I am glad to see that there are high level professionals around willing to share their experience and knowledge.
Just wonder if your presentations are available somewhere publicly?

Best regards,
Jurijs

Companies can stop advertising on the net (what finances net-2), but they cannot stop their traditional business.

If this could direct MySQL in direction of not focusing 95% on net-2 that would be a good thing! Who uses MySQL for ERP systems? Practically nobody because for this type of applications what is required is *raw power in UPDATES* what ‘tricks’ like replication and query cache does not help at all (no ERP user will ever execute a SELECT - they don’t have time for that!)!

Only the future can prove me wrong!

“For all intents, the same functionality is there”

“There is very little that either of their servers can do that MySQL can’t do right now. ”

In a multi-vendor shop like Pythian, there are loads of Oracle people around to debate this with. I’m not sure that most companies need Oracle for most of their systems, but I can’t let such bald statements go without saying I think you’re wrong. MySQL gets better all the time and, for a free database is mighty impressive. Which means that there’s really no need to talk it up beyond it’s current capabilities.

I’m sure there will come a time when the demand for Oracle skills fades and dies and maybe I’ll work on something else, but that has nothing to do with what software I admire or want to work with.

1/ install software
2/ create database and listener (-emconfiguration NONE)
3/ setup emca

Parts one and two are working like clockwork. Part three–not so much.

So, first I need to remove sysman, or emca crashes out. Is this bad or good? I dunno…found some code that does this.

Then unlocked DBSNMP and set password (also not documented) since I saw errors relating to this in early attempts.

Knocked together a script by a little guesswork and mostly piecing together things from the net:
emca -config dbcontrol db -repos create -silent -SID oracle1 -PORT 1521 -ORACLE_HOME /u01/app/oracle -ORACLE_HOSTNAME prd-db-1 -DBSNMP_PWD dbsnmp -SYSMAN_PWD sysman -SYS_PWD ora123

emca likes this well enough, and completes..

INFO: Repository successfully created

however…
emdb.nohup:
The agentTZRegion value in /u01/app/oracle/ltxe-
nabb-prd-db-1_nabbprdexp1/sysman/config/emd.properties is not in agreement with
what agent thinks it should be.Please verify your environment to make sure that
TZ setting has not changed since the last start of the agent.
emdctl.trc:
2008-10-10 15:36:18 Thread-1 WARN http: snmehl_connect: connect failed to (prd-db-1:3938): Connection refused (error = 146)
emoms.log:
2008-10-10 14:31:21,203 [Orion Launcher] ERROR app.ContextInitializer contextIni
tialized.271 - Integration Class not found: oracle.sysman.ocs.mntr.target.OcsCal
GrpIntegration
emoms.trc:
2008-10-10 14:31:21,203 [Orion Launcher] ERROR app.ContextInitializer contextIni
tialized.271 - Integration Class not found: oracle.sysman.ocs.mntr.target.OcsCal
GrpIntegration

After a good chunk of my life is wasted, get this:
SEVERE: Error starting Database Control

These are all issues I’m finding in hundreds of posts and everyone seems to be guessing what the cause is. I’ve seen some references to TZ issues and have three observations on that:
1/ TZ is set correctly in oracle’s environment and Australia/Victoria is supposedly a supported value
2/ Oracle thinks this timezone is GMT+11, which is wrong. It’s +10 except during EDT. Larry needs to check his homework more carefully.
3/ WTF? If the TZ doesn’t work out, fall back to a default. Since when is this a critical error? What boneheads code this stuff?

The really infuriating bit is that with the interactive dbca option at initial install time, runInstaller sets up EM just fine, but I cannot find this code path!

One more observation: having EM log its problems in eight(?) different locations does not strike me as best practice.

Yes I am really pissed off with this!

Chuck

SET @foo = SYSDATE();
INSERT INTO t1 VALUES (@foo);