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Oracle Database Appliance – Applying one-off patches

Posted on March 5, 2012 by marcel

Until now, one of the biggest problems with the ODA was with applying one-off patches on Oracle Homes for high-impact problems. The only supported patching of an ODA was by installing an ODA patch bundle which (could) include Oracle Database … Continue reading →

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Oracle RAC – granting SYSDBA or SYSOPER is instance specific

Posted on January 9, 2012 by marcel

The default location for the password file is $ORACLE_HOME/dbs which in most cases (if you don’t have your ORACLE_HOME on a shared disk) is on a non-shared filesystem. Whenever you grant SYSDBA or SYSOPER to a database user Oracle will … Continue reading →

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Oracle Database Appliance – Installing patch 2.1.0.1.0

Posted on January 6, 2012 by marcel

Just recently (31 December 2012) the first Patch Bundle (MOS patch name 13539664 – LNX64-112-CMT: PLACE HOLDER BUG FOR OAK PATCH 2.1.0.1.0) for the ODA was released. This Patch Bundle only contains firmware updates for the shared disks (HDD) and … Continue reading →

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Oracle Database Appliance – Inventory and Package Repostitory

Posted on January 2, 2012 by marcel

An Oracle Database Appliance has its own inventory to keep track of all installed firmware and software component versions and patches. ODA patches are released in the form of patch bundles. ODA patch bundles can contain patches for: System Firmware … Continue reading →

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Oracle Database Appliance – Appliance Manager

Posted on January 2, 2012 by marcel

The Oracle Database Appliance is sold to allow customers to quickly deploy and Oracle RAC environment using Oracle’s best practices for deployment. And it is true that in less than 2 hours (thats excluding all things that needs to be … Continue reading →

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Oracle Database Appliance – Deployment Steps

Posted on January 1, 2012 by marcel

The installation (deployment) of an Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) is done by the ODA configuration manager. After you filled out all the information in the various screens (or you have loaded a parameter file and clicked next on all the … Continue reading →

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