Author Archives: George Valentin Voina

Dell XPS 8700 Memory upgrade

By | March 31, 2016

As I mentioned in a previous post I started looking into upgrading my Dell XPS 8700 see https://blog.voina.org/?p=325. One of the possibilities I mentioned there was a memory upgrade from the 16GB of the original configuration to the maximum of 32GB. By doubling the memory size I can run a 4th instance of my Fedora… Read More »

RedHat/Fedora Linux NIC bonding

By | February 9, 2017

Red Hat Enterprise Linux allows administrators to bind multiple network interfaces together into a single channel using the bonding kernel module and a special network interface called a channel bonding interface. Channel bonding enables two or more network interfaces to act as one, simultaneously increasing the bandwidth and providing redundancy. The behaviour of the bonded… Read More »

Oracle: Resolve blocking processes

By | February 8, 2017

Sometimes an oracle query goes nuts and blocks the DB. To find the blocked processes started by user MYUSER execute: SELECT s.inst_id, s.sid, s.serial#, p.spid, s.username, s.program FROM gv$session s JOIN gv$process p ON p.addr = s.paddr AND p.inst_id = s.inst_id where s.username like ‘MYUSER’; To kill the blocking process: ALTER SYSTEM KILL SESSION ‘sid,serial#’

DB2: Inline LOBS

By | February 8, 2017

LOBS is the DB2 way of dealing with big data. In db2 you can have a table that contains a column defined as LOB where one can dump large binary data (images, compressed text files, video or audio). The problem is the way this LOBS are stored by DB2. By default they are stored “offline”… Read More »

DB2: (SQL Error: -30090) caused by XA access to a nickname to a federated database

By | February 8, 2017

In a setup having an enterprise application depending on a database instance where some tables are defined as nicknames to tables from a federated database, it can happen to get this very cryptic DB2 error. [12/10/15 18:06:54:895 IST] 00000073 SqlExceptionH Z org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.spi.SqlExceptionHelper logExceptions SQL Error: -4229, SQLState: null [12/10/15 18:06:54:903 IST] 00000073 SqlExceptionH Z org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.spi.SqlExceptionHelper… Read More »