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ISS-Earth Flyover at Night

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Blackouts with EMCTL

I have a need to take down a database to perform a cold snapshot of the database’s files. This database is monitored by Enterprise Manager and I do not want to receive an alert when the database is down. So I need to figure out how to start a blackout in Enterprise Manager from the …

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Installing Agent11g on Windows

Normally, to install the 11g version of the Oracle agent for Grid Control, one would push the agent from Grid Control the database server. However, when pushing from Grid Control to a Windows server, we receive an error telling us that Windows does not have SSH running on port 22. Windows servers normally do not …

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OEL6 and Oracle 11g

I’ve never quite understood why Oracle released their own OS, Oracle Enterprise Linux 6 and then waited over a year for their flagship product, Oracle RDBMS 11g, to be certified on that OS platform. But the wait is over. You can now safely run Oracle 11g on Oracle Linux 6. But wait…no so fast…While you …

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ORA-9925

Recently, I was trying fix the creation a dev database from a snapshot of our production database. To do that, we mount up the snapshot datafiles, create a new controlfile, and apply recovery and then open with resetlogs. This is pretty standard fare for us however, this time, the person performing the database refresh noted …

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LISTAGG Function

I had a requirement to rows of values in a comma-delimited list. I was thinking I would have to use some sort of arcane SQL functions or resort to PL/SQL when I came across a new function in Oracle 11.2 which fits the bill, namely LISTAGG. Here is some sample data that I was able …

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Earth View from Space

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Installing RAC for a Database with Datafiles

Not that long ago, I needed to upgrade Oracle Clusterware and RDBMS from 11.1.0.7 to 11.2.0.2. I have tons of experience with the Oracle RDBMS software, but I suspect that I am like most DBA’s in that my Clusterware experience is not at the same level as my RDBMS experience. So while I had no …

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ORA-29902 and 28578 with ST_GEOMETRY

I was working on a sticky problem of which I had a hard time resolving so I figured I would write up my issue and my solution. Recently, we were running a ST_INTERSECTION query on a spatial dataset using ESRI SDE’s ST_GEOMETRY. In Oracle 11.2.0.2, the ST_INTERSECTION query hit the following error stack: ORA-29902: error …

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Standby Audit Dest Full

I recently ran into an issue where my Standby audit destination (adump) became full. The disk was not full. Rather, there were too many files in the directory. I did “ls -l | wc -l” and it came back with more than 1 million files in the directory. And it took a very long time …

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