Posts Tagged ‘11g’
11gR1 CRS start failing with ORA-29702
This post was actually a comment from Sasi which came on previous article 10.2 CRS startup issue . I am converting it to a post so that we can get some feedback on this issue from other users. I suspect this to be caused by RHEL5 bug (fixed in RHEL5u6) related to NIC going [Read More]
ORA-01722 with Full Table Scan
My application developers approached me with an issue which is very unique to me. They were complaining about a query which was failing with ORA-01722 “invalid number” after an upgrade to 11.1.0.7 from 10.2.0.4. The syntax of the query is like: select max(a) [Read More]
Using Oracle Wallet to Execute Shell script/cron without hard coded Oracle database password
You have been asked to schedule a shell script which need to connect to a particular user and perform some action? How do you pass the password to script without hardcoding it in script. If password is written in a script, isn’t it a security threat? Well with 10gR2 [Read More]
Get Upgrading: Steps To Upgrade To 11gR2
As 11gR2 is out for Linux, I decided to upgrade one of my existing 10.2.0.3 database to 11.2.0.1 to get the look and feel of 11gR2. Direct upgrade to 11gR2 is supported from 9.2.0.8 or higher, 10.1.0.5 or higher, 10.2.0.2 or higher and 11.1.0.6 or higher. If you have a [Read More]
11gR2 Database Installation with ASM on OEL5
I will be listing down steps for 11g Release 2 installation on Linux x86. There has been few changes incorporated in 11gR2 which must be given due consideration before starting installation. ASM instance now runs from new Oracle Home called Grid Infrastructure. If you wish [Read More]
Oracle 11gR2 on linux is out
Oracle 11gR2 has been released for linux x86 and x86-64 platform. Software can be downloaded at http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/database/index.html Guys start downloading..:) .. Note: – As of now documentation link is not available on [Read More]
GATHER_STATS_JOB – Is it enabled?
Few days back , Martin had posted a series of post on a issue where GATHER_STATS_JOB was failing silently for a large object. If you have missed it, you can check following links Automated statistics gathering silently fails [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]
Installing 10.2.0.5 EM using software-only on 10.2.0.4/11g DB (GUI)
In this article , I will discuss how to install 10.2.0.5 EM Grid using 10.2.0.4 database. This method can also be used with 11g database.When you carry out 10.2.0.1 EM Grid control installation, it creates a 10.1.0.4 Database by default which is no longer supported and [Read More]
How To Change/Restore User Password in 11G
Oracle 11g introduces Case-sensitive passwords for database authentication. Along with this if you wish to change the password (temporarily) and reset it back to old , you will find that password field in dba_users is empty. Prior to 11g we could use following technique to [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]
Oracle Database 11G Installation on Solaris 10
I had installed Oracle Database 11g on Solaris 10 few days back. I thought of documenting the steps for easy reference. Please find below steps for the same Installation Pre-Requisite Refer to Oracle Database Installation Guide 11g Release 1 (11.1) for Solaris Operating [Read More]
Automatic Storage Management (ASM) FAQ
We have tried to consolidate list of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) on ASM. Please feel free to ask any other question or contribute to this FAQ by using comment section Frequently Asked Question on ASM 1) What is ASM? Automatic storage Management (ASM) is a new type of [Read More]
11G:SYSASM role
Starting from Oracle 11g ASM, new privilege has been created for Administering Oracle ASM instances. This is called SYSASM role. You can continue using SYSDBA role to connect to ASM but it will generate following warning messages at time of startup/shutdown, create [Read More]
New ASM Background Processes in 11G
Few hours back I installed Oracle Database 11g(Though still DB is yet to be created), so I started playing with the ASM instance. First thing I did was to check ASM alert.log. I used ADRCI (11g) to see it adrci> show incident ADR Home = [Read More]
