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April Sims
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April Sims is currently the Database Administrator at Southern Utah University and an Oracle Certified Professional: 8i, 9i, and 10g with a master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Texas at Dallas. Involved as a volunteer with the Independent Oracle Users Group for over 7 years, April is currently a Contributing Editor for the IOUG "SELECT" Journal. April is an annual presenter at Oracle OpenWorld, IOUG COLLABORATE, and numerous regional Oracle-related conferences.
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Oracle's Optimal Flexible Architecture (OFA)


In the following section, you will find a small summary of the OFA standard(s) that were written by Cary Millsap. His article titled Oracle for Open Systems was first published in 1995. It is still used today and is widely adopted on Unix systems by DBAs, no matter the database size. This standard that has been expanded and revised to embrace the newer hardware technologies, and the Automatic Diagnostic Repository found in 11g is in the installation guide of every operating system.

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You can find the original 1995 version at the following location:

http://method-r.com/downloads/doc_details/13-the-ofa-standardoracle-for-open-systems-cary-millsap.

  1. Name the Unix mount points with this pattern /mountpoint+numbered string and start numbering with a left-padded zero to keep the list in numerical order. For example, /u01, /u02, /u03.

  2. The Oracle operating system account that owns ORACLE_HOME with a home directory of /mountpoint/directory/user. For example...

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April Sims is currently the Database Administrator at Southern Utah University and an Oracle Certified Professional: 8i, 9i, and 10g with a master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Texas at Dallas. Involved as a volunteer with the Independent Oracle Users Group for over 7 years, April is currently a Contributing Editor for the IOUG "SELECT" Journal. April is an annual presenter at Oracle OpenWorld, IOUG COLLABORATE, and numerous regional Oracle-related conferences.
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