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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 ‘opatch’

Oracle Patch Set update (PSU 2) released for 10.2.0.4 and 11.1.0.7

Oracle has recently released Oracle Patch Set update (PSU 2) along with CPU October 2009. As informed earlier , PSU are released quarterly along with CPU patches. If you are running 10.2.0.4 RAC database, you need to apply following patches 1) Apply Patch 8833280 [Read More]

OUI-67124 – Copy failed from ‘location 1′ to ‘location 2′

Just a short note to discuss a problem faced by me while applying CPU Jan patch to clusterware on AIX 5L. I was getting following errors UtilSession failed: ApplySession failed in system modification phase... 'ApplySession::apply failed: Copy failed from [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]

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

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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