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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]

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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 You wish to see alert log for multi-node RAC simultaneously or edit sysctl.conf files for multiple machines. Cluster SSH utility helps solve this problem as [Read More]

Use awk/sed in vi

Thought of sharing some useful info which can help you to do your work faster in vi.You can use awk/sed scripts in vi using following command in vi :%!scriptname Here the scriptname file should have execute privilges for user. I used this to create a useful script which I [Read More]

CRSCTL CheatSheet

You can find below various commands which can be used to administer Oracle Clusterware using crsctl. This is for purpose of easy reference. Start Oracle Clusterware #crsctl start crs Stop Oracle Clusterware #crsctl stop crs Enable Oracle Clusterware #crsctl enable crs It [Read More]

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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