Monthly Archives: June 2013

Oracle 12c Release 1: New Features in a Nutshell

Posted on June 26, 2013 by Ronny Egner

Oracle 12c Release 1 has been released!   Yes, the new generation of Oracles new database platform has been released. You can download it from Oracle   Now as 12c Release 1 is release i am freed from the NDA … Continue reading →

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How to solve ‘ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [18062]’

Posted on June 25, 2013 by Ronny Egner

A few months back i accidently set my global database name to “null”. As a result the database crashed with “ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [18062]”: SQL> update global_name set global_name=null; SQL> commit;   Starting background process QMNC Fri Oct … Continue reading →

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/SYS/NEM0 or /SYS/NEM1 FAULTED after upgrade to Exadata version 11.2.3.2.x

Posted on June 22, 2013 by Ronny Egner

During an Exadata upgrade at a customer the NEM module suddenly faulted after completing the compute node server upgrade. Checking the Hardware and Firmware compatibility yielded a message similar to: Firmware not supported. Required Version: NEM 5.7.0.0 To chec the … Continue reading →

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Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.8: Multipathed disk partitions are not discovered properly

Posted on June 20, 2013 by Ronny Egner

I just came accross a situation where multipathed devices were not discovered correctly. The device itself was discovered but the disks partitions were missing. It turned out there are two bugs in OEL 5.8. The first one is related to … Continue reading →

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