dba - Svetoslav Gyurov technical blog

Upgrade to Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c Release 3 (12.1.0.3)

Just a quick wrap up on EM12cR3 upgrade. I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised that everything went so smooth. I didn’t expected anything else, but with so how many products and components we have there I got few things in mind. The version I got was

10.2

Failed creating physical standby database

These days I’m implementing Oracle Dataguard for two Oracle databases 10.2 as part of disaster recovery project, one of them is around 1.7TB, not yet production. As part of the DG setup backups have to be available for both primary and standby. I preferred to use ASM

10.2

ASM diskgroup unable to mount because of duplicate disk

This is something I would like to share for a long time, but for one or another reason I didn't. The error is nothing special, but then I run into very interesting case. This happen when I had to shutdown one server for maintenance and then boot it again. Once

apex

Setup Subversion on Oracle Enterprise Linux

As I mentioned in my previous post I'm using Subversion to keep my SQL design, APEX application and all application serving files. Concurrent Versions System are not something new and they are must for big projects. Although I'm single person, I'm finding SVN very useful for many reasons: All my

apex

Why I like Oracle Application Express

Few years ago when I was Linux system administrator I already knew PHP and I used it to create monitoring scripts for the servers and services that I was responsible for. They were really simple application which I kept open in a browser window and integrated javascript to alert me