NoCOUG Journal Column – February 2016 Issue

In the February 2016 issue of the NoCOUG Journal, for the Many Things Oracle column, I discuss some of the v$ views that are lesser known or not widely used. I also touch up on the MGMTDB cluster repository database in Oracle Clusterware 12c.

Read here…

This is a Collector’s Edition, and includes the several good articles from:

  • Shyam Varan Nath – The Internet of “Things”
  • Brian Hitchcock – “Oracle Database 12c New Features” book review
  • Iggy Fernandez – The rise and fall of the NoSQL Empire
  • Lothar Flatz – Raiders of the Data Dictionary III: The Quest for the Missing Index

This is sixth installment of Many Things Oracle column in NoCOUG journal. The past articles are:

NoCOUG Journal 2015 NOV: Oracle Database 12c New Processes and SQL Developer [Magazine]

NoCOUG Journal 2015 AUG: Trace File Analyzer [Magazine]

NoCOUG Journal 2015 MAY: Listener IFILE, LREG process [Magazine]

NoCOUG Journal 2015 FEB: Oracle Database 12c new parameters [Magazine]

NoCOUG Journal 2014 NOV: Miscellaneous 12c new features [Magazine]

Thank you NoCOUG for the opportunity…

Install and Upgrade Grid Infrastructure 12.1.0.2

Happy New Year!

Upgraded 12.1.0.1 Grid Infrastructure to 12.1.0.2 and applied the Oct 2014 PSU. Had an error during rootupgrade.sh as well, due to the ASM spfile being on disk instead of on ASM diskgroup (MOS Note: Upgrading ASM Failed With ORA-32002: cannot create SPFILE – Doc ID 1912581.1).

The install & upgrade steps documented in PDF and uploaded to slideshare