An Oracle Blog
We were recently migrating one of our non-production databases to Oracle ASM. Previously, we used the Linux files system EXT4. We wanted the flexibility of Oracle ASM as well some of the IO performance gains. At a high level, we…
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The Quest conference, Blueprint 4D 2023 was at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas, Texas this year. This was my first time attending a conference that I had to travel to since before Covid. This was also my first Quest conference…
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The Silly Little Oracle Benchmark (SLOB) is an I/O testing toolkit for the Oracle database. It is provided by Kevin Closson. I used this recently to test the I/O differences between Oracle ASM and Linux EXT4 disks. Background I’m using…
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I was working on a project to install the Oracle Grid Infrastructure (19c). This would be on an existing Oracle Linux database server. The database on this server used the Linux EXT4 file system. We wanted to install Oracle Grid…
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Recently I was preparing a brand new installation of Oracle Grid Infrastructure 19c for a standalone server (aka Oracle Restart). The installation was on an existing server using Oracle Linux 7.7. In past Oracle Grid Infrastructure installations I have used…
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I recently ran into a situation where I needed to move some Oracle database datafiles. This is on Oracle Linux. There are several mount points (EXT4) but one was much lower on free space than the rest. While another one…
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