Category Archives: Parameters

Parameter Usage in Oracle

Inactive sessions in the database.

Following a conversation regarding inactive sessions and the process limitation on the database, this client was having connection failures to the database. What should be done regarding this ?

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Archived Redo Log Creation in the Flash Recovery Area

Archived Redo Log Creation in the Flash Recovery Area How do I create archived logs in the flash recovery area, or move my existing ones to the flash recovery area ?

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ALTER DATABASE ARCHIVELOG COMPRESS enable

This command SHOULD start compressing archivelogs written to remote and local destinations. That includes the local drive for archive logs. However, this command was not fully documented and released in oracle 11g, or 10g, except for the 10g beta documents, … Continue reading

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archive_lag_target

archive_lag_target

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active_instance_count

active_instance_count

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Using LOCAL_LISTENER

Local_Listener is used to tell the database not to register with the LISTENER on the host at port 1521, the default. You can change it as shown :

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Error 16047 creating remote archivelog file

Had errors with a physical standby. Here’s what the investigation revealed.

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AWR and Statistics_level

Came across an interesting link between the statistics_level and the AWR data collected. Very easy to mess up the SYSAUX tablespace…..

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SYSMAN tablespace grows excessively.

I had the sysman tablespace on a database grow to 22Gb and could not figure out why. Logged an SR for it and followed up with suprising results.

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Setting MAX_MEMORY and MAX_MEMORY_TARGET.

Defining Memory Limits in Oracle 11. Upgrading Oracle 10.2.0.4 to 11.1.0.7, we required to calculate the memory targets to allow automatic memory management to include SGA and PGA.

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