Monthly Archives: November 2010

Do you know “chopt” ?

Starting with Oracle 11g Release 2 there is a new tool called “chopt” which lets you enable or disable database features such as partitioning, olap and so on without the need to re-install the bianries. You can read about the … Continue reading

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How to restore an rman backup without any existing control files

This week a came across the following very interesting scenario: The customer made an RMAN online backup and saved it to an NFS location. Controlfile autobackup was on. During backup the backupset was written to that NFS location. The control … Continue reading

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