Online patching is new feature introduced in 11.1.0.6 and oracle started delivering patches with 11.2.0.2. This patch allows you to apply patch to live database i.e we do not need to shutdown database. This feature is only available for RDBMS home and can be installed/enabled using opatch. RDBMS Online Patching Aka Hot Patching [ID 761111.1]…
I was trying to recreate database links as part of database migration activity. This involved mixture of 8i,9i and 10g database. In case of 8i/9i it is very easy to find the old password which was used to create database link as passwords for database links are stored in Clear Text (decrypted format) in SYS.LINK$…
ORA-00600 with [12333] is an error that I have encountered on multiple occasions. This post is to shed some light on what this error is all about. To start with let us try to understand when does oracle report ora-00600 error. An ora-00600 error is raised in the exception handler section of Oracle’s c-program code.…