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Thursday February 9th 2012

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Copying Oracle Scheduler jobs with Arguments

Oracle provides dbms_scheduler.copy_job function to copy oracle scheduler jobs which works great. But problem is that [Read More]

EM12c:Automated discovery of Targets

In this post we will discuss the Automated discovery of Targets in Enterprise Manager Cloud Control(EM 12c). Once you [Read More]

Em12c:Silent Oracle Management agent Installation

This Post would describe how to install Oracle Management Agent 12c in silent mode. We need to download the agent [Read More]

11gR2:Listener Startup Issues

In this blog post I will be discussing listener startup issues faced in 11gR2 RAC. I will be constantly updating this [Read More]

Get Upgrading: Upgrade to Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c

This post describes the steps to upgrade an existing 11g Enterprise Manager Grid Control (11.1.0.1.0) to 12c [Read More]

10.2.0.4 Window’s Patchset overwrites Sqlnet.ora

Not sure, how many of you are aware of this alert. Oracle has published an Alert document NOTE:726418.1 -ALERT: The 10.2.0.4 Windows Patchset Overwrites %ORACLE_HOME%\network\admin\sqlnet.ora

According to it, Patch 6810189 – 10.2.0.4 RDBMS patchset on Microsoft Windows (32-bit) and Microsoft Windows (AMD64 and EM64T) overwrites the %ORACLE_HOME%\network\admin\sqlnet.ora file.

In case you have Downloaded (and installed) the 10.2.0.4 patchset for Windows before 10 July, 2008 , then please download the software again. In case you have not customized the sqlnet.ora file, then no action is needed.