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Stabilize Oracle 10G's Bind Peeking Behaviour

I wrote this post because I feel there is a great need for it. The number of people struggling with unstable query ...

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Oracle Silent Mode, Part 9: Remove a Node from an 11.1 RAC database

This 9 th post will describe how to remove a node from a 11.1 RAC cluster in silent mode. It will differ from the ...

Oracle

Oracle 11g's SQL Performance Analyzer

A lot of things have already been said about the Real Application Testing Option -- from the price to the most ...

Oracle

Oracle 11g -- Audit Enabled by Default, But What About Purging?

Introduction If you have created a new Oracle 11g database using DBCA and opted to use by default 11g's enhanced ...

Oracle

Oracle RAC and gv$ Views: A Second Look

Context I decided to reprise my commentary on Oracle RAC and the gv$ views after reading Patrick’s comments on my ...

Oracle

How To Choose Your Oracle Database ID (DBID)

You can choose a DBID when you rename your Oracle database. This is probably a bad, unsupported, and useless idea. I ...

MySQL

MySQL: Replacing URL Escape Sequences

Requirement So you want to store URLs in MySQL, and the URLs have those annoying %20%27%7C%26%5E%2B%2D%25 symbols? And ...

Oracle Silent Mode, Part 6: Removing a Node From a 10.2 RAC

This sixth post describes how to remove a node from a 10.2 RAC cluster in silent mode. It differs from the associated ...

Oracle

How to Rename a Copied or Cloned ASM Disk Group

ASM is definitely one of the coolest technologies inside the Oracle Database. On the other hand, the ability of the ...

Oracle

Testing a Physical Standby Database in Oracle 10g

If you don’t want to deal with missteps, I recommend that you test your standby database to facilitate the failover or ...

Oracle

ORA-01450 During Online Index Rebuild

Background We hit an ORA-01450 error today trying to do online rebuild for an index in an unusable state. This was a ...

Oracle

Oracle file extent map, the old-fashioned way

Background Have you ever wanted to know where exactly in a datafile segments are placed? Have you ever wondered just ...

Oracle

Oracle Silent Mode, Part 8: Add a Node to a 11.1 RAC Database

The process of adding a node to a 11.1 RAC is very similar to the 10.2 process described in Part 5 of this series. For ...

Oracle

SELECT COUNT(*) FROM Tab -> No Rows Selected

In the following SQL*Plus output… SQL> select sum(tran_sum), count(*) 2 from trans; no rows selected …something is ...

Oracle

Oracle RAC, v$, and gv$

According to wikipedia, “The rack is a medieval torture . . . which induces excruciating pain as the victim’s joints ...

Oracle

Standby Log Apply Elapsed Time

This has been discussed before by my colleague Paul Moen in his article on Oracle standby recovery rate monitoring, but ...

Oracle

How to Tie OS-level PIDs to Oracle Database Sessions

About once a week, our team gets a request from the server admins to provide some information on why a database server ...

Oracle

Oracle ASM 11g: Does the ASMCMD cp Command Really Work?

Update 21-Sep-2011: It’s definitely was a bug in an early 11g release. As cp command does work in the latest release. ...

Oracle

How To Set Up Oracle ASM on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon

I’ve recently moved to Ubuntu Linux, and this post describes my attempt to play around with Oracle ASM on Ubuntu. For ...

Microsoft SQL Server

SQL Server: Understanding and Controlling Connection

I got the idea for this article when one of our clients complained that their server’s performance was degrading during ...

Oracle

Using DBMS_SYS_SQL to Execute Statements as Another User

I do realize that for most of you, there may be nothing new about the dbms_sys_sql package knowledge of it has been ...

Oracle

Oracle Outside In Technology 8.2.0

Today I found some interesting software pieces available for download from Oracle TechNet. “Oracle Outside In ...

Oracle

Oracle: Is OUTER JOIN Better Than NOT EXISTS?

I’ve been told that using NOT EXISTS in (Oracle) SQL is a bad idea, and that a way to overcome this problem is to ...

Oracle

Oracle Silent Mode, Part 1: Installation Of 10.2 And 11.1 Databases

This post is the first of a series of ten posts that will explore some of the Oracle Universal Installer (OUI), Network ...

Oracle

How To Recreate the Oracle Clusterware Voting Disk

Recreating the Voting disk may not be as easy as written in Metalink. If you work with RAC, you know about Metalink ...

Microsoft SQL Server

T-SQL Script: Return Replication Info, Plus Undistributed Commands

In SQL Server Replication, a regular check is getting the number of undistributed commands for a transactional ...

Oracle

Oracle Grid Control: The Importance of Deleting the emkey

Disclaimer: In most countries, looking at user passwords is illegal. Never try what is written below on a system that ...

Oracle

Consistent Gets not the Best Way to Look at Query Performance

This post is for those who think Consistent Gets is the only thing that matters. It’s not. That’s why Statspack and AWR ...

Oracle

Oracle 11g ASM Diskgroup Compatibility

Back in April I was at COLLABORATE 08 and delivered a presentation on 11g — Oracle 11g New Features Out of the Box, ...

Oracle

Total Recall by DUDE: Extracting Oracle Data After RAID Corruption

Last Friday, a customer paged me to say that they could not open an Oracle 8.0.5 database after the RAID array crashed. ...

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Stabilize Oracle 10G's Bind Peeking Behaviour

Oracle Silent Mode, Part 9: Remove a Node from an 11.1 RAC database

Oracle 11g's SQL Performance Analyzer

Oracle 11g -- Audit Enabled by Default, But What About Purging?

Oracle RAC and gv$ Views: A Second Look

How To Choose Your Oracle Database ID (DBID)

MySQL: Replacing URL Escape Sequences

Oracle Silent Mode, Part 6: Removing a Node From a 10.2 RAC

How to Rename a Copied or Cloned ASM Disk Group

Testing a Physical Standby Database in Oracle 10g

ORA-01450 During Online Index Rebuild

Oracle file extent map, the old-fashioned way

Oracle Silent Mode, Part 8: Add a Node to a 11.1 RAC Database

SELECT COUNT(*) FROM Tab -> No Rows Selected

Oracle RAC, v$, and gv$

Standby Log Apply Elapsed Time

How to Tie OS-level PIDs to Oracle Database Sessions

Oracle ASM 11g: Does the ASMCMD cp Command Really Work?

How To Set Up Oracle ASM on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon

SQL Server: Understanding and Controlling Connection

Using DBMS_SYS_SQL to Execute Statements as Another User

Oracle Outside In Technology 8.2.0

Oracle: Is OUTER JOIN Better Than NOT EXISTS?

Oracle Silent Mode, Part 1: Installation Of 10.2 And 11.1 Databases

How To Recreate the Oracle Clusterware Voting Disk

T-SQL Script: Return Replication Info, Plus Undistributed Commands

Oracle Grid Control: The Importance of Deleting the emkey

Consistent Gets not the Best Way to Look at Query Performance

Oracle 11g ASM Diskgroup Compatibility

Total Recall by DUDE: Extracting Oracle Data After RAID Corruption

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