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Friday July 30th 2010

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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]

‘Metric execution timed out’ error reported by Grid

We use 10.2 Enterprise Manager Grid control  to monitor our oracle database environments . Apart from the normal [Read More]

Downloading Oracle Software directly to Server

Downloading Oracle Software directly to Server

This article is based on Pythian’s aricle DOWNLOADING FROM OTN DIRECTLY TO YOUR DATABASE SERVER. Article [Read More]

11gR2 Silent Install errors with [SEVERE] – Invalid My Oracle Support credentials

While performing  11gR2 RAC Database Software installation with response file (silent mode), I got this error. - [Read More]

opmnctl start fails when ORA_NLS10 parameter is set

I got into this issue , where in while starting Grid Control components, opmnctl command failed with following errors [Read More]

Archive for June, 2008

We are here to Stay !!

I had actually planned to write this post last week. It’s our Third web address till date with first being http://askoracledba.blogspot.com and second one being http://askoracledba.wordpress.com . Now we are on http://askdba.org/weblog/ and hope to continue this. We [Read More]

DBConsole Issue on RAC -Part II

Continuing with DBConsole issue, we were able to get the cluvfy return success for the nodes. Basically Oracle suggested us that when we use ssh we should not get any banner. E.g $ ssh PROD02 date Fri Jun 13 02:00:41 IST 2008 But in our case it was displaying a banner which [Read More]

DBConsole Issue on RAC -Part I

Currently I am working on issue where DBConsole is not starting on our 2 Node RAC system. When I try to start, I get following errors $ emctl status dbconsole TZ set to US/Pacific Exception in getting local host java.net.UnknownHostException: PROD01: PROD01 at [Read More]

Easy and Free X-Windowing Setup with Cygwin

Today I had to carry out Oracle client Installation on one of the server. Normally I use vncviewer to connect to one of my Linux machine (having vncserver setup) and then get the display on to that machine. But my colleague suggested me about one more approach, which I [Read More]

Adding new ASM disk to RAC database fails

Many times i came across a common problem in RAC databases where trying to add an asm disk is not possible due to errors like ORA-15075 “disk(s) are not visible cluster-wide” ORA-15020 “discovered duplicate ASM disk “DISK1″ and ORA-15054 [Read More]

Transparent Application Failover – TAF

Transparent Application Failover (TAF) is a client-side feature that allows for clients to reconnect to surviving databases in the event of a failure of a database instance. Note that this is not used for purpose of load balancing or for Connect Time Failover.   TAF [Read More]

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