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Problem solving with DBMS_DATAPUMP
Yesterday I had a problem… I noticed that one of our overnight jobs was failing. The job in question is an ad-hoc tidy-up job, ran as needed when a performance metric for a specific query indicates...
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Oracle Data Files
I was looking at the contents of a tablespace recently – just the extents, not a block dump – with the intention of shrinking a couple of the associated datafiles (don’t ask why – the reason is both...
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Goldengate OGG-01223 (Version) Problem
Just implementing Goldengate between a platform I don’t understand, a Tandem/HP non-stop, and Oracle 11G R2 RAC. So, I spend the day trying to get it working, have all of the configuration seemingly...
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Online index problem – ORA-08104
So, you’re creating (or rebuilding) an index ONLINE on a busy system. Your session dies, or it becomes necessary to kill the command, you may find that Oracle does not (always manage to) automatically...
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The trouble with Timezones & Grid Infrastructure
When installing Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11.2 (and all other releases), you need to make sure that you have all of the server setting correct and to standard before you do the install. One that bit...
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SCAN listener logs – where are they?
These are a bit of a pain as their location isn’t intuitive. So to remind me where they are: Login to the server(s) as the grid owner and check the scan listener status. This will show you the location...
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