An Oracle 11i DBA in South Carolina, USA.
This blog will likely focus mainly on Oracle, with a few diversions as I see fit. I would describe myself as a healthy skeptic and rather pragmatic in regard to Oracle products.
Interestingly, it can also serve as a nice place to send friends and relatives when they really want to know what I do at work. (And why I’m no expert at XP problems)
My Oracle landscape looks like this, for a total of 19 instances on 8 nodes:
- Oracle Apps 11.5.10.2 with RDBMS 11.1.0.7 on Oracle Linux 5.7 (x86-64) utilizing Dataguard over WAN to New Jersey as disaster recovery insurance
- Development, Regression Testing, Training, Sandbox and Audit versions of the 11i environment
- A handful of standalone Oracle databases (10.2 – 11.2) on Oracle Linux 5.7 (x86-64) running disparate applications. One of these runs on 32-bit Windows, due to 3rd party vendor constraints (all VMWare virtual machines)
- Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g with RDBMS 11.2 on Oracle Linux 5.7 (x86-64) with Diagnostics and Tuning packs.
- Discoverer 11g (11.1.1.3) located on a separate OL5 machine.
- RMAN backups for everything, orchestrated out of EM 11g.
All the opinions and explanations expressed in the blog are my own, use at your own risk!
Please feel free to leave comments! I’d like to know if you agree, disagree, have had a similar issue, etc.
I look forward to hearing from you.
