April 2014

This is the fifth article in a series called Operationally Scalable Practices. The first article gives an introduction and the second article contains a general overview. In short, this series suggests a comprehensive and cogent blueprint to best position organizations and DBAs for growth.

We’ve looked in some depth at the process of defining a standard platform with an eye toward Oracle database use cases. Before moving on, it would be worthwhile to briefly touch on clustering.

I regularly read threads on the oracle-l mailing list, and occasionally feel very tempted to reply to one. Just recently I saw one that I liked a lot. It is specifically about using an Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) as a Disaster Recovery (DR) solution for an Exadata system. The Exadata configuration was not specified, I assume it was a smaller (eighth rack/quarter rack) configuration.

There were lots of arguments pro and against that Exadata->ODA architecture, and that leads to a broader question: how important is DR for your organisation? This blog post is about my personal experience, and probably strongly influenced by where I live in work (Europe), yours might be different.

About the original discussion

Thank you for all those who attended the session, and braved it up to 10 PM. Much much appreciated.

Download the slides here, and scripts I used for the demos here.

As always, your feedback will be highly appreciated.

If you are using a Windows desktop, you need MobaXterm in your life! Version 7.1 has recently been released…

I know you think you can’t live without Putty, Cygwin and/or Xming, but you really can. Give MobaXterm a go and I would be extremely surprised if you ever go back to that rag-tag bunch of apps…

Cheers

Tim…

PS. Includes “Updated OpenSSL library to 1.0.1g (for “Heartbleed Bug” correction)”