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Friday July 30th 2010

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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]

‘Metric execution timed out’ error reported by Grid

We use 10.2 Enterprise Manager Grid control  to monitor our oracle database environments . Apart from the normal [Read More]

Downloading Oracle Software directly to Server

Downloading Oracle Software directly to Server

This article is based on Pythian’s aricle DOWNLOADING FROM OTN DIRECTLY TO YOUR DATABASE SERVER. Article [Read More]

11gR2 Silent Install errors with [SEVERE] – Invalid My Oracle Support credentials

While performing  11gR2 RAC Database Software installation with response file (silent mode), I got this error. - [Read More]

opmnctl start fails when ORA_NLS10 parameter is set

I got into this issue , where in while starting Grid Control components, opmnctl command failed with following errors [Read More]

Posts Tagged ‘oracle 10g’

SRVCTL fails to start RAC resources:CRS-0215

After upgrading RAC database to 10204 and applying CRS bundle patch-1 for 10204 crs home, srvctl command fails to startup resources on rac nodes. While starting up RAC resources using SRVCTL following error occurs in CRSD.log file: $ srvctl start instance -d rac -i rac2 [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]

Creating Oracle Extended RAC on Oracle VM

Yesterday, I found one very useful article at OTN “Creating Oracle Extended RAC” on completely virtual environment using Oracle VM. As Virtualization is becoming popular day by day and is very cost effective, one must know how to use this to simulate actual [Read More]

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