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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On

• Sat Feb 14 00:31:30 CET 2009 -or-
• Fri Feb 13 23:31:30 UTC 2009 -or-
• Epoch 1234567890

please don’t forget to celebrate UNIX!

Additionally, I hope this event helps me to remember the valentine day at least this year

I’ll post an update if Feb 13th has come, to wake you up…

If you send postcards (address in Imprint, also by email), I’ll publish them here!

UPDATE-01:

Found a link. You can even buy T-shirts and stuff. eek, 1234567890 Merchandising…

UPDATE-02:

Do not forget 1234567890!

UPDATE-03:

We survived that day. Good. See you @2000000000!

While analyzing the BETA2 and RC1 versions of Bash version 4, I wrote a short technical overview article:

http://bash-hackers.org/wiki/doku.php/bash4 http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/bash4

Enjoy, comments and edits welcome.