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		<title>11.2 Oracle Restart &#8211; Changing Hostname</title>
		<link>http://oraganism.wordpress.com/2009/12/20/11-2-changing-hostname/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Nash</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Oracle Restart]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has taken me a good deal longer that I would have expected to change the hostname on some cloned VMs that are home to Oracle 11.2 databases running on ASM with Oracle Restart.
I was clearly not alone in thinking that it would just be a case of running localconfig delete/localconfig add, as I have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oraganism.wordpress.com&blog=6580652&post=506&subd=oraganism&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Drop Yourself</title>
		<link>http://oraganism.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/drop-yourself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:49:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Nash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oracle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drop user]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This slightly odd little quirk interested me so I thought I&#8217;d do a quick post&#8230; It is just something that I hadn&#8217;t considered before.
Create a DBA user:

SYS@xe&#62; create user dba_user identified by basic_pass;

User created.

SYS@xe&#62; grant dba to dba_user;

Grant succeeded.


Create a SYSDBA user:

SYS@xe&#62; create user sysdba_user identified by basic_pass;

User created.

SYS@xe&#62; grant sysdba to sysdba_user;

Grant succeeded.


Connect as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oraganism.wordpress.com&blog=6580652&post=494&subd=oraganism&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Create a Database Link in Another User&#8217;s Schema</title>
		<link>http://oraganism.wordpress.com/2009/12/02/how-to-create-a-database-link-in-another-users-schema/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Johnson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oracle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[database link]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[definer rights]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I saw a post recently describing how to create a database link in another user&#8217;s schema. I wanted to post an alternative method so created this post in order to refer to in a comment on the original post. The original post demonstrates how to hijack a user account&#8217;s password temporarily, which is a useful [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oraganism.wordpress.com&blog=6580652&post=475&subd=oraganism&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Using an Index to Shortcut a MIN/MAX Aggregate &#8211; Part 2</title>
		<link>http://oraganism.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/using-an-index-to-shortcut-a-minmax-aggregate-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Johnson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oracle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[index]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[min/max]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve previously commented about the Index Scan MIN/MAX optimisation. My description of this operation from that post is below:

the optimiser can take a shortcut in satisfying a MIN or MAX aggregate by plucking the first or last value from the index, thus avoiding scanning the whole segment

I&#8217;ve been meaning to revisit and define this a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oraganism.wordpress.com&blog=6580652&post=449&subd=oraganism&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Converting Control Files to be Oracle Managed Files</title>
		<link>http://oraganism.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/converting-control-files-to-be-oracle-managed-files/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Neil Johnson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oracle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Control Files]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[No bombshells in this post &#8211; just a little task I&#8217;d not come across before and a complaint at the end.
On a test 10.2.0.4 database at home I have 2 control files, one in the DB_CREATE_FILE_DEST and one in the DB_RECOVERY_FILE_DEST as can be seen below:

NAME
--------------------------------------------------------------------
/u01/oradata/ORCL1/controlfile/o1_mf_5h1bxxg0_.ctl
/u01/app/oracle/flash_recovery_area/ORCL1/controlfile/o1_mf_5h1bxy2m_.ctl

During a bit of testing too mundane to go into [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oraganism.wordpress.com&blog=6580652&post=418&subd=oraganism&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CLUSTER_DATABASE=FALSE</title>
		<link>http://oraganism.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/cluster_databasefalse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:22:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Nash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oracle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CLUSTER_DATABASE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CLUSTER_DATABASE_INSTANCES]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I recently encountered a procedure that stated:
Set CLUSTER_DATABASE=FALSE
Set CLUSTER_DATABASE_INSTANCES=1
At that point I stopped for a second to wonder if the second parameter was required&#8230; It seems logical that if the database is not in a cluster then you wouldn&#8217;t need to tell Oracle how many database are in the cluster&#8230;
I didn&#8217;t have opportunity to test [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oraganism.wordpress.com&blog=6580652&post=404&subd=oraganism&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle OpenWorld &#8211; First Keynote</title>
		<link>http://oraganism.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/oracle-openworld-first-keynote/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Nash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oracle]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At the end of a busy first day at Oracle OpenWorld 2009 I took myself along to the first keynote presentation &#8220;Extreme Innovation&#8221;. I wasn&#8217;t sure if it would be worth going to what is clearly focused on marketing and customer relations rather than technical education, but it was&#8230;
The number of people, size of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oraganism.wordpress.com&blog=6580652&post=400&subd=oraganism&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spoofing V$SESSION.OSUSER</title>
		<link>http://oraganism.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/spoofing-vsession-osuser/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:36:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pawel Krol</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oracle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[auditing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Java]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[OSUSER]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://oraganism.wordpress.com/?p=323</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In order to audit users activity in a database we need the ability to uniquely identify every individual user. The easiest way of course is to create every user and individual user account and use it for auditing purposes. But what if for whatever reason using individual database user accounts is difficult to implement, or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oraganism.wordpress.com&blog=6580652&post=323&subd=oraganism&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>11gR2 Installed and Looking Good</title>
		<link>http://oraganism.wordpress.com/2009/09/05/11gr2-installed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Nash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oracle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[11gR2]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick post to express my excitement about having 11gR2 up and running on a 8 disk ASM configuration including an ACFS mount point&#8230; Some people play with their Wii, I&#8217;m happy with an Oracle database and *nix OS!
Is that so wrong?
I particularly like the new installer, but then again I&#8217;ve only just started [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oraganism.wordpress.com&blog=6580652&post=320&subd=oraganism&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Grid Control with ASM</title>
		<link>http://oraganism.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/grid-control-with-asm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Nash</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oracle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ASM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grid Control]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A colleague recently hit a problem configuring Grid Control with a repository database that uses ASM.
You do not have sufficient privilege to write to the specified patch for tablespaces
He checked out MetaLink or, as I should say, &#8220;My Oracle Support&#8221; and found note 738445.1
&#8230; Now, I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;m misunderstanding what it is suggesting, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oraganism.wordpress.com&blog=6580652&post=297&subd=oraganism&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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