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Friday July 30th 2010

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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]

‘Performance’ Archives

11gR2: Monitoring Real Time SQL Plan Execution from Oracle Enterprise Manager

11gR2: Monitoring Real Time SQL Plan Execution from Oracle Enterprise Manager

Ever since 11gR2 has been released, it has created a lot of buzz in Oracle Blogosphere with various posts on 11g Release 2 (11gR2 ) New Features primarily ASM New features. I would like to introduce you all to a feature which has been incorporated in 11gR2 Oracle [Read More]

dbms_stats.copy_table_stats does not alter low/high value

I was working on a performance issue arising due to missing table stats on a new partition for large Partitioned table.This was a 10.2.0.4 database on IBM AIX 5L. So as to resolve the issue , I used dbms_stats.copy_table_stats to copy the stats to new parition from the [Read More]

Connections to DataBase Hang Including “/ as sysdba”

Recently I faced one issue where all the connection to database hung and it was also not possible to login to database using “/ as sysdba”. To get access of sqlplus I used the following syntax: $ sqlplus -prelim / as sysdba With “prelim” option we [Read More]

Index Access best approach?? Not Always…

There is a common misconception that Index access is the best access method for query execution. This approach leads to people concentrate on removing Full Table Scans (FTS) from the Query execution plan. I recently worked on a performance tuning issue where I found such [Read More]

11g New Feature: Database Replay

Database Replay: In critical production systems, before making changes to the environment( Hardware or software related), lots of testing is required in test systems to know the effect of those changes and this usually takes lots of time to test for the stability and [Read More]

Diagnostics For Database Hang

Many times Oracle DBA’s are in a situation when the database is hung and does not seem to be responding. In some scenarios, state is such that you cannot even connect to the sqlplus session. Majority people restart the database (Sometimes I wonder if this is due to [Read More]

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