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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 April, 2009

SRVCTL fails to start RAC resources:CRS-0215

After upgrading RAC database to 10204 and applying CRS bundle patch-1 for 10204 crs home, srvctl command fails to startup resources on rac nodes. While starting up RAC resources using SRVCTL following error occurs in CRSD.log file: $ srvctl start instance -d rac -i rac2 [Read More]

ORA-1078 ORA-1565 Errors while starting database with SPFILE on ASM

I was getting following error’s while starting a database using spfile on ASM. Actually this was a cloned RAC environment. SQL> create SPFILE='+ASM_GROUP/PORTALDB/spfileportaldb.ora' from pfile; File created. SQL> shut immediate; ORA-01109: database not open [Read More]

Grid Control Fails to Start

The link for Grid Control was not Working and it failed to show the login page. In this situation  checked the following things: 1. The repository database was up and running 2. The listener was up. 3. OMS server was down. Tried to stratup the OMS server using opmnctl [Read More]

Connections to DataBase Hang Including “/ as sysdba”

Recently I faced one issue where all the connection to database hung and it was also not possible to login to database using “/ as sysdba”. To get access of sqlplus I used the following syntax: $ sqlplus -prelim / as sysdba With “prelim” option we [Read More]

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