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Sunday February 5th 2012

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11gR2:Listener Startup Issues

In this blog post I will be discussing listener startup issues faced in 11gR2 RAC. I will be constantly updating this [Read More]

Get Upgrading: Upgrade to Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c

Get Upgrading: Upgrade to Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c

This post describes the steps to upgrade an existing 11g Enterprise Manager Grid Control (11.1.0.1.0) to 12c [Read More]

Cluster SSH tool Utility

Cluster SSH tool Utility

Many times you come across scenario’s when you wish to open multiple ssh windows and execute same commands.e.g [Read More]

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10g

10gR2 Silent Install with 11gr2 CRS fails

I was trying to perform a 10.2 silent install with 11gR2 CRS. While doing pre-checks installer failed with following error Check complete: Failed <<<< Problem: The 'active' version of Oracle Clusterware is not 10g Release 2 (10.2). Recommendation: You must upgrade all nodes of the cluster to Oracle Clusterware 10g Release 2. If you have [Read More]

11g

11gR2:Listener Startup Issues

In this blog post I will be discussing listener startup issues faced in 11gR2 RAC. I will be constantly updating this post based on my experiences or any comments on [Read More]

11g: Multiple failed login attempt can block New Application connections

In Oracle database 11g, a new feature/enhancement has potential of bringing down the application due to multiple sessions hitting database with wrong password. As per [Read More]

Oracle Critical Patch Update January 2012

I guess most of us having My Oracle Support have got email from Oracle mentioning that Critical Patch Update January 2012 has been released. Main reason behind this is [Read More]

GRID

Get Upgrading: Upgrade to Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c

This post describes the steps to upgrade an existing 11g Enterprise Manager Grid Control (11.1.0.1.0) to 12c (12.1.0.1.0). The Complete Upgrade process will be carried out under 3 different stages: 1. Patch existing 11g OMS to get the 12c upgrade console. 2. Deploy and Configure 12c agents. 3. Upgrade 11g OMS to 12c. The approach used [Read More]

Performance

Optimizer Choosing Nested-Loop Joins Instead of Hash-Joins

In one of my databases, one application query suddenly started to pick Nested-Loop joins [Read More]

Plan Stability using Sql Profiles and SQL Plan Management

PLAN STABILITY How many times you have noticed a query using Index X when you wanted it [Read More]

V$SQL_SHARED_CURSOR in 11.2.0.2

Oracle 11.2.0.2 has introduced new column “REASON” to V$SQL_SHARED_CURSORS. I [Read More]

Featured

Get Upgrading: Upgrade to Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c

Get Upgrading: Upgrade to Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c

This post describes the steps to upgrade an existing 11g Enterprise Manager Grid Control (11.1.0.1.0) to 12c (12.1.0.1.0). The Complete Upgrade process will be carried out under 3 different stages: 1. Patch existing 11g OMS to get the 12c upgrade console. 2. Deploy and [Read More]

Upgrading Grid Infrastructure 11.2.0.1 to 11.2.0.2 on RHEL4

Upgrading Grid Infrastructure 11.2.0.1 to 11.2.0.2 on RHEL4

11.2.0.2 Patchset was released few days back. I decided to upgrade a test RAC database to 11.2.0.2 yesterday and was able [Read More]

11gR2: Steps to Rename ASM Diskgroup with DB files

11gR2 introduced renamedg utility to rename diskgroups. I would discuss renaming a diskgroup on a Standalone Grid [Read More]

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 [Read More]

Recent Comments

  • User AvatarSaurabh Sood { Hi Pawan, We cannot force the writes to a specific disk. At least I am not aware of any such thing. Oracle will write the... } – Jan 30, 8:37 AM
  • User AvatarAmit { hi Pawan, ASM_PREFERRED_READ_FAILURE_GROUPS is mainly used for RAC instances and that too stretch clusters i.e when RAC nodes are not sitting in same cluster. On... } – Jan 29, 6:36 PM
  • User AvatarPAWAN { HI, i am newbie.... please guide me! My manager asked me to configure ASM in 11g with single instance database! with Normal redundancy with two... } – Jan 29, 4:41 PM
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  • User AvatarSaurabh Sood { @Ganesh: The global stats were up-to-date for both the databases, though I did not check the col stats. But the automated gather_stats_job ran next day... } – Jan 21, 8:40 AM
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