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Configuring the windows host file to correctly use the loopback adapter for Oracle product installations

Published on November 11, 2012 By Ignacio de la Torre
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This procedure is required when installing Oracle products such at the Oracle Database or Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition on a host machine that uses DHCP.  Follow the steps to configure a loopback adapterand then: Open the host file under c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc using notepad Identify your computer’s host name by right clicking on My Computer, selecting […]

Verifying the pre-requisites for an Oracle Database Install on SUSE Linux

Published on August 10, 2012 By Ignacio de la Torre
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This is a list of the parameters and configuration settings you should first check when installing the oracle database into a personal/sandbox environments, I made a note of them to allow me to verify them quickly without going through all the documentation for every install. This assumes you will not use ASM on your new […]

Configuring a new loopback adapter in windows

Published on May 13, 2012 By Ignacio de la Torre
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Start > Control Pannel> Add  Hardware Click next on the Welcome screen  When ask if you have connected your hardware, specify yes  In the next dialog select Add new hardware device  On the following screen select Network Adapters  Select Microsoft > Microsoft Loopback Adapter from the list  Select next in the following screen to install […]

Linux Environment variables to simplify your life – OBIEE 11g System Administrator Edition

Published on April 19, 2011 By Ignacio de la Torre
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As I spend a lot of time switching between a very well defined set of directories in the Oracle Middleware home for OBIEE 11g I have been developing a list of variables that I like to use in my scripts and configure in the servers that I most commonly work with. They have proven to […]

Configure your database to host your Informatica Repository (Oracle 11g)

Published on September 16, 2010 By Ignacio de la Torre
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The Informatica repository is designed to reside in a database system, for my local test environment I will be hosting it in an Oracle 11g database. Here are two design principles that need to be taken into consideration when setting up the database that will host your repository: Creating a dedicated tablespace for your repository […]

Drop [oracle] database (and clean after yourself)

Published on June 30, 2010 By Ignacio de la Torre
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Clean database and control files after dropping database