Aaron

Author's details

Name: Aaron Myers
Date registered: March 30, 2014
URL: https://www.balddba.com

Latest posts

  1. Ransomeware Attack — February 7, 2023
  2. RMAN table recovery error — May 20, 2022
  3. Getting and formatting index ddl — September 17, 2021
  4. pythonGit private repository — September 2, 2020
  5. cx_Oracle ORA-24418 — April 30, 2020

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Jun 02

ESXi Web UI

I run mainly on Macs, which means OS X. Unfortunately that means I don’t have access to the GUI of vmware. As of 6.0 U2, vmware has a very slick web UI built into it. Just look at the following article, all I had to do was ssh to my ESXi server and run: esxcli …

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Mar 29

ASM du -s

one of my biggest complaints about ASM is the lack of the ability to do the equivalent of “du -hs *” to view the size of all the directories. I found a little piece of shell script that does just this. It is extremely slow but it is very helpful! dg=RECO; for dir in $(asmcmd …

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Mar 08

HOTSOS In Texas!

I am currently in Texas at the HOTSOS Symposium. I look forward to this conference every year. There are some brilliant people here, and it is a great place to learn new things. Kerry Osborn did a great live presentation yesterday, can’t wait to get home and try some of this stuff out. Also saw …

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Feb 08

DBSNMP By Way Of EMCLI

Currently I am changing passwords in several hundred databases, not that uncommon of a task for any DBA. Unfortunately it is time to rotate the dbsnmp password. Usually I would log into OEM after changing the password and manually update the password in the monitoring configuration for each and every database. This is fine if …

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Nov 17

Where Are My Nodes?

I should mention the current setup is a 4 node RAC database with a dataguard managed standby comprised of a 3 node RAC database cluster. The current database version is 11.2.0.4 While writing a shell script today, I needed to know from connecting to a database in a cluster what all the related nodes were. This …

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Sep 18

Formatting SQL in Oracle

I was looking for a way to format the output from EXPAND_SQL_TEXT and came across this post. I would really rather have something in the database that I could do this with. I would prefer not to spool anything out, but it works very well. Just another SQL beautifier

Aug 10

Xlib: No protocol specified

While trying to connect to an AIX box, and start dbca, I got the following error Xlib: connection to “192.168.0.100:0.0” refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified This is an issue with Xming security. I changed the shortcut on my windows desktop to: “C:\Program Files (x86)\Xming\Xming.exe” :2 -clipboard -multiwindow -ac I was immediately able to …

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Jun 11

ORA-00904: “UTL_RAW”.”CAST_FROM_NUMBER”: invalid identifier

I have been migrating single instance databases to RAC databases and had several databases that filled up the diag directory spewing out alerts. There is a bug that can cause some of these, but in my case it was much simpler. Simple configuration mistakes The first error was due to the existance of a spfile …

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Mar 03

HOTSOS 2015

I am currently at the HOTSOS Symposium. This is my favorite conference of the year. The people here are incredibly smart, the presentations are very technical, and it is just a good time. I look forward to this conference all year. I have learned some great new things that I am looking forward to trying …

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Nov 14

Why Didn’t Oracle Export That?

Ever wonder where Oracle keeps track of objects that won’t be exported? select * from sys.ku_noexp_tab; This table contains a list of objects that will be ignored during an export.

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