September 2012 archive

Oracle Management Server is Down

Well this is one of those frustrating situations that make you ask why it cannot be simplified. I am trying to start my Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control environment and I get the following: Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c Release 12.1.0.1.0 Copyright (c) 1996, 2012 Oracle Corporation.  All rights reserved. Starting WebTier… WebTier Successfully …

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Compression Advisor is Evil Part II

In a previous post, I lamented about how I do not like the Compression Advisor that runs automatically in Oracle 11.2. I do not have this option licensed yet Oracle insists on letting me know which tables would benefit from compression when I cannot legally compress them! In the previous post, I referred to the …

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