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	<title>EveryDay Practical Solutions for an Oracle&#124;SQL Server DBA &#187; General DBA Tasks</title>
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	<description>This is my (Sagar PATIL ) blog to list day to day issues</description>
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		<title>Building Tablespace Growth Report from Grid Data</title>
		<link>http://www.oracledbasupport.co.uk/building-tablespace-growth-report-from-grid-data/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 12:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sagar Patil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General DBA Tasks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Building Tablespace Growth Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[graphs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grid Data Use SQL Query]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grid sysman]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.oracledbasupport.co.uk/?p=5380</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Use SQL Query below at Grid sysman database to locate growth of tablespaces over time. The returned results data could be used under EXCEL to generate graphs. SELECT   target_name, KEY_VALUE, ROLLUP_TIMESTAMP, METRIC_COLUMN, sample_count, ROUND (AVERAGE / 1000) Allocted_GB FROM   sysman.MGMT$METRIC_DAILY WHERE       metric_name = 'tbspAllocation' AND LOWER (TARGET_NAME) LIKE '%Oracle_db_name%' AND KEY_VALUE = 'DATA' AND LOWER [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle Roles and Users audit report</title>
		<link>http://www.oracledbasupport.co.uk/oracle-roles-and-users-audit-report/</link>
		<comments>http://www.oracledbasupport.co.uk/oracle-roles-and-users-audit-report/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sagar Patil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General DBA Tasks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PLSQL Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DBA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[error]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[line]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[utl]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.oracledbasupport.co.uk/?p=5368</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have often used following procedure to create list of roles &#38; corresponding users mapped into it. This was then used to email business owners as well as for user accesss auditing. -- Package Name : users_granted_role -- This package was created to spool user and their respective Privs from oracle data Dictionary. CREATE OR [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shell Script to Generate Daily/Weekly AWR reports (Email)</title>
		<link>http://www.oracledbasupport.co.uk/shell-script-to-generate-dailyweekly-awr-reports/</link>
		<comments>http://www.oracledbasupport.co.uk/shell-script-to-generate-dailyweekly-awr-reports/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 08:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sagar Patil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General DBA Tasks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scripts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AWR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[configuration file]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[File]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Home]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OCt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Script]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.oracledbasupport.co.uk/?p=2666</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Create  .run_awr with following details  : "TNS-connect-string : recipient-list : hrs of AWR snapshot" [oracle@ ~]$ cat .run_awr prod:root@oracledbasupport.co.uk:11 I added this script in my crontab for a daily emails: ########## Daily Export of AWR reports 02 18 * * * /home/oracle/.awr_daily.sh  &#62;&#62; /home/oracle/awr.log 2&#62;&#38;1 [oracle@awr_reports]$ ls -lrt -rw-r--r-- 1 oracle oracle 315104 Oct 26 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dataguard : Applying CPU(Cirital Patch Update) to Dataguard Environment</title>
		<link>http://www.oracledbasupport.co.uk/applying-cpucirital-patch-update-to-oracle-dataguard-environment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.oracledbasupport.co.uk/applying-cpucirital-patch-update-to-oracle-dataguard-environment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 20:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sagar Patil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dataguard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General DBA Tasks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CPU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[log sequence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SQL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Standby]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[standby database]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.oracledbasupport.co.uk/?p=2463</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have One Primary database and 2 Physical Standby Databases under RHEL 5. Here is a process to patch them with JULY CPU update &#8220;Critical Patch Update Release 10.2.0.4 for UNIX Released July 13, 2010&#8243; At Primary Site SQL&#62; show parameter dg_broker_start NAME                                 TYPE        VALUE &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; dg_broker_start                      boolean     TRUE SQL&#62; alter system switch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Script to Auto Start Primary/Standby Database under Linux</title>
		<link>http://www.oracledbasupport.co.uk/script-to-auto-start-primarystandby-database-under-linux/</link>
		<comments>http://www.oracledbasupport.co.uk/script-to-auto-start-primarystandby-database-under-linux/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sagar Patil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General DBA Tasks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Database]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dbstart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Listener]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oracle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oracle database]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OWNER]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Start]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[startup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the Oracle]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.oracledbasupport.co.uk/?p=2217</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The following represents the Oracle recommended method for automating database startup and shutdown of Oracle 10g instances. Once the instance is created, edit the &#8220;/etc/oratab&#8221; file setting the restart flag for each instance to &#8216;Y&#8217;. dev:/u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0:N Change N to Y dev:/u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0:Y Next, create a file called &#8220;/etc/init.d/dbora&#8221; as the root user, containing the following. #!/bin/sh [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trend Oracle  log history : How much archives created per day/week or in an hour</title>
		<link>http://www.oracledbasupport.co.uk/trend-oracle-log-history/</link>
		<comments>http://www.oracledbasupport.co.uk/trend-oracle-log-history/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 09:38:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sagar Patil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General DBA Tasks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BYTES]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daily]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DECODE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[size]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TO_CHAR]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.oracledbasupport.co.uk/?p=2031</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Count of archive files and size of the redo generated by day SELECT   A.*, ROUND (A.Count# * B.AVG# / 1024 / 1024) Daily_Avg_Mb   FROM   (  SELECT   TO_CHAR (First_Time, 'YYYY-MM-DD') DAY,                      COUNT (1) Count#,                      MIN (RECID) Min#,                      MAX (RECID) Max#               FROM   v$log_history           GROUP BY   TO_CHAR (First_Time, 'YYYY-MM-DD')           ORDER BY   [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is Oracle OPatch, How to use OPatch &amp; List patches</title>
		<link>http://www.oracledbasupport.co.uk/what-is-opatch-how-to-use-opatch-list-patches/</link>
		<comments>http://www.oracledbasupport.co.uk/what-is-opatch-how-to-use-opatch-list-patches/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sagar Patil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General DBA Tasks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Utilties]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Home]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interim Patch Installer]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.oracledbasupport.co.uk/?p=1781</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Patch is an Oracle supplied utility to assist you with the process of applying interim patches to Oracle&#8217;s software. OPatch is a Java-based utility which requires the Oracle Universal Installer to be installed. It is platform independent and runs on all supported operating systems. OPatch supports the following: * Applying an interim patch. * Rolling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Database hanging due to TX-Transaction (row lock contention)</title>
		<link>http://www.oracledbasupport.co.uk/database-hanging-due-to-tx-transaction-row-lock-contention/</link>
		<comments>http://www.oracledbasupport.co.uk/database-hanging-due-to-tx-transaction-row-lock-contention/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sagar Patil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General DBA Tasks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tuning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[How to diagnose "row lock contention" in Statspack repo]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.oracledbasupport.co.uk/2009/11/database-hanging-due-to-tx-transaction-row-lock-contention/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My Statspack has following details. Enqueue activity DB/Inst: Snaps: 1791-1808 -&#62; only enqueues with waits are shown -&#62; Enqueue stats gathered prior to 10g should not be compared with 10g data -&#62; ordered by Wait Time desc, Waits desc Above list indicates oracle was waiting about 4 secs to acquire a lock. Let&#8217;s look at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Identifying Blocking Locks/ Contention &amp; Resolving Database Hanging Issue</title>
		<link>http://www.oracledbasupport.co.uk/identifying-blocking-locks-contention-resolving-database-hanging-issue/</link>
		<comments>http://www.oracledbasupport.co.uk/identifying-blocking-locks-contention-resolving-database-hanging-issue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sagar Patil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General DBA Tasks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tuning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dump]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oracle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oracle support]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Smon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waits]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.oracledbasupport.co.uk/2009/11/identifying-latch-contention/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my 10.2.0.1 database was hanging despite allocating ample opf resources. The CPU, Memory,Disk accesses were normal but under heavy load server would freeze for no valid reason. I had to raise TAR with Oracle. My Statspack report had following details &#8212;&#8211;Enqueue activity DB/Inst: -&#62; only enqueues with waits are shown -&#62; Enqueue stats [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Oracle 10g Scheduler</title>
		<link>http://www.oracledbasupport.co.uk/the-oracle-10g-scheduler/</link>
		<comments>http://www.oracledbasupport.co.uk/the-oracle-10g-scheduler/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sagar Patil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General DBA Tasks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PLSQL Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Oracle 10g Scheduler]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.oracledbasupport.co.uk/2009/10/the-oracle-10g-scheduler/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Oracle 10g&#8217;s DBMS_SCHEDULER provides significant improvements over DBMS_JOB for scheduling jobs and tasks. Let&#8217;s take an overview of new functionalities that the Oracle Scheduler provides for DBAs. There are three basic components to DBMS scheduler: Programs,Schedules &#38; Jobs Programs : A program defines what Scheduler will execute. A program&#8217;s attributes include its name, its type [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best way to check patches on Metalink</title>
		<link>http://www.oracledbasupport.co.uk/best-way-to-check-patches-on-metalink/</link>
		<comments>http://www.oracledbasupport.co.uk/best-way-to-check-patches-on-metalink/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sagar Patil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[E Business Suite]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General DBA Tasks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Packs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[product]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suite]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Type]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[way]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.oracledbasupport.co.uk/2009/02/25/best-way-to-check-patches-on-metalink/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[http://metalink.oracle.com Using Patches -&#62; simple search with following details Product and Family : E-Business Suite Release : Applications R12 Patch Type : Any Classification : Recommended Plateform or Language : Select Relevant Click on Go button. This search will show recommended patches. OR Click on Top right hand Side &#8220;Patches&#8221; , select &#8220;Quick Links to: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Write a Message to the Alert Log</title>
		<link>http://www.oracledbasupport.co.uk/write-a-message-to-the-alert-log/</link>
		<comments>http://www.oracledbasupport.co.uk/write-a-message-to-the-alert-log/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:58:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sagar Patil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General DBA Tasks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Char]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[KSDWRT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Message]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ORA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SYSTEM]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.oracledbasupport.co.uk/2009/02/18/write-a-message-to-the-alert-log/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One can use UTL_FILE else OS editors/utilities. The best is using undocumented KSDWRT procedure of the DBMS_SYSTEM package. This procedure has two parameters,  The first one must be &#8220;2&#8243; to write to the alert file,  the second one is the message you want to write. execute sys.dbms_system.ksdwrt(2,to_char(sysdate)&#124;&#124; &#8216; &#8212; &#8216;); I used it to write [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle RDBMS Release Nomenclature</title>
		<link>http://www.oracledbasupport.co.uk/how-oracle-release-nomenclature/</link>
		<comments>http://www.oracledbasupport.co.uk/how-oracle-release-nomenclature/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:51:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sagar Patil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General DBA Tasks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Installation,Upgrade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patching,Cloning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Database]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Database Maintenance Release Number]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nomenclature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[number]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oracle RDBMS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patch Set Number]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RDBMS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Release Number]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Version Number]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.oracledbasupport.co.uk/2009/02/12/how-oracle-release-nomenclature/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Before 9i 8 RDBMS Version Number 1 New Features Release Number 5 Maintenance&#160; Release Number 1 Generic Patch Set Number 2 Platform Patch Set Number &#160; After 9i&#160; 9 RDBMS Version Number 2 Database Maintenance&#160; Release Number 0 Application Server Release Number 1 Component Specific Release Number 2 Platform Specific Release Number]]></description>
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		<title>Display execution plan in SQLPLUS &#8211; plan_table script</title>
		<link>http://www.oracledbasupport.co.uk/plan_table/</link>
		<comments>http://www.oracledbasupport.co.uk/plan_table/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sagar Patil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General DBA Tasks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tuning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[number]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OBJECT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parallel execution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parent]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[table]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[varchar2]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.oracledbasupport.co.uk/2008/12/17/plan_table/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was trying to execute following SQL through client side tools and found network delays were contributing to the SQl execution times. This SQL normally returns in less than 50 millisec and now taking more than 700 Msec. I am addicted to TOAD -TORA GUI created Execution plans and was looking for a an easy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Display partition information for a specified index</title>
		<link>http://www.oracledbasupport.co.uk/displays-partition-information-for-specified-index-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.oracledbasupport.co.uk/displays-partition-information-for-specified-index-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sagar Patil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General DBA Tasks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Index Tuning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tuning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DBA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[index]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[index Displays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[partitions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rebuild]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SET VERIFY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WHERE]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Displays partition information for the specified index, or all indexes. SET LINESIZE 500 SET PAGESIZE 1000 SET FEEDBACK OFF SET VERIFY OFFSELECT a.index_name, a.partition_name, a.tablespace_name, a.initial_extent, a.next_extent, a.pct_increase, a.num_rows FROM   dba_ind_partitions a WHERE  a.index_name  = Decode(&#8216;BRANCH_STATS_IX&#8217;,'ALL&#8217;,a.index_name,&#8217;BRANCH_STATS_IX&#8217;) ORDER BY a.index_name, a.partition_name; Replace &#8216;BRANCH_STATS_IX&#8217; with valid index_name select &#8216;Alter Index &#8216;&#124;&#124; index_owner &#124;&#124;&#8217;.'&#124;&#124;index_name &#124;&#124;&#8217; Rebuild Partition &#8216; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Undo Retention , Undo Optimization</title>
		<link>http://www.oracledbasupport.co.uk/undo-retention-undo-optimization-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sagar Patil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General DBA Tasks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tuning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[block]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BYTES]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RETENTION]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[status]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tablespace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[undo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[undo_retention parameter will not guarantee a RETENTION unless you define a RETENTION GUARANTEE CLAUSE on tablespace level Actual Undo Size SELECT   SUM (a.bytes) "UNDO_SIZE" FROM   v$datafile a, v$tablespace b, dba_tablespaces c WHERE       c.contents = 'UNDO' AND c.status = 'ONLINE' AND b.name = c.tablespace_name AND a.ts# = b.ts#; UNDO_SIZE &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- 209715200 Undo Blocks per Second SELECT   [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do I need to reorganise my table?</title>
		<link>http://www.oracledbasupport.co.uk/do-i-need-to-reorganise-my-tables/</link>
		<comments>http://www.oracledbasupport.co.uk/do-i-need-to-reorganise-my-tables/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sagar Patil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General DBA Tasks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tuning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[block]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[count]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[row chaining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ROWS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[thru]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VBAP]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a tricky question. I have explained here by using a 33GB SAP BW driving table called VBAP which needed a major work. At end I had to rebuild this table using Quest Shareplex. VBAP Table acquired 3,873,549 blocks = 30.2 GB in Space , The total number of rows were 15,900,000 So Rows per [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle Undocumented Parameters</title>
		<link>http://www.oracledbasupport.co.uk/oracle-undocumented-parameters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:43:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sagar Patil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General DBA Tasks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[block]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[buffers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cache]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[checkpoint]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[init]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[number]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TRUE value]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.oracledbasupport.co.uk/2008/11/12/oracle-undocumented-parameters/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[select ksppinm from x$ksppi where substr(ksppinm,1,1) = &#8216;_&#8217;; &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211; The following is a list of undocumented parameters. 1. _db_block_cache_protect On VMS, the DB_BLOCK_CACHE_PROTECT mechanism has been made much faster. During normal use, having it turned on shouldn&#8217;t be noticeable (the degradation is less than 1%). Developers who link non-share will need PSWAPM privilege to use [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ORA-00312: Message 312 not found; Solution</title>
		<link>http://www.oracledbasupport.co.uk/ora-00312-message-312-not-found-solution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.oracledbasupport.co.uk/ora-00312-message-312-not-found-solution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sagar Patil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General DBA Tasks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ENGLISH]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LANGUAGE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Message]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RDBMS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TERRITORY]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Applies to: Oracle Server &#8211; Enterprise Edition &#8211; Version: 9.2.0.6.0 This problem can occur on any platform. Symptoms When NLS_LANGUAGE is set to ENGLISH and NLS_TERRITORY is set to AUSTRALIA, the text related to Archival messages are not displayed. The following contents are shown in the Alert log : Errors in file /smartdi/d03/oracle/SMTRMAN/admin/bdump/smtrman_arc0_659582.trc: ORA-16014: Message [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flashback Query</title>
		<link>http://www.oracledbasupport.co.uk/flashback-query/</link>
		<comments>http://www.oracledbasupport.co.uk/flashback-query/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:36:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sagar Patil</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General DBA Tasks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tuning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EXECUTE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[number]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[query]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[undo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Oracle Flashback Query allows users to see a consistent view of the database as it was at a point in the past. This functionality allows comparative reporting over time and recovery from logical corruptions. Prerequisites Oracle Flashback Query can only be used if the server is configured to use Automatic Undo Management, rather than traditional [...]]]></description>
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