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11gR2 – SysAsm vs SysDba
SYSASM role was introduced in 11gR1 and was designed to administer ASM instances. In 11gR1 , if you connected with SYSDBA role , you used to get a warning which was only recorded in alert log (Refer to my earlier post here). But things have changed in 11gR2. While trying to [Read More]
ORA-27146 Errors while starting up Database
Short post on a issue faced by me, while starting up a cloned database SQL> startup nomount ORA-24323: value not allowed ORA-27146: post/wait initialization failed This database environment was cloned and was being started for first time after cloning. Running hcve [Read More]
Don’t blindly implement Blog suggestions on your Production Servers
Don’t blindly implement Blog suggestions on your Production Servers. This post is prompted by a recent issue where in DBA had modified racgvip script based on suggestion on one of blog (won’t name it). Any such suggestions or similar to these which involve [Read More]
Oracle Patch Set update (PSU 2) released for 10.2.0.4 and 11.1.0.7
Oracle has recently released Oracle Patch Set update (PSU 2) along with CPU October 2009. As informed earlier , PSU are released quarterly along with CPU patches. If you are running 10.2.0.4 RAC database, you need to apply following patches 1) Apply Patch 8833280 [Read More]
Sqlplus connection on AIX taking too long
Recently we faced a performance issue, where in sqlplus connection from application server A (AIX 5.3) to Database server DB (different physical server,10gR2 on AIX 5.3) was taking nearly 1-2 minutes. We did some quick check’s to narrow down the problematic area.i.e [Read More]
Link:11gR2 RAC installation steps on OEL4
If you are looking for steps for 11gR2 RAC installation, you can refer to this article by Rajeev Ramdas at Dbastreet.com. Article lists down steps for installing 11gR2 RAC on 64 bit Oracle Enterprise Linux 4 (OEL4) using ASM for storage. As Raw devices are no longer [Read More]
