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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 too (14k+ hits) Timur Akhmadeev highlighted this content plagiarism by posting links of various articles copied by Guenadi along with original link. You [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 files. Saurabh had earlier written articles on ora-1578. http://askdba.org/weblog/2008/04/physical-corruption-ora-1578-part-1/ [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 duplicate in 10g, you will get following errors RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR [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 old and many of you would have already seen it. But for others and also for my future reference I am mentioning it here [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 metrics provided by oracle we also use host based and sql user defined metrics which allows you to monitor almost anything . Coming back to the main issue, [Read More]
Downloading Oracle Software directly to Server
This article is based on Pythian’s aricle DOWNLOADING FROM OTN DIRECTLY TO YOUR DATABASE SERVER. Article tell’s about using lynx (text based web browser available on linux) to generate the cookies file which can be then used with wget to download software. But [Read More]
