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Star Trek lives on: FedXVIIICon

May 8th, 2009 by TheBonsai

Lieber zu spät als nie: Mein persönlicher Eindruck von der FedXVIIICon

Da ich das erste mal auf der FedCon war, lohnt sich definitiv ein kleiner Blogeintrag drüber.

Für alle die es nicht wissen, FedCon ist eine Star Trek Convention die jährlich üblicherweise in Bonn stattfindet. Neben Star Trek sind auch aktuelle Serien (z.B. “Battlestar Galactica”) und natürlich Star Wars vertreten. Die FedCon ist mit das größte Science Fiction Fan Event in Europa.

Für alle die nicht wissen was Star Trek ist: Ihr habt den falschen Beitrag angeklickt!

Die FedXVIIICon ging vom 1. bis 3. Mai, das waren knapp 3 Tage Spass, Staunen, Zuhören und Romulanisches Ale…!
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Category: Science Fiction, deutsch | 2 Comments »

Finally: BIND9 and Oracle RDBMS are compatible!

April 24th, 2009 by TheBonsai

This morning I had a really good start. Get the first cup of coffee, activate the NX session, open the IRC client, go to Freenode’s #oracle channel, and saw a question:

super noob question , how do i query my oracle database online, do i need to setup bind9 and allow incoming connections so it can be accessed

I just wanted to share that :-)

Have a good day!

Category: Linux, Oracle, Work | 1 Comment »

Five hours, ORACLE, dbca, ASM and a customized SQL*Plus prompt…

January 31st, 2009 by TheBonsai

Yesterday was a bad day. I wanted to completely rebuild a database with a corrupt data dictionary. My plan:

  • Backup/exports
  • Shutdown DB, remove userspace files
  • Cleanup files inside ASM
  • DBCA to make new one (no scripts available)

You see, nothing unusual. So far so good, everything fine except the last step. The scripts I had from the first installation didn’t run through, so I just wanted to click something together. But DBCA spit out:

DBCA could not startup the ASM instance configured on this node. To proceed with database creation using ASM you need the aSM instance to be up and running. Do you want to recreate the ASM instance on this node?

Er.. what? ASM instance is up and running and some minutes before the old database ran fine with it! So what? Metalink, Google: Environment variables, Listener configuration etc etc etc. Nothing applied. The only thing I really knew 100% was that the ASM setup was rocksolid.

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Category: Linux, Oracle, english | 2 Comments »