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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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ORA-01426 After Upgrade to 10g

Oracle seems to have a tendency to make small changes to database code which impacts application in a big way. Sad part is, these changes are not always documented properly. One of these cases is what I encountered. A simple PL/SQL code errors out as below: Oracle Database [Read More]

ORA-00600 [12333]

ORA-00600 with is an error that I have encountered on multiple occasions. This post is to shed some light on what this error is all about. To start with let us try to understand when does oracle report ora-00600 error. An ora-00600 error is raised in the exception handler [Read More]

CPU (Critical Patch Update) and N-apply

OVERVIEW Oracle has been regularly releasing security fixes for all it’s products to take care of any security vulnerability. Since 2005 Oracle formulated a policy that it will release CPU patch ( bundle of security fixes) every quarter (January, April, July, and [Read More]

Understanding of Oracle 11g Automatic Diagnostic Repository – Part 1

Understanding of Oracle 11g Automatic Diagnostic Repository – Part 1

INTRODUCTION In an endeavour to move towards self managed database and provide better support solutions, Oracle 11g introduces another new feature in 11g called the Automatic Diagnostic Repository or ADR. As the name implies ADR is a automatically managed file based [Read More]

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