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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 ‘ora-4031’

BUG:10082277: Database Connections failing with ORA-4031

A short write-up on a problem faced in few newly upgraded databases to 11.2.0.1 : I faced this issue in couple of databases which were recently upgraded to 11gR2, the problem is so severe that even connecting using “/ as sysdba”  is not working and erroring out [Read More]

Simplified Approach to Resolve ORA-4031

After writing few Case studies and other related articles, I will be sharing my approach for Resolving ORA -4031 error. First we will see what ORA-4031 actually means. 04031, 00000, "unable to allocate %s bytes of shared memory [Read More]

ORA- 4031 – A Case Study

Today I will be taking up one ORA-4031 issue we faced on one of our client database. Please note that SQL statements mentioned below have been changed and does not reveal any confidential information. Our client was facing ORA-4031 on a 9.2 database.This was a new Database [Read More]

Application Design and ORA – 4031

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]

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]

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]

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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

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

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