07. 10. 2015.

Moving Oracle running process to background without interruption on AIX

Imagine that you are going home, but before you go, you start some script (bash, Oracle SQL*Plus, or PL/SQL procedure) for which you didn’t know or didn’t think in advance that job you start to execute can take a long time to finish, and can’t be interrupted. In this blog I’m assuming you are running […]

07. 06. 2015.

How to speed up copying files over the network

Assuming that ftp service is disabled for security reasons, the most admins are using scp to copy files to/from the target server. As many users have already noticed, the file transfer is slow (at least slower then NFS share or Samba for example). Reason for this is in the letter “s” in the scp command which […]