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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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Recreating Database Link

I was trying to recreate database links as part of database migration activity. This involved mixture of 8i,9i and 10g database. In case of 8i/9i it is very easy to find the old password which was used to create database link as passwords for database links are stored in [Read More]

Database Security: Transparent Data Encryption

Data in the database is secured by using authentication, authorization and auditing mechanism, but the information stored in the datafiles can be read using any hex-editor tools or other OS level utilities, which is causing threat to sensitive  data. To overcome this [Read More]

Changes To 10g OCA Certification

Changes To 10g OCA Certification

People planning to appear for  10g OCA Exam will be startled to find that they need to pass additional exam to get the certificate. Starting from December 1, 2008, in addition to the existing exam (Oracle Database 10g: Administration I (1Z0-042)), candidates are also [Read More]

How To Change/Restore User Password in 11G

Oracle 11g introduces Case-sensitive passwords for database authentication. Along with this if you wish to change the password (temporarily) and reset it back to old , you will find that password field in dba_users is empty. Prior to 11g we could use following technique to [Read More]

Tom Kyte Seminar in Bangalore, India

Tom Kyte Seminar in Bangalore, India

All India Oracle user Group (AIOUG) has arranged for Seminar by Tom Kyte on 18th December 2008. Venue- The Good Shepherd Auditorium Residency Road- Museum Road Junction Opp. St. Joseph’s P.U. College Bangalore – 560 025 SEMINAR TOPICS Storage Techniques [Read More]

Full Database Export Failing With ORA-00980

While trying to do a full export for 10.2.0.3 database, we were getting following errors About to export the entire database ... . exporting tablespace definitions . exporting profiles . exporting user definitions . exporting roles . exporting resource costs . exporting [Read More]

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Recent Comments

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