Improve the world, start with yourself.

Today I wanted to open a Metalink SR for a high availability problem (in a RAC + Dataguard environment), and guess what I got.

It seems like theory is still different from practice.

The Oracle Enterprise Linux story of the master himself: Wim Coekaerts

Yesterday I had the uniqe opportunity to attend a Q&A session with Wim Coekaerts, the father of the whole linux story within Oracle. I agree completely with what Freek already posted in his blog (he attended as well). On top of that I want to add some personal thoughts as well.

My experiences with ocrmirror, voting disks and stretched clusters

If you are about to migrate to Oracle RAC, there is an important thing to know about the OCRmirror. As far as I know, this is documented nowhere in any Oracle doc. This post talks about the failover properties of the OCRmirror.

It’s my turn to tell 8 things about myself

I was tagged by Freek so I’ll do what is expected from me.