Category Archives: Oracle in general

ACFS Snapshots

This is a short article about ACFS and the acfs snapshots feature – a new 11g Release 2 feature: How to create, work with and drop a snapshot. ACFS is the ASM Cluster File System and ships with Oracle 11g … Continue reading

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Oracle database and operating support matrix

The following matrix shows a matrix of operating systems, database version and certification status. All information is taken from the database documentation and information freely available on the internet (e.g. oracle forums, blogs). The information is structured first into operating … Continue reading

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Using data pump to export and import data using the network mode feature

Data Pump is a great improvement of the old fashioned export and import utility. Data Pump is available since 10g Release 2 and offers some nice new features, for instance a API to be used to start exports and imports … Continue reading

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How to copy schema stats from one schema to another schema

The following post is a short description how to copy schema statistics from one schema to another. Basically there are two methods for doing this: using DBMS_STATS or using Data Pump This is especially useful when doing large data transfers … Continue reading

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Calculate required kernel parameters for running Oracle 11g Release 2 on Linux

The following is a short guide on how to calculate the required kernel parameters for running Oracle 11g Release 2 database on Linux. In addition to that i add some parameters recommended by myself. Note that for running Oracle Grid … Continue reading

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ASM resilvering – or – how to recover your crashed cluster

In this and the following posts i will perform some crash and recover scenarios and show how to recover the cluster successfully. At the moment the following tests are planned and will be published during the next days: suddenly turning … Continue reading

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ASM resilvering – or – how to recover your crashed cluster – Test no 5

In this post we will reproduce a more common scenario: We will forcefully remove the asm disk device from the operating system. This simulates common errors like a crashed storage system or some kind of interrupted connectivity (cable plugged, power … Continue reading

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Backing up your system configuration

When backing up servers with any kind of backup software you will most certainly backup your data. But how about the system configuration? When restoring a system from scratch do you know how big the disks were, what partition sizes, … Continue reading

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Oracle on linux – yes of course – but what linux?

There is a discussion from December 2008 what Linux (SLES vs. Red vHat vs. Oracle Enterprise Linux) to use for running oracle on Linux by Yann Neuhaus. You can read his post here. After nearly one year i wanted to … Continue reading

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ORA-01555 (snapshot too old) error although undo_retention set to a high value

The past week i had a argumentation with a colleague of mine on the behavior of the parameter undo_retention in 10g. He stated in 10g undo_retention determines the lower number of seconds oracle keeps the undo records. If there is … Continue reading

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