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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 ‘Unix’

CRS Fails to Start – 10.2.0.1 RAC Install on AIX

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: [Read More]

Input is too long (> 2499 characters) – line ignored

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 [Read More]

Easy and Free X-Windowing Setup with Cygwin

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 [Read More]

Significance of LD_LIBRARY_PATH

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 “ipcrm” . [Read More]

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Deepak had this to say

Thanks a lot Amit. Very useful doc. Please update something more like this. Read the post

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I tried but got the below error msg wget .load-cookies=cookies.txt --user-agent Mozilla/4.0 Read the post

Richard had this to say

Hello, Great this tip that you sent, you helped me so much. but take care when to use dd command. Regards, Read the post

Ram had this to say

This is very straight forward and clear.It has become easy when compared to referring the looong docs. Read the post