Month: October 2005

one fresh download today oracle database 10g download I heard that grid control 10g release 2 may be available only in 2006. Quite annoying, since the repository cannot be on a 10gR2 db… just waiting

Great challenge today: restore to a new host from a closed noarchivelog backup on tape library. In oracle 8i and before, the only way to rename a database was to recreate the controlfile. In 9i, I could change it with nid, in 10gR2, I should never have a reason again to recreate the controlfile, because […]

I just remembered the woman who asked Lawrence Ellison why you need at least three days to get a qualified support representative when you open an iTar. Since a few days, I have been wondering why a non-dba user was not able to do sqlplus in 10gR2. Well, I saw the bug 4516865 on metalink […]