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Effect Of Multiple SHMMAX Settings

Last week I saw a warning message at database startup time saying: WARNING: EINVAL creating segment of size [Read More]

Finding blogging tough? Just copy and do find and replace

Finding blogging tough? Just copy and do find and replace

Well this is motto followed by Guenadi Jilevski for his blog http://gjilevski.wordpress.com and he seems to get result [Read More]

Physical Corruption: ORA-1578 part 3

Recently we encountered a block corruption issue in 10g database on Linux x86 64 bit and using ASM for storing database [Read More]

Cloning RAC Database with RMAN fails with error

Steps for cloning a RAC database  with RMAN is similar to cloning a single instance database. But while using rman [Read More]

DBMS_SCHEDULER jobs not running?

I came across this posting on OTN which lists down things to check in case your scheduler job is not . This is quite [Read More]

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Archive for June, 2008

New ASM Background Processes in 11G

Few hours back I installed Oracle Database 11g(Though still DB is yet to be created), so I started playing with the ASM instance. First thing I did was to check ASM alert.log. I used ADRCI (11g) to see it adrci> show incident ADR Home = [Read More]

11.1.0.6 ASM installation on Solaris fails -II

Some time back, I had written about CSS service not starting in my post 11.1.0.6 ASM installation on Solaris fails -I After doing some research, I came across Metalink Document Note:397238.1 – How to Convert init.cssd as a SMF service for Solaris 10 This document [Read More]

ORA- 4031 – A Case Study

Today I will be taking up one ORA-4031 issue we faced on one of our client database. Please note that SQL statements mentioned below have been changed and does not reveal any confidential information. Our client was facing ORA-4031 on a 9.2 database.This was a new Database [Read More]

Can ASM DiskGroup Be Renamed?

This was actually a question on Oracle forum which I had replied to. Basically the Poster, wanted to know if he could rename the ASM Diskgroup name by renaming/editing ASM Disk header. He had also mentioned that he had heard about this being done by Oracle for its few [Read More]

kfed in 11g

While carrying out Oracle Database 11g install, I noticed that kfed is automatically created. This is in contrast to 10.2 where you had to create it using “make” command. In case you are looking for 10.2 method, you can find it in my previous post ORA-15063 [Read More]

11.1.0.6 ASM installation on Solaris fails -I

Looks like that there is no easy way for me to install/configure Oracle components. And every install/configuration leads me to some or the other problems. Anyways I was trying to install Oracle Database 11g on a Solaris 10 but the CSS does not seems to come up. While [Read More]

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