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Effect Of Multiple SHMMAX Settings

Last week I saw a warning message at database startup time saying: WARNING: EINVAL creating segment of size [Read More]

Finding blogging tough? Just copy and do find and replace

Finding blogging tough? Just copy and do find and replace

Well this is motto followed by Guenadi Jilevski for his blog http://gjilevski.wordpress.com and he seems to get result [Read More]

Physical Corruption: ORA-1578 part 3

Recently we encountered a block corruption issue in 10g database on Linux x86 64 bit and using ASM for storing database [Read More]

Cloning RAC Database with RMAN fails with error

Steps for cloning a RAC database  with RMAN is similar to cloning a single instance database. But while using rman [Read More]

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]

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Effect Of Multiple SHMMAX Settings

Last week I saw a warning message at database startup time saying: WARNING: EINVAL creating segment of size 0x000000000f0020xx fix shm parameters in /etc/system or equivalent It is an Oracle 10204 database running on Solaris. Searching MOS for exact meaning for this [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]

CleanUp Temporary Segments Occupying Permanent Tablespace

There are situations when we see “temporary segments” in permanent tablespaces hanging around and not getting cleaned up. These temporary segments in permanent tablespace can be created by DDL operations like CTAS and “alter index..rebuild” because [Read More]

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]

Cloning database..Just do some Post checks !!

Well I will be covering some points which I believe should be part of post checklist for any cloned database environment. This might not be complete list as it contains point which I have encountered or heard of. 1) Change database Name and Database Id You should try to [Read More]

Connections to DataBase Hang Including “/ as sysdba”

Recently I faced one issue where all the connection to database hung and it was also not possible to login to database using “/ as sysdba”. To get access of sqlplus I used the following syntax: $ sqlplus -prelim / as sysdba With “prelim” option we [Read More]

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