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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]

Posts Tagged ‘ASM’

ORA-1078 ORA-1565 Errors while starting database with SPFILE on ASM

I was getting following error’s while starting a database using spfile on ASM. Actually this was a cloned RAC environment. SQL> create SPFILE='+ASM_GROUP/PORTALDB/spfileportaldb.ora' from pfile; File created. SQL> shut immediate; ORA-01109: database not open [Read More]

Creating ASM devices on AIX

I thought of sharing few tips on creating ASM devices on AIX which I will be helpful to Oracle DBA’s. Suppose SysAdmin gives you list of Serial numbers for LUN instead of device Name pcmpath query device DEV#: 33 DEVICE NAME: hdisk33 TYPE: 2107900 ALGORITHM: Load [Read More]

Creating Oracle Extended RAC on Oracle VM

Yesterday, I found one very useful article at OTN “Creating Oracle Extended RAC” on completely virtual environment using Oracle VM. As Virtualization is becoming popular day by day and is very cost effective, one must know how to use this to simulate actual [Read More]

Question:Sizing ASM LUN

We received following question from Mr Orlando through our Contact Page How about a discussion on how to size our LUNS to use with ASM. For instance we have a Dell MD3000 with 44x300GB HDDs (protected by RAID-10) and we’re planning to create LUNs of 2TB on the [Read More]

Raw Devices to be deprecated in 12G

I was browsing through the OraNA.info posts and found an interesting post from Steve Karam which referred to a metalink Note:578455.1 – Announcement of De-Support of RAW devices in Release 12G If you go through the note, it mentions desupport of Raw devices from [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]

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Deepak had this to say

Thanks a lot Amit. Very useful doc. Please update something more like this. Read the post

Amit had this to say

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I tried but got the below error msg wget .load-cookies=cookies.txt --user-agent Mozilla/4.0 Read the post

Richard had this to say

Hello, Great this tip that you sent, you helped me so much. but take care when to use dd command. Regards, Read the post

Ram had this to say

This is very straight forward and clear.It has become easy when compared to referring the looong docs. Read the post