At the company where I’m working right now, I’m part of an architecture effort to come up with our standard design for RAC on Linux across the firm. There will be dozens or possibly hundreds of deployments globally using the design we settle on. We’re internally debating whether or not we should include OCFS2 in [...]
Future of OCFS2
February 5th, 2009 § 4 Comments
Robust Software Version Numbering
December 5th, 2008 § Leave a Comment
This article isn’t directly database-related, but I think it’s a great software engineering topic so it seemed worth writing about. Right now I’m involved in a project that involves releasing software packages of a few different flavors. Some of them are other people’s software that we’re re-packaging (like oracle database binaries) and some are code [...]
Parsing LISTENER.ORA with awk and sed
November 28th, 2008 § 4 Comments
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone in the US! And happy belated thanksgiving to everyone in Canada since you celebrated back at the beginning of October. :) I’ve been doing a lot of scripting work lately. Although I can’t write about everything I’m doing, I would like to post a pattern that I thought could be useful [...]
Oracle Fully Automated Install and Patch
October 22nd, 2008 § 12 Comments
Before I started consulting, I was an Oracle engineer in a very large software development organization. The company had a number of major products and the one I worked with was used by hospitals and radiology offices world-wide. (These guys are one of the biggest companies worldwide in the field.) Our product included the hardware [...]
ASMLIB Performance vs Udev
October 8th, 2008 § 7 Comments
Is asmlib obsolete on a modern Linux system? I’m still undecided but starting to lean toward “yes”. Everybody knows that asmlib was very useful when it was first introduced with Oracle 10.1 to simplify a host of issues on Linux: direct async device access without raw devices, file permissions & ownership without custom code, and [...]
Collaborate Wrapup, RAC 11g/VMware Lab
April 24th, 2008 § 2 Comments
So Collaborate is over and I’m back in Chicago… home sweet home. I thoroughly enjoyed the week in Denver, in spite of the snow! Thursday, the last day, was especially fun. First was a panel debate “To RAC or Not To RAC: What’s Best for HA.” Dan Norris invited me to participate in this panel [...]
Oracle Services on RAC at Collaborate
April 16th, 2008 § 4 Comments
Just a quick post to say that I’ve uploaded the slides from my services presentation at Collaborate and you can find them over on the publications page. Thanks to everyone who attended!! Great questions and comments throughout the session. Next time I’ll try to get through everything faster so that there’s more time for Q&A! [...]