Chen Shapira: ITIL Processes Taken to Extremes

A DBA from another team went on vacation, and asked me to do few urgent tasks for him while he is gone.
One of the tasks was to refresh test schema from production data. In his email he commented that in his team the…

XML Alert Log « I’m just a simple DBA on a complex production system

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By now everyone discovered the new alert log in 11g, XML format and all. For the 11g challenged, I’ll point at the new official way of viewing your alert log: Say hello to ADRCI and bye bye to vi, less, more, tail and…

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Chen Shapira: Yet Another Nice Myth

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A while ago I explained Nice, what it can do and what it can’t. From this point, whenever someone misunderstood nice, I just pointed at my post.
But yesterday I ran into a misunderstanding that was not covered in the…

Chen Shapira: Story of Sysdate

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It started at 5pm, because all interesting production issues start at 5pm. As the on-call DBA, I recieved an alert about over used undo tablespace on one of our databases. First thing to do in such case is check…

Starting Oracle on Windows

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I never thought that starting up Oracle is difficult. Usually it looks something like this:

sqlplus / as sysdba
startup

Except when Oracle is used on Windows. We have one or two dev servers installed on Windows, but…

Chen Shapira: Newsflash - 100% CPU is worse than you think!

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Found a recent thread on OTN that discusses my recent obsession: http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=650986&start=0&tstart=0
Jonathan Lewis points out a major issue with running your DB at 100%…

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