Saturday, January 10th, 2004 by Mark Rittman
From the Oracle Universal Installer 2.3 and upwards, it is possible to
install Oracle software using HTTP, opening up the possibility of carrying out
installations over a firewall. This
OTN technical note
explains how it’s all done.
Thursday, January 8th, 2004 by Mark Rittman
More from Tom Kyte, this time on Parallel Query. Tom also quotes an interesting line from Jonathan Lewis’ Practical Oracle 8i book regarding the scalability of Parallel Query:
“You might want to get Jonathan Lewis’s book “practical Oracle8i — building efficient databases”. I think he put it beautifully when he described parallel query as a […]
Monday, January 5th, 2004 by Mark Rittman
Just before Christmas, I was working on a project that required STATSPACK,
and I couldn’t for the life of me remember how to change the STATSPACK
statistics level. Anyway, as a reminder to myself, here’s how it’s done.
From Oracle Magazine’s "Diagnosing
Performance with Statspack"
"DBAs can change the amount of information or detail of statistics
Statspack gathers by specifying a […]
Friday, January 2nd, 2004 by Mark Rittman
Jon Mead just contacted me to let me know he’d successfully installed Oracle Application Server 10g (9.0.4) on United Linux. Over to Jon;
“I have successfully installed 10g AS on Linux (United Linux
distribution). Attached is a document explaining the step (you
will also need the quick installation guide).
My initial thoughts are:
It worked (!!) with much less pain […]
