Category: Database

XA transactions and Oracle RAC…

…don’t work in 11.2.0. Perhaps more specifically, I (and everyone I have found blogging about it, as well as on oracle forums) can’t get it to work. The documentation states the following… “Tightly coupled XA transactions no longer require the…

Nessus scan of Oracle listener

I thought this was interesting. I found the following in our listener.log file after our security team ran a nessus scan… listener.log:TNS-12502: TNS:listener received no CONNECT_DATA from client listener.log:27-JUN-2012 09:30:52 * (CONNECT_DATA=(COMMAND=VERSION)) * version * 1189 listener.log:27-JUN-2012 09:30:52 * (CONNECT_DATA=(SID=orcl)(CID=(PROGRAM=nessus)(HOST=172.26.253.75)(USER=)))…

ATG primary key data types

Not much today, this is just a place holder as we evaluate conflict resolution schemes for ATG and Golden Gate. Out of the box, it uses an application based sequence generator (DAS_ID_GENERATOR table). You can (and are encouraged to) prepend…

ltrace kills ocssd.bin which reboots node

The occsd.bin process is the core process which belongs to the Cluster Synchronization Service. This service is responsible for node membership decisions, so when it no longer exists, the server is rebooted. I was attempting to better understand the library…

ApexSQL

We are currently migrating a given database environment from an external provider on SQL Server 2005 to Oracle 11.2.0.3. While we could use GoldenGate, it is a one time migration for which we don’t need the “big iron” (or cost).…