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	<description>The thoughts of Jason Arneil</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:58:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>ASM &#38; RDBMS Interactions: Finding the ASM Instance</title>
		<link>http://jarneil.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/asm-rdbms-interactions-finding-the-asm-instance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:58:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought it would be worthwhile having a couple of blog posts on how the RDBMS instance interacts with the ASM instance in various situations.
So I guess we should start at the beginning and ask how the RDBMS actually knows where to contact the ASM instance that it is storing its files in at all? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Busy Weekend Patching</title>
		<link>http://jarneil.wordpress.com/2008/07/21/a-busy-weekend-patching/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:58:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just completed a busy weekend of patching, upgrading a 10.2.0.3 RAC cluster up to 10.2.0.4 and because the downtime was booked anyway, I decided on a quick test cycle of the July CPU and rolled that into the upgrade window.
So far, 10.2.0.4 seems good, with thankfully none of the fun and games that Jeff [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Presenting at the UKOUG Conference</title>
		<link>http://jarneil.wordpress.com/2008/07/20/presenting-at-the-ukoug-conference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:17:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jarneil.wordpress.com/?p=109</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After reading Niall Litchfield&#8217;s insight into the selection process for this years annual UKOUG Conference, I was really quite downbeat and pessimistic about my chances of getting selected. 212 abstracts for just 64 slots seems like poor odds to me! I am sure the number of slots has been reduced, and for a now 5 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Troubleshooting Oracle Performance</title>
		<link>http://jarneil.wordpress.com/2008/07/17/book-review-troubleshooting-oracle-performance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had heard about the publication of Troubleshooting Oracle Performance well in advance and I was eagerly awaiting getting my hands on a copy. I have to say Christian Antognini&#8217;s book has been well worth the wait. I have found this to be a fantastic book and well worth the investment of time and money.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monitoring your Standby with V$RECOVERY_PROGRESS</title>
		<link>http://jarneil.wordpress.com/2008/07/15/monitoring-your-standby-with-vrecovery_progress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jarneil</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I have blogged previously about various ways you can monitor the progress of your physical standby, and I have now come across another way of determining how well your standby is doing at applying the redo logs that are coming it&#8217;s way.
The view V$RECOVERY_PROGRESS also gives you an interesting window into the performance of your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UKOUG DBMS SIG</title>
		<link>http://jarneil.wordpress.com/2008/07/09/ukoug-dbms-sig/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A fantastically well attended SIG, the large room is packed and it&#8217;s at my favourite venue used by UKOUG, just a hop from the houses of parliament.  In fact there were 125 registered attendees, which is roughly double the number of the last UNIX SIG event, held in the midlands. 
However, I would say [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ASMLib Troubleshooting</title>
		<link>http://jarneil.wordpress.com/2008/07/07/asmlib-troubleshooting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve noticed a few forum questions regarding ASM or indeed the OUI not being able to see devices that are managed via ASMLib. This prompted me to &#8220;upgrade&#8221; my knowledge of ASMLib and this blog is just a few extra tools for checking on your ASMLib devices. 
By the way, anyone out there thinking ASMLib [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ASM Disk Discovery</title>
		<link>http://jarneil.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/asm-disk-discovery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a bit of confusion around about how you can present devices for ASM to use. ASM disk discovery is essentially the process by which ASM discovers device names that it is allowed access to. The easiest mechanism to get ASM to see devices is to use the device name as discovered by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rolling Oracle Clusterware Upgrade to 10.2.0.4</title>
		<link>http://jarneil.wordpress.com/2008/06/23/rolling-oracle-clusterware-upgrade-to-10204/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:09:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[patchset]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have previously written about upgrading Oracle Clusterware from version 10.2.0.3 to 11.1.0.6 and how to do this with a rolling upgrade. I recently was involved with an upgrade from 10.2.0.3 to the 10.2.0.4 patchset (linux x86-64) and found the rolling upgrade of the clusterware to be suitably different that it warrants a short blog [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FAL failing to resolve archive gaps</title>
		<link>http://jarneil.wordpress.com/2008/06/06/fal-failing-to-resolve-archive-gaps/</link>
		<comments>http://jarneil.wordpress.com/2008/06/06/fal-failing-to-resolve-archive-gaps/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jarneil</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I had been having problems with FAL failing to resolve archive gaps. The classic error message on my 10.2.0.3 physical standby looked something like this:
FAL[client]: Failed to request gap sequence
 GAP - thread 1 sequence 11402-11403
 DBID 2878580510 branch 589635294
FAL[client]: All defined FAL servers have been attempted.
&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-
Check that the CONTROL_FILE_RECORD_KEEP_TIME initialization
parameter is defined to a [...]]]></description>
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