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		<title>UKOUG RAC &amp; HA SIG June 2009</title>
		<link>http://jarneil.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/ukoug-rac-ha-sig-june-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:03:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a funny start to my day, my kids woke up in the middle of night, and at 03:00am my fire alarm went off, which gave me a quite a fright, though thankfully nothing was actually on fire. So I was pretty knackered as I got into London on a beautifully sunny day for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jarneil.wordpress.com&blog=1749502&post=986&subd=jarneil&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fixing up ASM Disk Header Corruption</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure this sort of stuff would never happen to you, you would be far too smart for that.
I was involved in a migration project, that was moving data from one set of drives to another, for space reasons just the drives were being replaced the actual chassis was remaining in place. So this involved [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jarneil.wordpress.com&blog=1749502&post=931&subd=jarneil&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Improving an Index Range Scan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 14:34:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently had the opportunity to perform a little bit of tuning work, and I thought I would share this here. I think tuning is one of the more satisfying things about being a dba, where you can actually see that you have a made a concrete change for the better.
The query in question was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jarneil.wordpress.com&blog=1749502&post=812&subd=jarneil&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UKOUG 2009 Annual Conference Call for Papers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The call for papers for the 2009 UKOUG Annual Conference Server Technology &#38; E-Business has gone out. 
The conference will take place Between 30th November &#8211; 2nd December, and as usual takes place at the ICC Birmingham.
The deadline for submissions is 5th June, so get your papers in while you can. Question is, will I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jarneil.wordpress.com&blog=1749502&post=869&subd=jarneil&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mistake in April2009 CPU Release Instructions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought as soon as I saw this set of instructions that something was a bit fishy, a bit unusual:

The instructions are pretty clear and unambiguous: Apply the April2009 CPU to the CRS Home. I&#8217;d never seen this recommended on a clusterware patch before. This is actually really the only place in the release instructions [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jarneil.wordpress.com&blog=1749502&post=843&subd=jarneil&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle Buys Sun</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:52:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jarneil.wordpress.com/?p=836</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well I had been advocating this for some time, but it looks like the deal has been done.
I started my career as a Solaris System Administrator and I cut my dba teeth working with Oracle running on Solaris. I am a big fan of Sun and love the design of (most) of their servers. 
Will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jarneil.wordpress.com&blog=1749502&post=836&subd=jarneil&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mac OS X on a Dell Mini 9</title>
		<link>http://jarneil.wordpress.com/2009/04/14/mac-os-x-on-a-dell-mini-9/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:14:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I quite luckily had the good fortune to win a Dell Mini 9, in a rackspace event raffle. It&#8217;s perhaps a little on the small side (8.9&#8243;) for prolonged work, but quick note taking and casual web browsing are quite bearable. 
The netbook came with an 16GB SSD drive and 1GB of RAM, but sadly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jarneil.wordpress.com&blog=1749502&post=822&subd=jarneil&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Mastering Oracle PL/SQL</title>
		<link>http://jarneil.wordpress.com/2009/03/24/book-review-mastering-oracle-plsql/</link>
		<comments>http://jarneil.wordpress.com/2009/03/24/book-review-mastering-oracle-plsql/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have never been a developer and I would never attempt to sell myself on the basis of my coding abilities. I come from an SA/storage background, which may put me in a minority amongst DBAs but is sure useful when you are talking about luns and ASM and I think I fulfill the criteria [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jarneil.wordpress.com&blog=1749502&post=787&subd=jarneil&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Adventures in Dataguard</title>
		<link>http://jarneil.wordpress.com/2009/03/16/adventures-in-dataguard/</link>
		<comments>http://jarneil.wordpress.com/2009/03/16/adventures-in-dataguard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a presentation on Dataguard I have given a number of times. In particular I go through several issues we have encountered while running a Physical Standby in production.

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		<title>ASM, Pillar Data, and IBM XIV</title>
		<link>http://jarneil.wordpress.com/2009/03/11/asm-pillar-data-and-ibm-xiv/</link>
		<comments>http://jarneil.wordpress.com/2009/03/11/asm-pillar-data-and-ibm-xiv/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[ASM]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There I was at a VMWARE event happily minding my own business getting up to speed on the major IT trend that is virtulisation. This was not really Oracle related, and ASM was very, very far from my mind.
However it seems I&#8217;m never very far away from ASM, as the event was run in conjunction [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jarneil.wordpress.com&blog=1749502&post=635&subd=jarneil&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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