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I wrote this post because I feel there is a great need for it. The number of people struggling with unstable query ...
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 ...
A lot of things have already been said about the Real Application Testing Option -- from the price to the most ...
Introduction If you have created a new Oracle 11g database using DBCA and opted to use by default 11g's enhanced ...
Context I decided to reprise my commentary on Oracle RAC and the gv$ views after reading Patrick’s comments on my ...
You can choose a DBID when you rename your Oracle database. This is probably a bad, unsupported, and useless idea. I ...
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 ...
This sixth post describes how to remove a node from a 10.2 RAC cluster in silent mode. It differs from the associated ...
ASM is definitely one of the coolest technologies inside the Oracle Database. On the other hand, the ability of the ...
If you don’t want to deal with missteps, I recommend that you test your standby database to facilitate the failover or ...
Background We hit an ORA-01450 error today trying to do online rebuild for an index in an unusable state. This was a ...
Background Have you ever wanted to know where exactly in a datafile segments are placed? Have you ever wondered just ...
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 ...
In the following SQL*Plus output… SQL> select sum(tran_sum), count(*) 2 from trans; no rows selected …something is ...
According to wikipedia, “The rack is a medieval torture . . . which induces excruciating pain as the victim’s joints ...
This has been discussed before by my colleague Paul Moen in his article on Oracle standby recovery rate monitoring, but ...
About once a week, our team gets a request from the server admins to provide some information on why a database server ...
Update 21-Sep-2011: It’s definitely was a bug in an early 11g release. As cp command does work in the latest release. ...
I’ve recently moved to Ubuntu Linux, and this post describes my attempt to play around with Oracle ASM on Ubuntu. For ...
I got the idea for this article when one of our clients complained that their server’s performance was degrading during ...
I do realize that for most of you, there may be nothing new about the dbms_sys_sql package knowledge of it has been ...
Today I found some interesting software pieces available for download from Oracle TechNet. “Oracle Outside In ...
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 ...
This post is the first of a series of ten posts that will explore some of the Oracle Universal Installer (OUI), Network ...
Recreating the Voting disk may not be as easy as written in Metalink. If you work with RAC, you know about Metalink ...
In SQL Server Replication, a regular check is getting the number of undistributed commands for a transactional ...
Disclaimer: In most countries, looking at user passwords is illegal. Never try what is written below on a system that ...
This post is for those who think Consistent Gets is the only thing that matters. It’s not. That’s why Statspack and AWR ...
Back in April I was at COLLABORATE 08 and delivered a presentation on 11g — Oracle 11g New Features Out of the Box, ...
Last Friday, a customer paged me to say that they could not open an Oracle 8.0.5 database after the RAID array crashed. ...