Monthly Archives: October 2010

An introduction to TwinFin

What would be possible in your world if you had a database that could  use all of the information relevant to your analysis: as much business  history as you have; all telemetry data generated each day; every  customer action and interac… Continue reading

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Insufficient privileges purging scheduler logs.

Cannot purge the job history logs ? If you get insufficient privileges, you require the SCHEDULER_ADMIN role.

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ORA-02800: Requests timed out

I had a simple job to run, which failed. exec dbms_scheduler.run_job(‘CHECKJOB’); returned the following. ERROR at line 1:ORA-02800: Requests timed outORA-06512: at “SYS.DBMS_ISCHED”, line 150ORA-06512: at “SYS.DBMS_SCHEDULER”, line 441ORA-06512: at line 2

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Netezza Receives 2010 DMA Innovation Award

MARLBOROUGH, Mass., — October 26, 2010 — Netezza Corporation (NYSE: NZ), the global leader in data warehouse, analytic and monitoring appliances, has received honors from the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) for outstanding advancements in dire… Continue reading

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User cannot see package body.

A database user could not see the package body of another users package. Even with execute on the package granted, this still was not possible. That seemed odd, but here’s how oracle works it.

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Windows Agent will not start.

Lost communication with agent from Grid on Windows 2003 server. I was unable to communicate with the agent on a server. Note that the symptoms are nothing to do with the cause. EM displayed the following : Error Communication between … Continue reading

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Netezza Explain Plan

  Each query that is submitted to Netezza results in a corresponding query plan. These plans are kept under /nz/data/plans and the archived ones are located under /nz/kit/log/planshist on the Netezza host. Archived files are kept up to a certain number and are purged; something like 5000 files. To save them on a permanent basis, [...] Continue reading

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ExactTarget Hits Bullseye with Netezza’s TwinFin Appliance

Global Provider of Email and Interactive Marketing Solutions Uses Netezza to Enhance Targeting Precision and Increase Campaign Response Rates

MARLBOROUGH, Mass., — October 21, 2010 — Netezza Corporation (NYSE: NZ), the global leader in data war… Continue reading

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Database Backup from Scheduler.

I wanted to backup a database using an OS script, but scheduled from the database rather than from the OS. Here’s the setup for it.

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PL/SQL package SYS.DBMS_BACKUP_RESTORE version 10.02.00.02 in TARGET database is not current

Rman reported an interesting error. PL/SQL package SYS.DBMS_BACKUP_RESTORE version 10.02.00.02 in TARGET database is not current This occurs where the wrong rman version is used on a different version database. Here’s how it occured.

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