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Thursday September 9th 2010

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Renaming Diskgroup containing Voting Disk and OCR

Recently encountered a issue where we had to rename a diskgroup for 11.2 RAC containing OCR and Voting Disk.At this [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 [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]

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Generating Datapump Export Dump with Dumpfile name Containing Current Date and Time

Few days back I got a request from development team to generate hourly export dumps of few schemas. Following were the requirements: 1. Dumpfile name should contain current date and timestamp information. 2. The generated dumpfile should be moved to a specific location. 3. [Read More]

Cloning database..Just do some Post checks !!

Well I will be covering some points which I believe should be part of post checklist for any cloned database environment. This might not be complete list as it contains point which I have encountered or heard of. 1) Change database Name and Database Id You should try to [Read More]

You Don’t need SysDBA privilege to run Awrrpt..

Well I tried to Sensationalize this post by using such a heading Though I just wanted to point out that Awrrpt script can be run without sysdba privilege too. Actually if you open awrrpti.sql script , it contains following line Rem NOTES Rem Run as SYSDBA. Generally this [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]

Scheduling Job through Cron??

In case you came across this link searching for Cron syntax, then you can refer to following link http://www.adminschoice.com/docs/crontab.htm Other’s can continue reading the article …. This was a problem which I faced yesterday. We had a mview refresh which [Read More]

Input is too long (> 2499 characters) – line ignored

There are times when you observe above mentioned error while creating view and mview from mview definition taken from Toad or indexfile option. vi editor comes in handy to resolve this issue. Copy the code in Text file and while in escape mode enter following command [Read More]

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Lalit had this to say

Nice article. keep it up buddy. Read the post

Renaming Diskgroup containing Voting Disk/OCR | AskDba.org Weblog had this to say

had done similar activity on 11.2 Single instance having database files (see this post) using renamedg. We tried using Read the post

csk had this to say

In my case the adding Disk to an existing Disk Group failed as the disk was not visible from other RAC node.Now the Read the post

Saurabh Sood had this to say

Hi CSK, In this case, the information is already written into disk header, and to reuse the disk the only option i s Read the post

csk had this to say

Yeah. I have opened SR with Oracle. Once I get solution , I will provide it here. Read the post