfoward to more rants about Oracle Operations soon.

DBA's Learn Oracle in 2 days

Today while browsing around on OTN I stumbled upon this link called "Getting Started with Oracle". Embedded in that page was a quote "DBA's : Learn Oracle in 2 days ". The page goes on to explain the 10 steps in Learning Oracle Database Administration.

Another link on this site took me a Oracle 10g 2 Day DBA Document that says that the audience of this material are Developers who want to acquire part-time DBA Skills, Folks who need to manage departmental servers and Administrators managing Oracle for small and medium businesses.

God Help Us All !!

Oracle Expands its Offerings in Embedded DB Software

Oracle recently announced the acquisition of Sleepy Cat, a maker of embedded database systems. Sleepy cat is famous for its Berkeley DB Engine that comes as Berkeley DB, Java Optimized Berkeley DB and the Berkeley DB XML Edition. This is an exciting expansion of Oracle's product line since Oracle never had a strong hold in this area. The most prominent user of Berkeley's products has been google in all its personalization systems that include gmail, google groups etc.

Typically embedded databases are different from conventional databases by the fact that they run in process with the application and store the data locally instead of requiring a separate installation. They are used in many devices that we see and use in our daily lives including appliances, networking gear like switches and routers.

Oracle announced that it intends to continue the dual license mode where they will continue to let the database to be used in Open Source Implementations as well as a closed source distribution where the product Oracle has no plans to change the dual license, and we will continue to serve both open source and commercial users.