Mumbai – Free Performance Analysis Tool for Oracle Database

I found this tool via Karl Arao’s TiddlyWiki under the Performance Database Tools.  This free tool written by Marcus Mönnig called Mumbai has many nifty features focusing on data visualization including session profiling, alert & trace file viewing, 10046 tracing/viewing within the tool, etc. It also integrates with snapper and orasrp. Here are some introductory …

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Easy Connect (EZCONNECT) Naming Method with Instance Name

Oftentimes I use the Easy Connect (EZCONNECT) to connect to a new database just to quickly verify database connectivity. The syntax I usually use is as follows: CONNECT username/password@[//]host[:port][/service_name] CONNECT scott/tiger@host1-vip:1522/RACDB In RAC, this will connect to whatever instance based on the service’s load balancing goal. I just learned that with the 11g net services …

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RMAN Duplicate Failed – Need to Format Corrupt Block Not Part of Any Segment

When I tried to duplicate one of the databases using the RMAN duplicate, I’ve encountered the block corruption errors on the SYSAUX tablespace. The root cause of corruptions is still unknown to me. With further investigation, I’ve learned that the corrupt blocks do not belong to any objects. (The query used to identify them will …

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Upgrade APEX to 4.0.1 encounters “ORA-20011: Approximate NDV failed: ORA-08103: object no longer exists”

Few weeks back, we’ve upgraded multiple APEX installations (development, test and production) to new version 4.0.1 from the default version 3.0.1.00.12 in Oracle 11g R1. The upgrade (just running the apexins.sql) went well for all except one. We got a strange error during the last stage of installation. Performing Application Express component validation – please …

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Migration of the 11g R1 OCR and Voting disks to different paths when Cluster Ready Service (CRS) is off-line

During a new setup of our 11g R1 (11.1.0.7) on Solaris platform, initially the system is provided with only single path to disks (LUNs) on SAN. Later the sys admins would like to enable the multipathing. 🙁 Obviously, it is expected that the disk paths will be changed. This will not only affect the ASM …

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