原创 FLASHBACK INSTEAD OF DELAYING APPLYING OF LOGS ON STANDBY
If you have multiple standby sites, you may utilize the DELAY option in D
原创 Query the Oracle Alert Log using SQL commands
There are often times when you want to know what has been recorded in the database’s alert log, but may not want to or
原创 11g Active Standby Database Automatic Block Corruption Repair
In addition to the real time query capability of the 11g Active Data Guard feature, we can also add to our high availab
原创 RMAN Troubleshooting Catalog Performance Issues
This note discusses what to look for when queries against the RMAN repos
原创 Oracle RAC Performance and Tuning specially gc cr multi block request wait
LMS process called as Lock Manager Server Process , also called the GCS (G
原创 11g Release 2 Rolling Upgrade using Transient Logical Standby database
This note illustrates how we can perform a rolling upgrade from Oracle 11g Release 1 to Oracle 11g Release 2 using a
原创 Find statements that do not use bind variables
Using different sql statement where only some parameters differs (also known as not using bind variables) is know as t
原创 Restoring Optimizer Statistics
In some cases we may find that gathering fresh statistics has led to the optimizer executing sub-optimal execution p
原创 Using the AWR History Tables to compare performance
Using the DBA_HIST AWR history tables, we can compare the top wait events between different days or different time peri
原创 How to Backup Different Release Databases with the Same Catalog Database
The purpose of this article is to explain how to set up different catalo
原创 Changing the database characterset from US7ASCII to WE8MSWIN1252
This note looks at the procedure for changing the characterset of a 10g
原创 Downgrading a failed 11g Release 2 Upgrade - the easy way
One of the best practices before performing any database upgrade is to tak
原创 Upgrading to Oracle Database 10g
Oracle has made the process of upgrading from Oracle8i or Oracle9idataba
原创 Using TUNE_MVIEW and EXPLAIN_REWRITE to enable us to tune MV Fast Refreshes and Query Rewrites
We can use the DBMS_MVIEW.EXPLAIN_REWRITE package (which was first introd
原创 Monitor Data Guard Log Shipping
Note: This query needs to be run on the Primary database. SET PAGESIZE 124 COL DB_NAME FORMAT A8 COL HOSTNAME FORMAT A1