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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]

‘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 [Read More]

Downloading Oracle Software directly to Server

Downloading Oracle Software directly to Server

This article is based on Pythian’s aricle DOWNLOADING FROM OTN DIRECTLY TO YOUR DATABASE SERVER. Article [Read More]

11gR2 Silent Install errors with [SEVERE] – Invalid My Oracle Support credentials

While performing  11gR2 RAC Database Software installation with response file (silent mode), I got this error. - [Read More]

opmnctl start fails when ORA_NLS10 parameter is set

I got into this issue , where in while starting Grid Control components, opmnctl command failed with following errors [Read More]

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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]

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This is very straight forward and clear.It has become easy when compared to referring the looong docs. Read the post