Three Reasons To Use Bigfile Tablespaces
September 5, 2019Summer is almost over, kids go back to school, we go back to work, and settle back into our usual… Continue Reading
Category: Database
What To Do When The Export Fails With ORA-01466?
August 7, 2019The nightly backup job you have scheduled for your database, the datapump export job, starts failing with the following error:… Continue Reading
What Backup Jobs Are Currently Running
July 24, 2019You’ve planned to do some maintenance for the RMAN catalog, which would result in an outage to the RMAN catalog.… Continue Reading
How To Use Datapump Between Different Database Releases
July 17, 2019Imagine that you are asked to provide a datapump export of your database which is to be imported somewhere else.… Continue Reading
Oracle’s Recycle Bin: Security Considerations
July 10, 2019I planned last week’s post to be the last one on the recycle bin. And then I got a nice… Continue Reading
Oracle’s Recycle Bin – Part 2
July 3, 2019Last week we explored the purpose of the recycle bin, what goes into the recycle bin and how to bypass… Continue Reading
Working With Oracle’s Recycle Bin
June 27, 2019One of the greatest things that Oracle added to its database, in version 10g, was the recycle bin. What I… Continue Reading
How To Fix ORA-31600 During Import Datapump
June 12, 2019One day I was trying to run an import datapump job, and it kept failing. The error was pointing to… Continue Reading
Understanding Why ORA-04021 TIMEOUT OCCURRED WHILE WAITING TO LOCK OBJECT Happens
June 6, 2019One of my readers asked me if I could write about locking and blocking in the database, more specifically about… Continue Reading
Step By Step Example Of Working With DBMS_ERRLOG
May 22, 2019Last week I showed you a cool tool available since 10.2.0.1, that not every DBA is aware of. I was… Continue Reading