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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:41:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luis Moreno Campos</dc:creator>
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		<title>Big Data, Blink Decisions</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:23:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luis Moreno Campos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article was originally published in an internal Oracle EMEA newsletter but since it does not discloses any sensible information, I thought I could re-publish it to the general audience of this blog. Enjoy. When in 2006 Malcolm Gladwell introduced &#8230; <a href="http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/big-data-blink-decisions/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocpdba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6521867&amp;post=966&amp;subd=ocpdba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Smart Flash Redo Logging: A small step from development a giant leap in database performance</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:33:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luis Moreno Campos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[database tuning]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the first ages of Oracle Database Architecture, one of the most common bottlenecks in high load transactional systems could be the speed of the disks where the log files were stored. One of the symptoms of this problem would &#8230; <a href="http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2011/10/21/smart-flash-redo-logging-a-small-step-from-development-a-giant-leap-in-database-performance/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocpdba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6521867&amp;post=958&amp;subd=ocpdba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book of the Month: High Availability in Oracle Database 11gR2 (2nd Ed)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luis Moreno Campos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In times like these the basic engineering concepts and practices behind bundled products seem to be fading away, but for those hard skilled professionals, the clock of innovation is always ticking. New product features help IT professionals make more in &#8230; <a href="http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2011/10/11/book-of-the-month-high-availability-in-oracle-database-11gr2-2nd-ed/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocpdba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6521867&amp;post=953&amp;subd=ocpdba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Divide to conquer: Parallel load distribution and balance</title>
		<link>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2011/07/12/divide-to-conquer-parallel-load-distribution-and-balance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luis Moreno Campos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My first encounter with a machine with several CPUs was back in the university where I developed a paper about Load Balancing in a Massive Parallel Processing environment. I was trying to develop an algorithm that would balance load amongst &#8230; <a href="http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2011/07/12/divide-to-conquer-parallel-load-distribution-and-balance/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocpdba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6521867&amp;post=942&amp;subd=ocpdba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to gain space on indexes of HCC partitioned tables</title>
		<link>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2011/06/30/how-to-gain-space-on-indexes-of-hcc-partitioned-tables/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luis Moreno Campos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The problem only exists because indexed information is not HCC compressed in Exadata, so the database ends up having tables 10 times smaller, but indexes stay the same. Well the idea came to me through Ghassan Salem from RWP and &#8230; <a href="http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2011/06/30/how-to-gain-space-on-indexes-of-hcc-partitioned-tables/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocpdba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6521867&amp;post=936&amp;subd=ocpdba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dealing with corruption in an IOT: the practical hands-on approach</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 11:56:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luis Moreno Campos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you find yourself with a corrupted block in an Oracle database you should go immediately to My Oracle Support (MOS) and read note 1088018.1. There you will find the appropriate MOS notes you should read if your problem is &#8230; <a href="http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2011/06/16/dealing-with-corruption-in-an-iot-the-practical-hands-on-approach/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocpdba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6521867&amp;post=931&amp;subd=ocpdba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stuff I&#8217;ve learned this week</title>
		<link>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2011/06/03/stuff-ive-learned-this-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 22:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luis Moreno Campos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Been trapped in a war-like situation since sunday night so here&#8217;s some of the stuff I&#8217;ve learned on this mad week: - the freaking em11g agent only installs in silent mode, and you have to edit a response file before &#8230; <a href="http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2011/06/03/stuff-ive-learned-this-week/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocpdba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6521867&amp;post=930&amp;subd=ocpdba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Recover HCC partitioned tables to non-Exadata storage &#8211; The Parallel Quest</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 20:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luis Moreno Campos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you read my previous post, you might have noticed that I was using a non-partitioned table, of a somewhat small size. The basic stuff is there, but if you&#8217;re managing bigger tables you might want to do it using &#8230; <a href="http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2011/05/13/recover-hcc-p2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocpdba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6521867&amp;post=922&amp;subd=ocpdba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Recover HCC Compressed Tables to non Exadata storage</title>
		<link>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2011/05/06/recover-hcc-compressed-tables-to-non-exadata-storage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 12:03:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luis Moreno Campos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is this for me? (always helpful for busy people) As many of you know by now, Exadata comes with an exclusive way to compress information, based on columns, and with a different storage unit called &#8220;Compression Unit&#8221;, that responds by &#8230; <a href="http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2011/05/06/recover-hcc-compressed-tables-to-non-exadata-storage/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocpdba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6521867&amp;post=917&amp;subd=ocpdba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s All About Architecture: the Data Warehouse building blocks powered by OLAP and Data Mining</title>
		<link>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2011/04/21/olap-dm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 13:48:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luis Moreno Campos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s All About Architecture&#8230; First of all if you&#8217;re working for years in the bi/dw arena or if you just got here you must read this paper: http://bit.ly/pervasive-bi. This paper will give you an idea of the &#8220;Reference Architecture&#8221; and &#8230; <a href="http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2011/04/21/olap-dm/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocpdba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6521867&amp;post=878&amp;subd=ocpdba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book of the Month &#8211; &#8220;Oracle GoldenGate 11g Implementer&#8217;s Guide&#8221; by John P. Jeffries</title>
		<link>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2011/04/03/bom-ogg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2011 22:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luis Moreno Campos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My relationship with Oracle Golden Gate is first emotional and then professional. My Oracle Corporation boot camp was in Ireland in early January 2010 after Oracle had acquired Golden Gate, and so most of my boot camp mates were from &#8230; <a href="http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2011/04/03/bom-ogg/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocpdba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6521867&amp;post=900&amp;subd=ocpdba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book of the Month: &#8220;Achieving Extreme Performance with Oracle Exadata&#8221; by Robert Stackowiak et all</title>
		<link>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2011/03/10/book-of-the-month-achieving-extreme-performance-with-oracle-exadata-by-robert-stackowiak-et-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 11:33:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luis Moreno Campos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has just landed in my hands, the first book written about Exadata ! Finally all the technology I&#8217;ve been working in the past 16 months has gone mainstream in terms of knowledge sharing. Writers Rick Greenwald, Robert Stackowiak, Maqsood &#8230; <a href="http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2011/03/10/book-of-the-month-achieving-extreme-performance-with-oracle-exadata-by-robert-stackowiak-et-all/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocpdba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6521867&amp;post=889&amp;subd=ocpdba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Page: My Presos</title>
		<link>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/new-page-my-presos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luis Moreno Campos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is  a new section called &#8220;My Presos&#8221; with all the slides I show in the events where I speak. Direct Link: http://bit.ly/lmc-presos &#160; Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: LinkedIn<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocpdba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6521867&amp;post=875&amp;subd=ocpdba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Myth breaker: Patching Exadata</title>
		<link>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2011/01/15/myth-break-exadata-patching/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 13:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luis Moreno Campos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Exadata]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Exadata Storage Software has become a powerfull extension of the Oracle Database, not only leveraging performance but also offloading tasks from the database server, off to the storage server. The span of this relationship is more visible when you have &#8230; <a href="http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2011/01/15/myth-break-exadata-patching/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocpdba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6521867&amp;post=862&amp;subd=ocpdba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Hash Partition Algorithm Works</title>
		<link>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2010/11/09/how-hash-partition-algorithm-works/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 22:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luis Moreno Campos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re one of those people that wait for the movie in order to comment that book you were too lazy to read, this post is for you. You&#8217;ll either see the following clip or keep reading. Enjoy. How Hash &#8230; <a href="http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2010/11/09/how-hash-partition-algorithm-works/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocpdba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6521867&amp;post=837&amp;subd=ocpdba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Downloading 11.2.0.2 from MoS? Don&#8217;t get caught!</title>
		<link>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2010/11/07/downloading-11-2-0-2-from-mos-dont-get-caught/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Nov 2010 16:24:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luis Moreno Campos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Simple post, just to warn the souls that haven&#8217;t downloaded 11.2.0.2 patchset yet: 1 &#8211; You don&#8217;t need the base version 11.2.0.1 anymore, this patchset is selfsufficient 2 &#8211; There are 7 files in a total 4.7 Gigs but you &#8230; <a href="http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2010/11/07/downloading-11-2-0-2-from-mos-dont-get-caught/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocpdba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6521867&amp;post=834&amp;subd=ocpdba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Exadata Storage Foundation</title>
		<link>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2010/10/26/exadata-storage-foundation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 23:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luis Moreno Campos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Exadata is software. It&#8217;s the secret sauce in the Database Machine solution, but actually aside from all the fancy stuff that it does (HCC, Storage Indexes, or Smart Scan), it has to present the physical disks back to the ASM &#8230; <a href="http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2010/10/26/exadata-storage-foundation/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocpdba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6521867&amp;post=825&amp;subd=ocpdba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Exalogic is out there!</title>
		<link>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2010/09/20/exalogic-is-out-there/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 02:21:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luis Moreno Campos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The all brand new Middleware Machine, also called Exalogic is a box filled with 30 dual-sixcore servers, with a total of 360 cores of horse power for Java aps. One file for patching the whole hardware and software, 40TB SAS &#8230; <a href="http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2010/09/20/exalogic-is-out-there/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocpdba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6521867&amp;post=816&amp;subd=ocpdba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Another Exadata bites the Portuguese dust!</title>
		<link>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2010/09/06/another-exadata-bites-the-portuguese-dust/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luis Moreno Campos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first half-rack Database Machine has just arrived in Portugal, it is setted up and running. Not yet on production though, but it took a record breaking day and a half to hand the system over to the customer cluster &#8230; <a href="http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2010/09/06/another-exadata-bites-the-portuguese-dust/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocpdba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6521867&amp;post=810&amp;subd=ocpdba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Physical Database Limits of 11.2</title>
		<link>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2010/06/07/new-physical-database-limits-of-11-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 09:53:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luis Moreno Campos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been a while since I&#8217;ve gone through the documentation part of Oracle Database Server that talks about limits! I think the last one was when the rowid format changed from Oracle7 to Oracle8. This post is not just &#8230; <a href="http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2010/06/07/new-physical-database-limits-of-11-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocpdba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6521867&amp;post=807&amp;subd=ocpdba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Slice and Dice bigfile tablespaces with RMAN</title>
		<link>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2010/05/31/slice-and-dice-bigfile-tablespaces-with-rman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 13:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luis Moreno Campos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in 2003 when Oracle 10g was released and bigfile tablespaces were first introduced, not many databases were in the terabyte or petabyte weight-class. The very feature of having your data warehouse downsized in the number of files through the &#8230; <a href="http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2010/05/31/slice-and-dice-bigfile-tablespaces-with-rman/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocpdba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6521867&amp;post=804&amp;subd=ocpdba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Enterprise Manager 11g Installation</title>
		<link>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2010/05/28/enterprise-manager-11g-installation/</link>
		<comments>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2010/05/28/enterprise-manager-11g-installation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 15:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luis Moreno Campos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[enterprise manager (EM)]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[installation]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/?p=784</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[People who care to surf around the posts on this blog have found out that step-by-steps, howtos, and installation guides are not the point because you have a bunch of those in Oracle official docs and tons of other blogs. &#8230; <a href="http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2010/05/28/enterprise-manager-11g-installation/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocpdba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6521867&amp;post=784&amp;subd=ocpdba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Best Practices for Statistics Gathering on Oracle 11g</title>
		<link>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2010/05/13/best-practices-for-statistics-gathering-on-oracle-11g/</link>
		<comments>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2010/05/13/best-practices-for-statistics-gathering-on-oracle-11g/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 13:43:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luis Moreno Campos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[database tuning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dba basic stuff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oracle 11g]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[partitioning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[data warehouse]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[statistics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some people look at Statistics Gathering as taking vitamins: nice to have. And it&#8217;s wrong. You shouldn&#8217;t base your tuning strategy on dynamic sampling alone, or luck. Some people freak out because once they generated stats for some system and &#8230; <a href="http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2010/05/13/best-practices-for-statistics-gathering-on-oracle-11g/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocpdba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6521867&amp;post=775&amp;subd=ocpdba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Exadata Storage Server Hybrid Columnar Compression (EHCC)</title>
		<link>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2010/05/09/exadata-storage-server-hybrid-columnar-compression-ehcc/</link>
		<comments>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2010/05/09/exadata-storage-server-hybrid-columnar-compression-ehcc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 23:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luis Moreno Campos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[compression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exadata]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[columnar compression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ehcc]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I first wrote the article I&#8217;m about to publish, there were several developments until last 27th April when I presented it in public at the Extreme Performance Day in Lisbon, and internally at the &#8220;Exadata Top Guns&#8221; event in &#8230; <a href="http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2010/05/09/exadata-storage-server-hybrid-columnar-compression-ehcc/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocpdba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6521867&amp;post=766&amp;subd=ocpdba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why is Exadata so fast?</title>
		<link>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2010/04/14/why-is-exadata-so-fast/</link>
		<comments>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2010/04/14/why-is-exadata-so-fast/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luis Moreno Campos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Exadata]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nerdness]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/?p=761</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At the moment I&#8217;m writing this post from Berlin, where Oracle is hosting a huge Exadata event. The message that passed out there to the market is that DB Machine is a very fast machine, but the way things should &#8230; <a href="http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2010/04/14/why-is-exadata-so-fast/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocpdba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6521867&amp;post=761&amp;subd=ocpdba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Exploring the revolutionary DBFS</title>
		<link>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2010/04/05/exploring-the-revolutionary-dbfs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 11:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luis Moreno Campos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[compression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exadata]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oracle 11g]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[storage]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally a blog post worth sharing with you all about DBFS. This is from Ronny Egners and it&#8217;s very good and comprehensive article about his experiences with DBFS. It even has an URL for the Oracle official documentation. Enjoy: Ronny &#8230; <a href="http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2010/04/05/exploring-the-revolutionary-dbfs/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocpdba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6521867&amp;post=759&amp;subd=ocpdba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle VM Server Installation Video</title>
		<link>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2010/03/29/oracle-vm-server-installation-video/</link>
		<comments>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2010/03/29/oracle-vm-server-installation-video/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 23:36:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luis Moreno Campos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[oracle vm]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[oracle vm server]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The image is not very good but you can have an idea of how easy is to virtualize with Oracle VM Server http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_W5_5wJy80 Filed under: oracle vm Tagged: LinkedIn, oracle vm server<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocpdba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6521867&amp;post=755&amp;subd=ocpdba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Disable Firewall in Oracle VM Templates saves you a lot of trouble</title>
		<link>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2010/03/17/disable-firewall-in-oracle-vm-templates-saves-you-a-lot-of-trouble/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luis Moreno Campos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[linux]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oracle vm]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/?p=751</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re addicted to use Oracle VM templates like myself and sometimes have networking problems there is one &#8220;must-do&#8221; task that will save you a lot of trouble: disabling the Linux firewall. I experienced sshd, EM, scp, you-name-it-kind-of-networking-tool problems until &#8230; <a href="http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2010/03/17/disable-firewall-in-oracle-vm-templates-saves-you-a-lot-of-trouble/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocpdba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6521867&amp;post=751&amp;subd=ocpdba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ACFS and Oracle VM: A silent revolution in storage management</title>
		<link>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2010/03/12/acfs-and-oracle-vm-a-silent-revolution-in-storage-management/</link>
		<comments>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2010/03/12/acfs-and-oracle-vm-a-silent-revolution-in-storage-management/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luis Moreno Campos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[acfs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oracle vm]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[virtualization]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/?p=749</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[(11gR2 only) Slice and dice physical machines into small, much manageable, much performant pieces, is only one side behind virtualization. The other is: storage virtualization. In Oracle VM you can either add a virtual disk (dedicated to that VM) or &#8230; <a href="http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2010/03/12/acfs-and-oracle-vm-a-silent-revolution-in-storage-management/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocpdba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6521867&amp;post=749&amp;subd=ocpdba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Create a Shared Virtual Disk on Oracle VM 2.2</title>
		<link>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2010/03/11/create-a-shared-virtual-disk-on-oracle-vm-2-2/</link>
		<comments>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2010/03/11/create-a-shared-virtual-disk-on-oracle-vm-2-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luis Moreno Campos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[oracle vm]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[shared disk]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/?p=747</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is an awsome video that explains how two virtual machines can share a disk on Oracle VM Server 2.2 Filed under: oracle vm Tagged: LinkedIn, oracle vm, shared disk<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocpdba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6521867&amp;post=747&amp;subd=ocpdba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Always log your RMAN interactions</title>
		<link>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2010/02/26/always-log-your-rman-interactions/</link>
		<comments>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2010/02/26/always-log-your-rman-interactions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luis Moreno Campos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you&#8217;re not working with a RMAN catalogue, and you want to keep all your RMAN output, just use the parameter &#8220;log&#8221; in the command line: $ rman target / log=/tmp/logs/rman_backup.log Easy. LMC. Filed under: backup and recovery<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocpdba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6521867&amp;post=741&amp;subd=ocpdba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Exadata DB Machine Performance tests, specs and snaps</title>
		<link>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2010/02/05/exadata-db-machine-performance-tests-and-specs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luis Moreno Campos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Exadata]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here in Portugal, the European country with more Sun Oracle Exadata v2 DB Machines per square-mile, there&#8217;s an Oracle customer that  loaded it&#8217;s data inside the box and without doing any optimizations what-so-ever, reached the amazing value of 25 times &#8230; <a href="http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2010/02/05/exadata-db-machine-performance-tests-and-specs/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocpdba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6521867&amp;post=708&amp;subd=ocpdba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>First Portuguese Oracle Nerd to Unpack an Oracle-Sun Exadata v2</title>
		<link>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2010/01/04/first-portuguese-oracle-nerd-to-unpack-an-oracle-sun-exadata-v2/</link>
		<comments>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2010/01/04/first-portuguese-oracle-nerd-to-unpack-an-oracle-sun-exadata-v2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luis Moreno Campos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nerdness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DB Machine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exadata]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LinkedIn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oracle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sun]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last 23rd December two Exadata v2 DB Machines arrived at our little Portugal! I&#8217;ve unpacked both, and at the first one, fellows at the data center were nice enough to put up with 3 &#8220;crazy&#8221; dudes from Oracle that were &#8230; <a href="http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2010/01/04/first-portuguese-oracle-nerd-to-unpack-an-oracle-sun-exadata-v2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocpdba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6521867&amp;post=703&amp;subd=ocpdba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Difference between Online and Offline compression</title>
		<link>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/the-difference-between-online-and-offline-compression/</link>
		<comments>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/the-difference-between-online-and-offline-compression/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luis Moreno Campos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[compression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advanced compression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[compress for all operations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LinkedIn]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine you have two tables each one with 250,000 records and they just had been created with CTAS. One was created using regular compression and the other with Advanced Compression. Let’s check out many 8k data blocks each one has: &#8230; <a href="http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/the-difference-between-online-and-offline-compression/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocpdba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6521867&amp;post=693&amp;subd=ocpdba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to transport a tablespace from 9i to 11g</title>
		<link>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/how-to-transport-a-tablespace-from-9i-to-11g/</link>
		<comments>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/how-to-transport-a-tablespace-from-9i-to-11g/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:24:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luis Moreno Campos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[data load and unload]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ILM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[import export data pump]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[imp]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[transportable tablespace]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/?p=688</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been a while since I&#8217;ve written here. Main reason: Oracle Corp aquired me! Anyway, today on the menu we have a very interesting thing: &#8220;How to transport a tablespace from 9i to 11g&#8221;. It&#8217;s easy. No science here. &#8230; <a href="http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/how-to-transport-a-tablespace-from-9i-to-11g/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocpdba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6521867&amp;post=688&amp;subd=ocpdba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Each one it’s own</title>
		<link>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/each-one-its-own/</link>
		<comments>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/each-one-its-own/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luis Moreno Campos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t been able to write here so often simply because I was hired by Oracle. I&#8217;ve started 1st November and I&#8217;m very happy to wear the hat I&#8217;ve been wearing since ever, now with the corporate feeling. I&#8217;ll get &#8230; <a href="http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/each-one-its-own/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocpdba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6521867&amp;post=686&amp;subd=ocpdba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some SQL*Loader tips about masks</title>
		<link>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/some-sqlloader-tips-about-masks/</link>
		<comments>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/some-sqlloader-tips-about-masks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luis Moreno Campos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[data load and unload]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LinkedIn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sql*loader]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tip]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/?p=677</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always been a fan of SQL*Loader, if not for nothing else, for the fact that today along with SQL*Plus, this is one of the few products that still has the &#8220;SQL*&#8221; prefix, so famous in the late 80&#8242;s, and &#8230; <a href="http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/some-sqlloader-tips-about-masks/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocpdba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6521867&amp;post=677&amp;subd=ocpdba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Best way to deal with ARCHIVED LOGs</title>
		<link>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/best-way-to-deal-with-archived-logs/</link>
		<comments>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/best-way-to-deal-with-archived-logs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:07:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luis Moreno Campos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[backup and recovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dba basic stuff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[archive log]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[delete input]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LinkedIn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rman]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/?p=671</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This article will try to address a common misunderstanding of the role archived logs and its backups play in the recovery process. Some notions first: 1) If you backup your archived logs to disk regularly you should delete them after &#8230; <a href="http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/best-way-to-deal-with-archived-logs/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocpdba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6521867&amp;post=671&amp;subd=ocpdba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Simple and Handy script for RAC: who&#8217;s opened the DB and when</title>
		<link>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/simple-and-handy-script-for-rac-whos-opened-the-db-and-when/</link>
		<comments>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/simple-and-handy-script-for-rac-whos-opened-the-db-and-when/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:50:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luis Moreno Campos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[clusterware]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dba basic stuff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[instance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LinkedIn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[open]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rac]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/?p=668</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When nodes on a clustered database fail to start, or just crash alone, it&#8217;s important to find patterns of behaviour. If you have a more than 2-node RAC cluster and need to figure out when did each instance started and &#8230; <a href="http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/simple-and-handy-script-for-rac-whos-opened-the-db-and-when/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocpdba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6521867&amp;post=668&amp;subd=ocpdba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reversing the effect of a TRUNCATE TABLE in Oracle 11gR2</title>
		<link>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/reversing-the-effect-of-a-truncate-table-in-oracle-11gr2/</link>
		<comments>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/reversing-the-effect-of-a-truncate-table-in-oracle-11gr2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luis Moreno Campos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[flashback]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oracle 11g]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/?p=666</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I&#8217;ll share with you a way to reverse the effect of a TRUNCATE TABLE without any complex recovery procedures. I&#8217;m assuming the schema used has DBA privileges, just to avoid switching from user to user during the example. During &#8230; <a href="http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/reversing-the-effect-of-a-truncate-table-in-oracle-11gr2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocpdba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6521867&amp;post=666&amp;subd=ocpdba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Automatic Partition Management for Oracle 10g</title>
		<link>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/automatic-partition-management-for-oracle-10g/</link>
		<comments>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/automatic-partition-management-for-oracle-10g/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luis Moreno Campos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[partitioning]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/?p=654</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you have a moving window partitioning scheme then you should know that in Oracle 11g you now have a brand new way of creating new partitions. Oracle 11g creates the partitions in an automatic fashion, so that when the &#8230; <a href="http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/automatic-partition-management-for-oracle-10g/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocpdba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6521867&amp;post=654&amp;subd=ocpdba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Deferred Segment Creation: segmentless tables (11gR2 new feature) and dumb questions</title>
		<link>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/deferred-segment-creation-segmentless-tables-11gr2-new-feature-and-dumb-questions/</link>
		<comments>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/deferred-segment-creation-segmentless-tables-11gr2-new-feature-and-dumb-questions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luis Moreno Campos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[storage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deallocate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LinkedIn]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[shrink]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/?p=648</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Much have been said about segmentless tables but most people have been asking me how does that work, as if that would be a complicated feature. From 11g Release 2 all tables created without rows, do not create any segments &#8230; <a href="http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/deferred-segment-creation-segmentless-tables-11gr2-new-feature-and-dumb-questions/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocpdba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6521867&amp;post=648&amp;subd=ocpdba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Advanced Corruption Resolution with RMAN</title>
		<link>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/advanced-corruption-resolution-with-rman/</link>
		<comments>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/advanced-corruption-resolution-with-rman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:13:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luis Moreno Campos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[backup and recovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oracle 11g]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[recover]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[restore]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Oracle Database 11g came with automatic recovering procedures, I was somewhat suspicious, but since all the exercises in the Oracle University labs went well in my classes, my perception of  these procedures was somewhat neutral. The case I present &#8230; <a href="http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/advanced-corruption-resolution-with-rman/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocpdba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6521867&amp;post=643&amp;subd=ocpdba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Everything you wanted to know about INTERVAL datatype but was too guru to ask</title>
		<link>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-interval-datatype-but-was-too-guru-to-ask/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:21:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luis Moreno Campos</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[interval datatype]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I&#8217;m into reusing information (long description for &#8220;lazy&#8221;) I will give you the definition of the INTERVAL datatype that comes in the manuals: &#8220;An interval is defined as the difference between two dates and times. Intervals are expressed in &#8230; <a href="http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-interval-datatype-but-was-too-guru-to-ask/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocpdba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6521867&amp;post=639&amp;subd=ocpdba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pure DBA Science &#8211; some good postings</title>
		<link>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/pure-dba-science-some-good-postings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luis Moreno Campos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The internet blogging community on Oracle Database Administration tend to reffer each others posts, which I find very healthy and worthwhile. When a post is good you should read it and spread the word about it. Here&#8217;s my tribute and &#8230; <a href="http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/pure-dba-science-some-good-postings/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocpdba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6521867&amp;post=628&amp;subd=ocpdba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How many times have I told not to create objects in the SYS schema?</title>
		<link>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/how-many-times-have-i-told-not-to-create-objects-in-the-sys-schema/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:23:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luis Moreno Campos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[dba basic stuff]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[SQL&#62; show user USER is &#8220;SYS&#8221; SQL&#62; create table xyz (n number); Table created. SQL&#62; drop table xyz; Table dropped. SQL&#62; flashback table xyz to before drop; flashback table xyz to before drop * ERROR at line 1: ORA-38305: object &#8230; <a href="http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/how-many-times-have-i-told-not-to-create-objects-in-the-sys-schema/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocpdba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6521867&amp;post=625&amp;subd=ocpdba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Duplicating a database has never been so easy! (11gR2 new feature)</title>
		<link>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/duplicating-a-database-has-never-been-so-easy-11gr2-new-feature/</link>
		<comments>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/duplicating-a-database-has-never-been-so-easy-11gr2-new-feature/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luis Moreno Campos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[backup and recovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oracle 11g]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the DUPLICATE RMAN command was introduced back in 10g, one of the things that was freaking people out was that although you were able to make it from a backup, you had to have connection established to the main &#8230; <a href="http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/duplicating-a-database-has-never-been-so-easy-11gr2-new-feature/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocpdba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6521867&amp;post=604&amp;subd=ocpdba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Conditional function LNNVL: the bullsh*t detector</title>
		<link>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/conditional-function-lnnvl-the-bullsht-detector/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luis Moreno Campos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Oracle conditional function LNNVL is one of those urban-myths everyone likes. It has been around for years &#8211; it&#8217;s birth date is actually another mystery, some say Oracle 7.3 others 7.2, but rumor has it that it might had &#8230; <a href="http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/conditional-function-lnnvl-the-bullsht-detector/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocpdba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6521867&amp;post=594&amp;subd=ocpdba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Putting ACFS to work: how to create a mount point in the new Oracle File System</title>
		<link>http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/putting-acfs-to-work-how-to-create-a-mount-point-in-the-new-oracle-file-system/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luis Moreno Campos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is a translation of another one that I&#8217;ve originally wrote in portuguese. I&#8217;ve decided to share with the international Oracle community through my weblog. ACFS stands for ASM Cluster File System. ACFS is a new file system created &#8230; <a href="http://ocpdba.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/putting-acfs-to-work-how-to-create-a-mount-point-in-the-new-oracle-file-system/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ocpdba.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6521867&amp;post=579&amp;subd=ocpdba&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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