Oracle

This is not intended as a complete book review, but a warm recommendation of a book I’ve found very useful the last couple of months. That is, highly recommended if you are working with RAC or going to start with a RAC project soon. I have been working on and off with RAC for several years, but I don’t take any new RAC project lightly. Starting in November I was involved with a proof of concept for a large public customer. Before and during this project I have relied a lot on this book: Pro Oracle Database 11g RAC on Linux written by Steve Shaw and Martin Bach . ...

This is more a note to myself… Installing Oracle on Linux has become much easier with a package that prepares the OS before installation of the Oracle Server software. In previous versions the rpm package used to be called oracle-validated, but for 11gR2 on OEL6 it is called oracle-rdbms-server-11gR2-preinstall. Probably the easiest way to install the Oracle database on Linux is to install Oracle Enterprise Linux 6 and before the installation of Oracle do two things: ...