Socket Based Licensing for Standard Edition

I ran across this article today on Oracle’s new strategy for Standard Edition and Standard Edition One licensing. As a consultant, there are times when I have to tackle licensing questions, though I...

Patching from 10.2.0.1 to 10.2.0.3

I’m not a big fan of ignoring errors with OUI (we all have our horror stories), and so when I ran across this one I was loathe to ignore or cancel: Error in invoking target 'all_no_orcl ipc_g' of...