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Saturday January 28th 2012

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Get Upgrading: Upgrade to Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c

Get Upgrading: Upgrade to Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c

This post describes the steps to upgrade an existing 11g Enterprise Manager Grid Control (11.1.0.1.0) to 12c [Read More]

Cluster SSH tool Utility

Cluster SSH tool Utility

Many times you come across scenario’s when you wish to open multiple ssh windows and execute same commands.e.g [Read More]

11g: Multiple failed login attempt can block New Application connections

In Oracle database 11g, a new feature/enhancement has potential of bringing down the application due to multiple [Read More]

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10g

10gR2 Silent Install with 11gr2 CRS fails

I was trying to perform a 10.2 silent install with 11gR2 CRS. While doing pre-checks installer failed with following error Check complete: Failed <<<< Problem: The 'active' version of Oracle Clusterware is not 10g Release 2 (10.2). Recommendation: You must upgrade all nodes of the cluster to Oracle Clusterware 10g Release 2. If you have [Read More]

11g

11g: Multiple failed login attempt can block New Application connections

In Oracle database 11g, a new feature/enhancement has potential of bringing down the application due to multiple sessions hitting database with wrong password. As per [Read More]

Oracle Critical Patch Update January 2012

I guess most of us having My Oracle Support have got email from Oracle mentioning that Critical Patch Update January 2012 has been released. Main reason behind this is [Read More]

User Sessions stuck on resmgr:cpu quantum wait event

We were experiencing lot of session getting stuck on resmgr:cpu quantum in our database. In fact at a time we had 70 sessions which were stuck on this wait event and our [Read More]

GRID

Get Upgrading: Upgrade to Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c

This post describes the steps to upgrade an existing 11g Enterprise Manager Grid Control (11.1.0.1.0) to 12c (12.1.0.1.0). The Complete Upgrade process will be carried out under 3 different stages: 1. Patch existing 11g OMS to get the 12c upgrade console. 2. Deploy and Configure 12c agents. 3. Upgrade 11g OMS to 12c. The approach used [Read More]

Performance

Optimizer Choosing Nested-Loop Joins Instead of Hash-Joins

In one of my databases, one application query suddenly started to pick Nested-Loop joins [Read More]

Plan Stability using Sql Profiles and SQL Plan Management

PLAN STABILITY How many times you have noticed a query using Index X when you wanted it [Read More]

V$SQL_SHARED_CURSOR in 11.2.0.2

Oracle 11.2.0.2 has introduced new column “REASON” to V$SQL_SHARED_CURSORS. I [Read More]

Featured

Get Upgrading: Upgrade to Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c

Get Upgrading: Upgrade to Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c

This post describes the steps to upgrade an existing 11g Enterprise Manager Grid Control (11.1.0.1.0) to 12c (12.1.0.1.0). The Complete Upgrade process will be carried out under 3 different stages: 1. Patch existing 11g OMS to get the 12c upgrade console. 2. Deploy and [Read More]

Upgrading Grid Infrastructure 11.2.0.1 to 11.2.0.2 on RHEL4

Upgrading Grid Infrastructure 11.2.0.1 to 11.2.0.2 on RHEL4

11.2.0.2 Patchset was released few days back. I decided to upgrade a test RAC database to 11.2.0.2 yesterday and was able [Read More]

11gR2: Steps to Rename ASM Diskgroup with DB files

11gR2 introduced renamedg utility to rename diskgroups. I would discuss renaming a diskgroup on a Standalone Grid [Read More]

11gR2: Monitoring Real Time SQL Plan Execution from Oracle Enterprise Manager

11gR2: Monitoring Real Time SQL Plan Execution from Oracle Enterprise Manager

Ever since 11gR2 has been released, it has created a lot of buzz in Oracle Blogosphere with various posts on 11g Release 2 [Read More]

Recent Comments

  • User AvatarSaurabh Sood { @Ganesh: The global stats were up-to-date for both the databases, though I did not check the col stats. But the automated gather_stats_job ran next day... } – Jan 21, 8:40 AM
  • User AvatarGanesh { Verify DBA_TAB_COL_STATISTICS in both database for those tables to get information on histograms. select owner,job_name,schedule_name,enabled,state,last_start_date from DBA_SCHEDULER_JOBS } – Jan 20, 10:17 AM
  • User AvatarGanesh { Hope you have checked the global stats on those tables } – Jan 20, 9:07 AM
  • User AvatarAmit { Thanks Suvv and Anand for your comments... } – Jan 20, 9:00 AM
  • User Avatarmdinh { I am curious if you find anything. Having almost identical issues, CBO chose MJ vs HJ. } – Jan 20, 5:37 AM
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