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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]

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 [Read More]

Optimizer Choosing Nested-Loop Joins Instead of Hash-Joins

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

Posts Tagged ‘cron’

Generating Datapump Export Dump with Dumpfile name Containing Current Date and Time

Few days back I got a request from development team to generate hourly export dumps of few schemas. Following were the requirements: 1. Dumpfile name should contain current date and timestamp information. 2. The generated dumpfile should be moved to a specific location. 3. [Read More]

Scheduling Job through Cron??

In case you came across this link searching for Cron syntax, then you can refer to following link http://www.adminschoice.com/docs/crontab.htm Other’s can continue reading the article …. This was a problem which I faced yesterday. We had a mview refresh which [Read More]

Recent Comments

Saurabh Sood had this to say

Hi Pawan, We cannot force the writes to a specific disk. At least I am not aware of any such thing. Oracle will Read the post

Amit had this to say

hi Pawan, ASM_PREFERRED_READ_FAILURE_GROUPS is mainly used for RAC instances and that too stretch clusters i.e when Read the post

PAWAN had this to say

HI, i am newbie.... please guide me! My manager asked me to configure ASM in 11g with single instance Read the post

PAWAN had this to say

HI, i am newbie.... please guide me! My manager asked me to configure ASM in 11g with single instance Read the post

Saurabh Sood had this to say

@Ganesh: The global stats were up-to-date for both the databases, though I did not check the col stats. But the Read the post