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 | Apr 5, 2013 | Blog, Databases
We have a client who needs to run monthly reports from their financial application. When we first started working for them, the monthly report took nearly a week to complete. We noticed a huge amount of logfile waits and did the classic tuning task of...
by XTIVIA | Feb 20, 2013 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
We had a Virtual-DBA customer request that we install and configure a new Grid Control agent on a new server with existing databases. While there are several ways to do this, we wanted the customer to be able to perform this task by themselves in the future. The...
by XTIVIA | Feb 11, 2013 | Blog, Data Management, Databases
A client called with an issue running a script from a 3rd party vendor.. He was getting Oracle error ORA-01502 while running the supplied script. The ORA-01502 is basically stating that there is an invalid index/partition. A simple select on the dba_indexes table...
