Monthly Archives: May 2010

Aggregate Query, with Many Columns.

Someone wanted to do an aggregation (sum) on a table with many columns and one join. This stops them using the table.* select clause, unless you re-organise it a little.

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ORA-00439: feature not enabled: Partitioning

This indicates that you are either using partitioning without having it installed, else you are on standard edition, where you are not allowed to use it.

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CPU Jan 2010 Forms Home Installation.

Had a conflict when applying path CPU Jan 2010 to an oracle forms installation. First complained about conflicts. Metalink resolved the problem for me.

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Errors in CPU 9352191 (CPUAPR2010) and PSU 9352164, which includes CPUAPR2010.

During installation, there could be errors during the catbundle execution or it’s rollback.

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Obtaining x rows dual.

Connect by Level. Someone asked how to obtain a list of dates in the future for a table which does not have data yet. Interesting investigation….. (Thanks to Bruno Vroman)

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emca -config dbcontrol 11g

Installing emca on 11g.

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ORA-19526: only one location allowed for parameter db_recovery_file_dest

ORA-19526: only one location allowed for parameter db_recovery_file_dest. Oracle 10g and 11g are supposed to allow multiple values in the db_recovery_file_dest, however this does not work and returns the above error. Here’s things I’ve found which cause this problem.

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