Oracle on Amazon EC2
Chet www.oraclenerd.com sent me link about Oracle running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. Did not have chance to play with it yet but I would like to explore it more.. Demo can be found at: http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/cloud/demos/oracle_on_ec2_viewlet_swf.htm If you had a chance to run database on EC2 please post your comments… cons & pros…
Performance Tools Quick Reference Guide
A friend of mine asked me if I know of any tools similar to trace analyzer (TRCANLZR) .Some time ago someone said that Metalink has a note listing all of available tools… I did some research and found a note 438452.1
ORA-01017 while configuring 11g data guard
When configuring data guard using DGMGRL utility add database ‘boston’ as connect identifier is boston maintained as physical; I would get ORA-01017 invalid username/password error… I realized that this is related to case sensitive passwords in 11g…
Using BBED to “fix” Sys password.
One of my “oldies” … http://www.orafaq.com/node/1408 BBED executable is not shipped with 11g but you can get it from previous Oracle releases.. Get BBED executable from previous release e.g. copy libraries ssbbded.o and sbbdpt.o to 11g home