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ORA-7445 core dump [kokscold()+849] from EM 12c
The first problem reported by my EM 12c is an ORA-7445 error. After checking the alert log following is the exact message: Sun Feb 19 12:09:41 2012 Errors in file /u01/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/pkldb/pkldb/trace/pkldb_j035_14712.trc (incident=52961): ORA-07445: exception [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 (12.1.0.1.0). The Complete Upgrade process will be carried out under 3 different stages: 1. Patch existing 11g OMS to get the 12c upgrade console. 2. Deploy and [Read More]
Optimizer Choosing Nested-Loop Joins Instead of Hash-Joins
In one of my databases, one application query suddenly started to pick Nested-Loop joins instead of Hash-Joins and took almost 6 hours to complete which gets completed in less than 10 secs with Hash-Joins. The same query in another similar database with same configuration [Read More]
Oracle Database Appliance Introduced
Oracle has introduced it new product: ODA (Oracle Database Appliance) I was not able to join Oracle President Mark Hurd’s webcast where he supposed to announce a new Oracle product, now viewing this webcast HERE Kerry Osborne has shared information about this product, [Read More]
In-Place Upgrade 11gR2 RAC : 11.2.0.1 To 11.2.0.2
Sharing a post from my friend “Carthik” on 11gR2 RAC in-place upgrade. Overview ======== Starting oracle 11gR2 the Oracle database and Clusterware upgrades are done via the “Out of place upgrade”. And is the easier way to perform your upgrade. [Read More]
BUG:10082277: Database Connections failing with ORA-4031
A short write-up on a problem faced in few newly upgraded databases to 11.2.0.1 : I faced this issue in couple of databases which were recently upgraded to 11gR2, the problem is so severe that even connecting using “/ as sysdba” is not working and erroring out [Read More]
BUG: Creating 11gR2 RAC Using VMware On Toshiba Laptop
I was setting up 11gR2 RAC grid infra on my new Toshiba L745 series laptop on OEL5.4, the installation was going very smoothly but suddenly the VMWare machines crashed while performing remote operations on second node with following message: <span [Read More]
Performance Management Guide on AIX
While trying to find the amount of physical memory used by oracle process on AIX, I got reference of a document from Metalink: Performance Management Guide It tell us about which process is using how much memory and how to interpret the output of commands like: vmstat, [Read More]
ORA-01722 with Full Table Scan
My application developers approached me with an issue which is very unique to me. They were complaining about a query which was failing with ORA-01722 “invalid number” after an upgrade to 11.1.0.7 from 10.2.0.4. The syntax of the query is like: select max(a) [Read More]
Effect Of Multiple SHMMAX Settings
Last week I saw a warning message at database startup time saying: WARNING: EINVAL creating segment of size 0x000000000f0020xx fix shm parameters in /etc/system or equivalent It is an Oracle 10204 database running on Solaris. Searching MOS for exact meaning for this [Read More]
11gR2: CVU needs SCAN Listeners’ Manual Startup During Grid-Infrastructure Configuration
During configuration phase of Grid Infrastructure for cluster, CVU failed while performing post-checks. Following message is displaced in the Installation Log file: <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: [Read More]
How To Discover Disk Name When LUN Number is Known (OEL5)
I am creating 11gR2 RAC setup for one of my client. Following Oracle documentation for storage, I opted for Oracle ASM and asked storage team for new physical devices. Storage admin thus provided me with a set of LUNs instead of actual physical device names like [Read More]
Life Is Changed Now!!!!!
Hi All, This time I am sharing an experience from my personal life, I got Married on 2nd Dec 2009 I was on holidays since last month and just joined back. In this time I visited beautiful Island of Koh-Samui (Thailand). At this time finding hard to concentrate on work [Read More]
Get Upgrading: Steps To Upgrade To 11gR2
As 11gR2 is out for Linux, I decided to upgrade one of my existing 10.2.0.3 database to 11.2.0.1 to get the look and feel of 11gR2. Direct upgrade to 11gR2 is supported from 9.2.0.8 or higher, 10.1.0.5 or higher, 10.2.0.2 or higher and 11.1.0.6 or higher. If you have a [Read More]
OCFS2 Configuration Issue
While setting up ocfs2 for OCR and Voting disk storage with following commad: # ocfs2console After clicking on ==>cluster ==> configure nodes, I got a pop-up saying: <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: [Read More]
