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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]

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]

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Posts Tagged ‘Security’

Using Oracle Wallet to Execute Shell script/cron without hard coded Oracle database password

Using Oracle Wallet to Execute Shell script/cron without hard coded Oracle database password

You have been asked to schedule a shell script which need to connect to a  particular user and perform some action? How do you pass the password to script without hardcoding it in script. If password is written in a script, isn’t it a security threat? Well with 10gR2 [Read More]

Database Security: Transparent Data Encryption

Data in the database is secured by using authentication, authorization and auditing mechanism, but the information stored in the datafiles can be read using any hex-editor tools or other OS level utilities, which is causing threat to sensitive  data. To overcome this [Read More]

How To Change/Restore User Password in 11G

Oracle 11g introduces Case-sensitive passwords for database authentication. Along with this if you wish to change the password (temporarily) and reset it back to old , you will find that password field in dba_users is empty. Prior to 11g we could use following technique to [Read More]

Solving ORA-1031 while connecting as “/ as sysdba” :

Many times we see an issue like this: SQL> conn / as sysdba ERROR: ORA-01031: insufficient privileges This is a very common and frequent error that can occur after the new oracle software install or due to some permissions changes at OS level. I will dicuss the approach [Read More]

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