Planning for Birmingham….

Or should I say ‘Brum’?
Well, I’ve just been notified that one of my abstract submissions, “Introduction to Locks and Enqueues”, has been accepted by the UKOUG for the 2008 Annual Conference, coming up in December.  I’m really looking forward to it.  This will be my 4th year attending.  It’s also the first year the conference [...]

So, there’s two posts, guess I’m on the blogging bandwagon…

As the subject says, there’s my first two real posts, so, I guess I’m blogging.  I won’t guarantee how active I’ll be here, or how much of what I write will be Oracle, as opposed to other stuff, but, for what it’s worth, here I am.

11g is more deadlock sensitive than 10g?

I ran into a situation over the weekend, where an application and schema, which were stable under 10.2.0.3, started hitting ORA-00060 deadlocks in 11.1.0.6, in spite of the fact that no application code changes had occurred.  It seems that 11g was more sensitive to deadlocks in this situation than 10gR2 was.
The situation developed this way.  [...]

Bit of a stumper….

Well, I finally decided I have something noteworthy to blog about.  This was a bit of a stumper, that we ran into the other day….I did finally get to the bottom of it, and I thought it worth a mention, here.

We have a three node RAC running 10.2.0.3 on DL-585s.

This is a reasonably busy system, [...]

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