For those of you who did not attend yesterday’s (November 9th, 2011) NOCOUG (Northern California Oracle User Group - http://nocoug.org) meeting, you missed a good one!  Here’s a quick recap of what I saw interesting to me:
The keynote by Feurstein Coding Therapy for Database Professionals actually had some good food for thought. Some of [...]

My initial goal was simply to create a test ASM environment on my PC running Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 and Oracle Database 11.2.0.2. The first step was easy…download and install Grid Infrastructure 11.2.0.1. This went without a problem until I ran the ASM Configuration Assistant (asmca) and realized that ASM couldn’t see any available [...]

As an implementer of commercial and open source database monitoring tools I find DatabaseRX has capabilities that clearly differentiate it from the rest of the market:

Scalability - hundreds of databases and instances can be added with trivial monitoring overhead, due in part to a highly normalized data model, message based architecture and modular design (loader,analyzer,notifier).
Security [...]

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