Wednesday, July 11, 2012


Upgrade - Oracle Database 10.2.0.4 to 11.2.0.3

Oracle Database software uses 2 files (1 and 2) of the 11.2.0.3 patchset.
SQL> select name from v$database;
NAME
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TEST11G
SQL> select * from v$version;
BANNER

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Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.4.0 - 64bi
PL/SQL Release 10.2.0.4.0 – Production
CORE    10.2.0.4.0    Production
TNS for Linux: Version 10.2.0.4.0 – Production
NLSRTL Version 10.2.0.4.0 – Production


Wednesday, July 4, 2012

11gR2 Rac install on Centos 6.2 without Oracle ASMLib


Oracle ASMlib is available for linux prior to OL6 or RedHat 6. However, starting from 6, you can only use asmlib for UEK kernel.
On Linux, the built in udev is definitely a better solution to handle persistent device naming and permissions.

Without ASMLib, you don't need to worry about the raw disks everytime when there's a kernel update.