by XTIVIA | Feb 14, 2014 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
I was working with a customer the other day and they were asking for some help setting up dbconsole for their 12c database. It seems that it wasn’t working out of the box and they needed some help configuring it. So of course I said sure no problem! I have done...
by XTIVIA | Jan 31, 2014 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
If you have ever tried to install a Linux distro on XenServer you have probably run into the installation showing the non-GUI version. Which is perfectly useable, but sometimes it’s just faster and easier to click through the install. So how I get around this issue is...
by XTIVIA | Jan 30, 2014 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
So at one time or another most of us have run into an issue where no matter what we install or try we just can’t get a unix system to throw an x window for anything. Well I personally have run into this issue often enough that I thought I would throw together a...
by Kathleen Long | Jan 23, 2014 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
Bloated Transaction log in Simple recovery mode will not shrink Received a request today from a Virtual-DBA customer asking XTIVIA to help troubleshoot why a database which is only 50MBs in size would have a transaction log of 181GB. My first thought fell to an open...
by XTIVIA | Jan 15, 2014 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
What you need to know about Database Mirroring In recent months I have set up database mirroring for a number of clients. Why you may ask? It is a great option for disaster recovery and even gives the organization additional options when it comes to maintenance...
by XTIVIA | May 24, 2013 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
A couple a days ago we had a client contact us and ask us to take a look as their Oracle Cloud Control 12c. They were having issues with a few targets that were reporting as being down on one screen and up on another. We logged into the server and tried to run ./emctl...
by XTIVIA | May 13, 2013 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
We have a Virtual-DBA client that was rapidly running out of space for one of their databases in VMWare. To rectify the problem we decided to move a few tablespaces to a new LUN/disk presented to the VMWare OS. We had a scheduled downtime window so we didn’t need to...
by XTIVIA | May 13, 2013 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
This Saturday we were scheduled to patch eight oracle 11gR2 databases with the latest CPU/SPU set for one of our Virtual-DBA clients. The databases were running in a zone on Solaris 10. This is normally a pretty straight forward process, but this weekend we ran into...
by XTIVIA | May 7, 2013 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
So today we had a Virtual-DBA client ask us to help them patch their Oracle Financials R12 for a bug they were having a problem with. So I thought I would share with you the process we used to patch their server. They had sent me the patch number that Oracle support...
by XTIVIA | Feb 26, 2013 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
Often I am asked about the importance of a security audit, with the majority of these questions being asked by representatives of smaller organizations. The questions are centered around if there is a need to perform a security audit when the organization has taken...
