Tag Archives: 10g

Exadata, You Bully !

Yesterday I was reviewing a presentation and had an “aha” moment. In one case, results were being compared between technologies that were at about the same currency. In another case comparisons were being done between brand new spanking technology — and systems that were many years old. This morning I again came face to face [...] Continue reading

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Recording Database Size.

A user asks “I would like to check the growth of a particular tablespace on the database for a month or so, do you perhaps, have a script that can assist.” If you have no process capturing the size of … Continue reading

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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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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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Tracing by module.

Tracing by module. A client required to run a trace on an application connecting to the database. dbms_monitor in 10g does not allow tracing by module without a service name. Here’s a work around.

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Unsupported OS and database.

I had metalink in the health warnings inform me on OCM 10.3.2 that my AIX 5.3 and oracle 10.2.0.4 were not certified. I checked with note 957549.1 and it told me it was !!!

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Flashback Versions Query.

Oracle 10 r1 introduced the ability to query data in a table historically from the undo tablespace.This allowed us to view the data in a table and the changes over time, as well as the time and date that the … Continue reading

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Refreshing a Physical Standby.

The client opened the standby database without stopping the primary. This destroys the dataguard setup. Here’s where I perform a refresh.

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Create a database, quick…

Create a database, quick…

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Running Remote Diagnostic Agent (RDA) version 415

Using RDA, version 415.

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