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Michigan OakTable – Illinois Visitors?

Posted by Jeremy ⋅ July 29, 2010

Quite a few people have already plugged this event (Charles Hooper, Jonathan Lewis, Tanel Poder, Doug Burns, Christian Antognini, Randolf Geist, etc) – but I want to chime in anyway. It’s so closeby and the price goes up in two days! The Thursday and Friday before OpenWorld (September 16-17), some kind folks in Michigan are … Continue reading →

ASM Mirroring – No Hot Spare Disk

Posted by Jeremy ⋅ July 15, 2010 ⋅ 3 Comments

Some time ago, we installed Oracle on a Sun box with 48 local 1TB disks (spread across six controllers). I explained to the storage and system teams that we would use ASM as the volume manager – and as such, it would take care of mirroring. One storage admin asked me which disk was the … Continue reading →