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Friday September 3rd 2010

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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]

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]

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How To Discover Disk Name When LUN Number is Known (OEL5)

I am creating 11gR2 RAC setup for one of my client. Following Oracle documentation for storage, I opted for Oracle ASM and asked storage team for new physical devices. Storage admin thus provided me with a set of LUNs instead of actual physical device names like [Read More]

Failed dependencies error: lib* needed by unixODBC-devel-2.2.11-7.1.i386

While trying to install 11gR1 on Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL5), runInstaller failed for unixODBC* packages. To solve the issue , I started following OTN article http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/smiley-11gr1-install.html When trying to install RPM from CD3, [Read More]

Use awk/sed in vi

Thought of sharing some useful info which can help you to do your work faster in vi.You can use awk/sed scripts in vi using following command in vi :%!scriptname Here the scriptname file should have execute privilges for user. I used this to create a useful script which I [Read More]

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Ron Gordon had this to say

I had a simillar ORA-15020: discovered duplicate ASM disk issue, our sysadmin determined that there was a BAD Read the post

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