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Renaming Diskgroup containing Voting Disk and OCR

Recently encountered a issue where we had to rename a diskgroup for 11.2 RAC containing OCR and Voting Disk.At this [Read More]

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]

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11gR2:What if Oracle gives you Kernel parameter fixup script

11gR2:What if Oracle gives you Kernel parameter fixup script

11gR2 database installation comes up with new  feature known as Installation Fixup scripts which aids you during Installation phase.  If a pre-requisite check fails, then it provides a click and generate fixup script option and then points you to script location which [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]

OCFS2 Configuration Issue

While setting up ocfs2 for OCR and Voting disk storage with following commad: # ocfs2console After clicking on ==>cluster ==> configure nodes, I got a pop-up saying: "Could not start cluster stack. This must be resolved before any OCFS2 filesystem can be mounted." [Read More]

GATHER_STATS_JOB – Is it enabled?

Few days back , Martin had posted a series of post on a issue where GATHER_STATS_JOB was failing silently for a large object. If you have missed it, you can check following links Automated statistics gathering silently fails [Read More]

Failed dependencies error: lib* needed by unixODBC-devel-2.2.11-7.1.i386

While trying to install 11gR1 on Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL5), runInstaller failed for unixODBC* packages. To solve the issue , I started following OTN article http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/smiley-11gr1-install.html When trying to install RPM from CD3, [Read More]

Mview Complete Refresh and Atomic_refresh parameter

This post discusses issue faced by me while working on Materialized view (mview) creation at new site(database). Starting Oracle 10g, how atomic_refresh works with complete refresh has undergone a change. Atomic_refresh parameter is to allow either all of the tasks of a [Read More]

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Lalit had this to say

Nice article. keep it up buddy. Read the post

Renaming Diskgroup containing Voting Disk/OCR | AskDba.org Weblog had this to say

had done similar activity on 11.2 Single instance having database files (see this post) using renamedg. We tried using Read the post

csk had this to say

In my case the adding Disk to an existing Disk Group failed as the disk was not visible from other RAC node.Now the Read the post

Saurabh Sood had this to say

Hi CSK, In this case, the information is already written into disk header, and to reuse the disk the only option i s Read the post

csk had this to say

Yeah. I have opened SR with Oracle. Once I get solution , I will provide it here. Read the post