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	<title>AskDba.org Weblog &#187; Unix</title>
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		<title>How To Discover Disk Name When LUN Number is Known (OEL5)</title>
		<link>http://askdba.org/weblog/2010/02/how-to-discover-disk-name-when-lun-number-is-known-oel5/</link>
		<comments>http://askdba.org/weblog/2010/02/how-to-discover-disk-name-when-lun-number-is-known-oel5/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:36:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saurabh Sood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Unix]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://askdba.org/weblog/?p=756</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am creating 11gR2 RAC setup for one of my client. Following Oracle documentation for storage, I opted for Oracle ASM and asked storage team for new physical devices. Storage admin thus provided me with a set of LUNs instead of actual physical device names like /dev/sdcxxx. Now the major task is to get the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sqlplus connection on AIX taking too long</title>
		<link>http://askdba.org/weblog/2009/09/sqlplus-connection-on-aix-taking-too-long/</link>
		<comments>http://askdba.org/weblog/2009/09/sqlplus-connection-on-aix-taking-too-long/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amit</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Performance]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://askdba.org/weblog/?p=678</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently we faced a performance issue, where in sqlplus connection from application server A (AIX 5.3) to Database server DB (different physical server,10gR2 on AIX 5.3) was taking nearly 1-2 minutes.  We did some quick check&#8217;s to narrow down the problematic area.i.e Is it network or database server or some issue with application server? 1)Vmstat [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Use awk/sed in vi</title>
		<link>http://askdba.org/weblog/2009/07/use-awksed-in-vi/</link>
		<comments>http://askdba.org/weblog/2009/07/use-awksed-in-vi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:19:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Unix]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tips]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://askdba.org/weblog/?p=497</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 was doing by typing multiple substitution [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Connections to DataBase Hang Including &#8220;/ as sysdba&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://askdba.org/weblog/2009/04/connections-to-database-hang-including-as-sysdba/</link>
		<comments>http://askdba.org/weblog/2009/04/connections-to-database-hang-including-as-sysdba/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saurabh Sood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Performance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oracle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[10g]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[database]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hang]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hangs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oracle 10g]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unix]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://askdba.org/weblog/?p=379</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I faced one issue where all the connection to database hung and it was also not possible to login to database using &#8220;/ as sysdba&#8221;. To get access of sqlplus I used the following syntax: $ sqlplus -prelim / as sysdba With &#8220;prelim&#8221; option we can run some commands which will help in collection [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Scheduling Job through Cron??</title>
		<link>http://askdba.org/weblog/2009/02/scheduling-job-through-cron/</link>
		<comments>http://askdba.org/weblog/2009/02/scheduling-job-through-cron/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:28:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[database]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oracle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unix]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://askdba.org/weblog/?p=355</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In case you came across this link searching for Cron syntax, then you can refer to following link http://www.adminschoice.com/docs/crontab.htm Other&#8217;s can continue reading the article &#8230;. This was a problem which I faced yesterday. We had a mview refresh which was lagging on one of the server. On checking master site, I found that there [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Creating ASM devices on AIX</title>
		<link>http://askdba.org/weblog/2009/02/creating-asm-devices-on-aix/</link>
		<comments>http://askdba.org/weblog/2009/02/creating-asm-devices-on-aix/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 06:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Install]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://askdba.org/weblog/?p=347</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I thought of sharing few tips on creating ASM devices on AIX which I will be helpful to Oracle DBA&#8217;s. Suppose SysAdmin gives you list of Serial numbers for LUN instead of device Name pcmpath query device DEV#: 33 DEVICE NAME: hdisk33 TYPE: 2107900 ALGORITHM: Load Balance SERIAL: 75DM0111101 =========================================================================== Path# Adapter/Path Name State Mode [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>CRS Fails to Start &#8211; 10.2.0.1 RAC Install on AIX</title>
		<link>http://askdba.org/weblog/2009/02/crs-fails-to-start-10201-rac-install-on-aix/</link>
		<comments>http://askdba.org/weblog/2009/02/crs-fails-to-start-10201-rac-install-on-aix/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 05:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[RAC]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[CRS]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://askdba.org/weblog/?p=343</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was installing 10.2.0.1 on IBM AIX 5L and while running root.sh from first node (as part of Clusterware installation) got following messages Now formatting voting device: /dev/voting_disk01 Now formatting voting device: /dev/voting_disk02 Now formatting voting device: /dev/voting_disk03 Format of 3 voting devices complete. Startup will be queued to init within 30 seconds I waited [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Input is too long (&gt; 2499 characters) &#8211; line ignored</title>
		<link>http://askdba.org/weblog/2009/01/input-is-too-long-2499-characters-line-ignored/</link>
		<comments>http://askdba.org/weblog/2009/01/input-is-too-long-2499-characters-line-ignored/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:40:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[database]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oracle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sqlplus]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[vi]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://askdba.org/weblog/?p=340</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are times when you observe above mentioned error while creating view and mview from mview definition taken from Toad or indexfile option. vi editor comes in handy to resolve this issue. Copy the code in Text file and while in escape mode enter following command :%s/,/,^M/g Please note that to insert ^M you need to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Easy and Free X-Windowing Setup with Cygwin</title>
		<link>http://askdba.org/weblog/2008/06/easy-and-free-x-windowing-setup-with-cygwin/</link>
		<comments>http://askdba.org/weblog/2008/06/easy-and-free-x-windowing-setup-with-cygwin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Install]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oracle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unix]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today I had to carry out Oracle client Installation on one of the server. Normally I use vncviewer to connect to one of my Linux machine (having vncserver setup) and then get the display on to that machine. But my colleague suggested me about one more approach, which I thought of sharing with all of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Significance of LD_LIBRARY_PATH</title>
		<link>http://askdba.org/weblog/2008/05/significance-of-ld_library_path/</link>
		<comments>http://askdba.org/weblog/2008/05/significance-of-ld_library_path/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 12:16:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[database]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oracle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unix]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Few days back, I wanted to remove a instance semaphore as they were not cleared automatically due to abnormal shutdown. As there were few other databases running on the server , so I thought of capturing the semaphore id to remove them manually using &#8220;ipcrm&#8221; . For this purpose, we are required to use sysresv [...]]]></description>
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