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Introduction to Oracle Exadata V2

This post came out of the difficulty to find the information needed to prepare myself for a week long Exadata proof of concept I have scheduled next month at the Oracle Technology Center  in Menlo Park. The topics listed below should confirm your suspicion that there is significant learning and study required to understand Exadata. [...]

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Basic UNIX Commands for the DBA

A collection of commonly used UNIX commands by the Oracle Database Administrator. File Manipulation Action Command Example list file contents cat cat myfile append to a file cat cat myfile >>newfile combine two files cat cat myfile1 myfile2 >newfile create a file cat cat >newfile copy a file cp cp myfile newfile create a file [...]

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