Posts Tagged ‘database’
Significance of LD_LIBRARY_PATH
Few days back, I wanted to remove a instance semaphore as they were not cleared automatically due to abnormal shutdown. As there were few other databases running on the server , so I thought of capturing the semaphore id to remove them manually using “ipcrm” . [Read More]
CPU (Critical Patch Update) and N-apply
OVERVIEW Oracle has been regularly releasing security fixes for all it’s products to take care of any security vulnerability. Since 2005 Oracle formulated a policy that it will release CPU patch ( bundle of security fixes) every quarter (January, April, July, and [Read More]
Understanding of Oracle 11g Automatic Diagnostic Repository – Part 1
INTRODUCTION In an endeavour to move towards self managed database and provide better support solutions, Oracle 11g introduces another new feature in 11g called the Automatic Diagnostic Repository or ADR. As the name implies ADR is a automatically managed file based [Read More]
Physical Corruption: ORA-1578 PART-2
Recovering from physical corruption: 1. Using BMR when RMAN backups are available When small set of blocks are corrupted, Block Media Recovery (BMR) can be used as a recovery technique. The advantage of BMR is that it can be performed without taking the datafiles offline [Read More]
Application Design and ORA – 4031
Much has been written on designing good application (which uses bind variables) so as to have better performance and avoid shared pool memory issues. Tom Kyte explains this on one of his post consequences of not using bind variables If you do not use bind variables and you [Read More]
Physical Corruption: ORA-1578 -Part 1
ORA-1578 is indication of physical block corruption. Oracle computes an internal checksum before fetching the block from disk, when it is about to fetch the block it reads the block header and compare the checksum stored in it. If the checksum mismatches we get ora-1578 [Read More]
Deciding “PROCESSES” parameter value
Many times we observe following error which corresponds to low setting of processes parameter. $ oerr ora 20 00020, 00000, “maximum number of processes (%s) exceeded” // *Cause: All process state objects are in use. // *Action: Increase the value of the [Read More]
ERRORSTACK- Oracle Debugging Event
One more post arising out of my frequent visits to Oracle forum Basically there was a question on “How to set events for ORA – 1652 errors” I had replied to the post but Aman asked me if I could provide any notes regarding Errorstack.I didn’t had one [Read More]
Changing Database Characterset With Export/Import Utilities
Recently there was a thread on Oracle Forums regarding change of Database characterset from WE8ISO8859P1 to AL32UTF8. User wanted to upgrade his database from 9i to 10g and also change the database characterset. He was looking forward to use either Export/Import utilities [Read More]
Tweaking _Shared_pool_reserved_min_alloc and ORA – 4031
Here comes one more article dedicated towards diagnosing ORA- 4031 and related parameters. While googling on ORA-4031 error or working on TAR with Oracle Support you will most likely hit this parameter “_Shared_pool_reserved_min_alloc “ and find a advice for [Read More]
Undo Tablespace Sizing
In this post I will be discussing various types of Undo extents which can be helpful in determining cause of ORA-30036 i.e unable to extend segment by %s in undo tablespace ‘%s’ and ORA-1555 – Snapshot too old Error While using Automatic Undo management (Set [Read More]
Shared Sub Pools
Today I will discuss about Shared pool subpools which have been introduced in release 9iR2 and higher (To be precise >9.2.0.5) and can be controlled by a hidden parameter “_kghdsidx_count “ Most of you would not have come across this term/parameter unless you [Read More]
