The action of moving an Oracle Primavera P6 database from one server to another should be fairly simple. Changing the authentication type on that database from a virtual LDAP server to native Active Directory should also be simple. Doing both at the same time? Not so much. And even though I generally try to keep … Read more
Recently we’ve been moving quite a few servers and databases into our new datacenter, so I’ve been having to learn – more quickly than usual – about the often obscure differences between older and newer versions of various software including Solaris and Oracle Database. A change to an Oracle RAC system caused the most interesting … Read more
I was testing an old Excel application that I had moved from one server to another and kept getting this error when running it on the new server: The error ORA-01013 (“user requested cancel of current operation”) is commonly a timeout issue. What could be causing a query to timeout on one server, but not … Read more