Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

This famous quote of George Santayna's came to my mind when I tried to follow the publications on the inevitable cloud, in particular on Oracle's cloud. "Oracle has more cloud applications than any company. And cloud apps are hard work to build."  - refer to Larry Ellison at OpenWold user conference Undoubtedly the ultimate foundation for Oracle cloud is the database Oracle12c - refer to Andy Mendelsohn at OpenWorld As matters now stand, it is time to remember Santayana's dictum and take a look, how the grandmaster of Oracle database consultants, Donald K. Burleson takes up an inconvenient position.

Tricky: docker, oraclelinux, ubuntu and ulimit -Hn

Virtualization is said to bee good for training and development, but  it should be kept out from productive environments. Some people, to whom I belong, meanwhile changed their minds and are convinced, that e.g. docker containers running ubuntu or oraclelinux, breed85/oracle12c or alike will play an increasing role in data virtualization. See also oaktable-world-agenda-2015/ To get experience and clarify certain questions we have created a Docker Project on github. This story here came up with the number of open files in a system (ulimit -Hn), crucial for productive systems. The issue discussion serves best to  understand the impact and the trickyness of the question. For whom it may concern, it is published here.

Docker & oracle-rdbms-server-12cR1-preinstall

There is an extremely annoying  behavior of oracle-rdbms-server-12cR1-preinstall, when you want to use it in conjunction with docker images like breed85 or oraclelinux: this official package of Oracle's blocks every attempt to switch to the user oracle (su - oracle), which one is forced to do, when he wants to install Oracle SW and create Oracle databases in a Docker container. I have written 2 posts in July about that and none of them was correct. After 2 months I was forced to come back in order to accomplish our Dockerproject . Here is, what I have found out.

How to use AWR and ADDM - very short explanation

In the last post about setting up stress tests on Oracle databases I recommended AWR and ADDM to see the results of your tests. These tools are unique gems of programming. For those who are not familiar with them, here is a very short, but hopefully efficient instruction, how to handle it manually.