Introduction

Early in my career, when I was first introduced to Unix, my mentor at the time recommended that I use a text editor called emacs, but also learn how to use vi as well. I personally like both editors, but I prefer emacs for coding. Over the decades, I’ve continued to use emacs; [...]

Although my main interest is in the venerable Oracle database as database administrator and as a programmer over the past 17 years or so, at the same time I have been following along with the progress of the various open-source databases as well with quite a keen interest. The two that I’ve [...]

I recently installed Oracle Grid Control 11g on my linux workstation. Below are the steps that I went through to get it working.  Prior to installing Control, I had already installed Grid Infrastructure 11.2.0.2 and Oracle Database 11.2.0.2 and created a database to be used as the Grid Control repository.
Step 1) Download the Grid Control software:
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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 [...]