by Doug Groves | Jul 10, 2013 | Blog, Databases
Ran into an interesting situation recently with a managed services client running Oracle 11.1.0.7.0 Enterprise Edition on Linux in a two node RAC environment with Dataguard. The client asked to have the dataguard instance changed over to read/write to do some testing....
by Doug Groves | Feb 1, 2013 | Blog, Databases
I recently came across an issue in a 2 node RAC, Oracle 11gR2 environment for one of our Virtual-DBA clients. The client dba had created a new spfile and placed it in ASM for node 1 and then tried to restart the instance using srvctl. The instance...
by Doug Groves | Nov 28, 2012 | Blog, Databases
To me making sure your database is backed up is the most important task for a dba. But not only is it backed up, but it’s backed up correctly. I just encountered a situation where a client started receiving numerous errors in their production system. There...
