Monthly Archives: November 2017

Installing Oracle 12.2.01 On Oracle Linux 7.4..Or..”The Story Of The Tainted Kernel”

When moving from Oracle 11.2.0.4 to a new Oracle 12c environment, we wanted to build everything on the latest and greatest levels…Little did we know we would run into quite a snag.. We installed Oracle Release 7.4, with all the … Continue reading

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Quick Setup To Monitor/Detect percieved Slowness…Or…”Put Some MDMA In The Database..”

At some time every DBA has to deal with the dreaded “The database is slow, FIX IT!” issue. To be honest? I’m not the master of tuners, and surely I’m not dealing with these things on a day-to-day basis. Oracle … Continue reading

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