Original Post can be viewed at 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 down when [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at 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) from t1 where c1<>'abc' and c2=12345 and c3='Y' and c4='xyz'; This query [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at 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 , Oracle Wallet provides you with [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at 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 database 9.2.0.6 then first you [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at 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 to use ASM for storing database files, then you should [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at 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 http://tahiti.oracle.com (13:30 G.M.T) Update : – Thanks to H.Tonguç , documentation can be accesed at http://www.oracle.com/pls/db112/homepage?remark=tahiti Cheers Amit Related PostsUsing Oracle Wallet to [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at 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 http://mwidlake.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/automated-statistics-gathering-silently-fails/ Automated Statistics Gathering Silently Fails #2 http://mwidlake.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/automated-statistics-gathering-silently-fails-2/ Automatic Statistics Gathering Fails #3   http://mwidlake.wordpress.com/2009/07/29/automatic-statistics-gathering-fails-3/ Automated statistics [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at 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, faced following errors for unixODBC* rpm #rpm -ivh compat-libstdc++-33* libaio-devel* sysstat* unixODBC* warning: compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-61.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 1e5e0159 [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at 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  requires one to upgrade to supported release i.e 10.2. [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at 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 change/restore password SQL> create user amit identified by amit; User [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at 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 effects of the change. In Oracle 11g this thing is simplified [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at 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 System for checking Hardware and Software Requirements. User Creation and Environment Settings [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at 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 filesystem which was introduced with Oracle 10g. [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at 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 Diskgroup/add disk, etc. <strong>$ adrci</strong> ADRCI: Release 11.1.0.6.0 - Beta on Tue Jul [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at 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&gt; show incident ADR Home = /u03/app/oracle/diag/asm/+asm/+ASM: ********************************************************* 0 rows fetched adrci&gt; show alert ADR Home [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at 11.1.0.6 ASM installation on Solaris fails -II

Some time back, I had written about CSS service not starting in my post 11.1.0.6 ASM installation on Solaris fails -I After doing some research, I came across Metalink Document Note:397238.1 – How to Convert init.cssd as a SMF service for Solaris 10 This document talks about using Service Management Facility (SMF) which was introduced [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at Can ASM DiskGroup Be Renamed?

This was actually a question on Oracle forum which I had replied to. Basically the Poster, wanted to know if he could rename the ASM Diskgroup name by renaming/editing ASM Disk header. He had also mentioned that he had heard about this being done by Oracle for its few customers using kfed. Answer is NO. [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at kfed in 11g

While carrying out Oracle Database 11g install, I noticed that kfed is automatically created. This is in contrast to 10.2 where you had to create it using “make” command. In case you are looking for 10.2 method, you can find it in my previous post ORA-15063 – ASM Discovered Insufficient amount of Disks Related Posts11gR2 [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at 11.1.0.6 ASM installation on Solaris fails -I

Looks like that there is no easy way for me to install/configure Oracle components. And every install/configuration leads me to some or the other problems. Anyways I was trying to install Oracle Database 11g on a Solaris 10 but the CSS does not seems to come up. While issuing localconfig add as root user it [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at Allocation Unit and Extents In ASM

ASM was introduced with Oracle 10g and is used as a Volume Manager and a file system. It provides both mirroring and striping of the database files. To use ASM you need to create a Diskgroup and add disks/raw devices to the Diskgroup.Data is allocated in disks in terms of Extents. As per documentation Every [...]

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