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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

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

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]

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Physical Corruption: ORA-1578 PART-2

03 May, 2008 | Author: Saurabh Sood | 2 Comments »

Recovering from physical corruption: 1. Using BMR when RMAN backups are available When small set of blocks are corrupted, Block Media Recovery (BMR) can be used as a recovery technique. The advantage of BMR is that it can be performed without taking the datafiles offline [Read More]

Physical Corruption: ORA-1578 -Part 1

27 Apr, 2008 | Author: Saurabh Sood | 1 Comment »

ORA-1578 is indication of physical block corruption. Oracle computes an internal checksum before fetching the block from disk, when it is about to fetch the block it reads the block header and compare the checksum stored in it. If the checksum mismatches we get ora-1578 [Read More]

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