Infrastructure at your Service
In march 2011, my colleague Gregory Steulet published an article about Simulating and testing I/O performances with Orion. In this article, he wrote about a bug concerning Orion on Oracle 11.2, reported in Oracle bug number 9104898: “ORION FAILS WITH ORA-27061: WAITING FOR ASYNC I/OS FAILED”. Trying to compare performances of storage devices on a virtual machine between a classical and a paravirtual storage adapter, I experienced the same error when using large IOs. I…
I had the opportunity to spend two days in England (Birmingham) to participate in the UKOUG 2012. My first day was the Middleware sunday. This event is related to technical content and feedback for WebLogic administrators. It was an interesting day with useful feedback related to Oracle WebLogic. This Sunday middleware agenda event was as follows: WebLogic Sctripting Tool – Taking WLST to the Next Level (Simon Haslam, Veriton Limited) Node Manager under the Covers…
In this blog, I will explore the HTML 5 new item type features of Oracle APEX 4.2. The objective is to use the new number, e-mail, phone number and url html 5 item type and the native browser validation capability. I have created a new database application with the theme 25 which fatures responsive design principles (auto adjusts to the screen dimensions and works well on desktop, tablet and mobile devices). Nice Themes! To continue…
I spent three interesting days at the DOAG Konferenz 2012 – the German Oracle User Group’s conference. It was the 25th birthday and my first time as a DOAG Konferenz speaker. In this post, I will not talk about my presentation, but rather give you information from the sessions I went to. I will talk about three areas: Oracle WebLogic 12c, monitoring & diagnostics, and licensing. Regarding WebLogic, Mr. Munz from munz & more described…
Oracle Apex 4.2 is now available on the Oracle Website. It is available since 12 october 2012. This new release comes with new features briefly described in this blog posting. First of all, here are the new features delivered by the Apex 4.2 release. HTML 5 and CSS 3 improvements: Relooking of all the administration workspace Html 5 charts Html 5 item types (number, e-mail, telephone and URL) New Html 5 themes Mobile support with…
Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch is a new application development tool wich allows to create fast and nice web and desktop applications. The development environment is the same as the other .NET development tools and creating a new application with LightSwitch works, at the beginning, exactly like with other .NET application: create a new project and choose your programmation’s language between Visual Basic and C#. The following will change our habits. In fact instead of creating…
Although the managed server on which Java Virtual Machine Diagnostics (JVMD) manager is deployed is configured to use the the Node Manager like OMS and admin server, it is not started automatically with OMS. In this post, I will describe how to start JVMD manager automatically when the physical server boots. To implement the script, several steps have to be executed: Creation of a config file containing the encrypted password to connect to the NodeManager Test the…
The Documentum job dm_FTIndexAgentBoot does not start anymore and we have the following job status: The job object indicated the job was in progress. In this blog posting, I will describe how to analyze and solve this issue. Analysis The Index Agent does not start automatically when the repository is started although the option start_index_agents = T in server.ini is set. When the server is started, the dm_FTIndexAgentBoot job is normally executed, but not in…
I am in the train back to Basel (Switzerland) and I will try to summarize the day spent on a SIG Oracle Middleware of the DOAG (German Oracle User Group) session related to Oracle Middleware administration and monitoring. The different topics I saw were: WebLogic 11g clustering and high availability Overiew of the Cloud Control 12c (monitoring, automatization, quality management, cloud management Real User Experience Insight (RUEI): End-to-End User Monitoring and Java Diagnostic Administration and…
Once a replication environment is set up, it’s rarely forever. Adding tables to an Oracle GoldenGate replication group with minimal impact to the current replication is quite a difficult operation. This posting should help you with this task. In the example below, tables from schema G001 will be added to an existing replication setup from the database PROD1 to REP1. CFG_ADV_COND CFG_NARRATIVE_TEMPLATE CFG_REG_REPORT_RULES CMN_LOOKUP CMN_USER_LOGIN Stop the replication environment Connect to the source database PROD1 and…
