In this post, I’m installing the Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.4) software on Oracle Linux 6.4, along with optional instructions on how to apply the latest Patch Set Update (PSU) to your new Oracle home. First and foremost, before you start, make sure your Linux server meets the minimum hardware requirements: 1GB of RAM (plus
I hit the following problem with a 9.2.0.8 database running on Windows 2003 this morning (info pulled from the alert log). The database had failed to restart after a client’s cold backup process 🙄 ALTER DATABASE MOUNT Wed Jan 15 22:32:08 2014 ORA-09341: scumnt: unable to mount database OSD-04400: unable to acquire internal semaphore for
In this example, I’ve already installed the Oracle Database 12c software on one of my Linux 6.4 machines. Using the DBCA tool (in advanced mode), I’m going to create a new container database named “cdb” and at the same time create a pluggable database named “pdb”. The idea behind this new “pluggable databases” feature in
In this post, I’m installing the Oracle Database 12c Release 1 (12.1.0.1.0) software on Oracle Linux 6.4. Only the software is being installed at this point, in preparation for a single database installation which I’ll create later on using the DBCA tool. First and foremost, before you start, make sure your Linux server meets the minimum
In this example, I’ve already installed the Oracle Database 11gR2 software (11.2.0.4 in this example) on one of my Linux 6.4 machines, and I’m going to create a new database instance simply called ’emrep’ (as it’s going to be used for my EM12c database repository) using the DBCA tool. The data files will be stored under
In this post, I’m installing the Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.3) software on Oracle Linux 6.4, along with optional instructions on how to apply the latest Patch Set Update (PSU) to your new Oracle home. First and foremost, before you start, make sure your Linux server meets the minimum hardware requirements: 1GB of RAM (plus
Having had to run through this process again recently, I thought I’d tidy up my notes on all of this, and put together a proper how-to post 🙂 When SQL Server 2005 was released, the added functionality of Database Mail came with it, giving us the ability to use SMTP to send email from SQL Server