{"id":93,"date":"2014-01-25T12:36:25","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T12:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dbafox.com\/?page_id=93"},"modified":"2017-09-05T09:13:05","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T09:13:05","slug":"oracle-articles","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dbafox.com\/?page_id=93","title":{"rendered":"Oracle Articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oracle.com\" title=\"Official Oracle website\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dbafox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/oracle-logo.png\" alt=\"oracle-logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dbafox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/oracle-logo.png 400w, https:\/\/dbafox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/oracle-logo-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A series of links to <\/p>\n<h2 style=\"display: inline;\">Oracle articles and documents<\/h2>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<h2>Oracle Wiki<\/h2>\n<p>&ldquo;a website for IT Professionals involved with Oracle database&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oracle-wiki.net\/start\" title=\"Oracle Wiki\" target=\"_blank\">Oracle Wiki<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Show High Water Mark Statistics<\/h3>\n<p>The Oracle data dictionary contains a view which shows high water mark values for specific Oracle features and other licesing-related metrics (like CPU_COUNT)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oracle-wiki.net\/startsqlhighwater\" title=\"Show High Water Mark Statistics\" target=\"_blank\">Show High Water Mark Statistics<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Oracle Dataguard<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dbafox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/maa-wp-11g-upgrades-made-easy-131972.pdf\" title=\"Oracle Software Investment Guide\" target=\"_blank\">Maximum Availability Architecture, rolling upgrades (pdf whitepaper October 2011)<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Oracle and SCOM<\/h2>\n<p>&ldquo;Oracle Management Connector for Microsoft SCOM enables customers who manage their data centers using Microsoft System Center Operations Manager(SCOM) to integrate with Oracle Enterprise Manager by enabling end-to-end event\/alert sharing&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oracle.com\/technetwork\/oem\/grid-control\/mgmt-connector-scom-159915.html\" title=\"Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control Management Connector for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager\" target=\"_blank\">Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control Management <em>Connector<\/em> for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oracle.com\/technetwork\/oem\/grid-control\/scom-ds-159969.pdf\" title=\"White paper for Oracle Grid Control and SCOM connector\" target=\"_blank\">White paper for Oracle Grid Control and SCOM connector<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is also possible to monitor Oracle databases with SCOM using the OLE DB management pack (the following link describes this solution). I have not personally tested this. Thanks to the author of the post (all credits are in the post)<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/stefanroth.net\/2012\/12\/05\/scom-2012-monitoring-oracle-database-ole-db-management-pack-template\/\" title=\"Monitor Oracle database with SCOM and OLE DB management pack\" target=\"_blank\">Monitor Oracle database with SCOM and OLE DB management pack<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>sqlplus<\/h2>\n<h3>define editor for sqlplus sessions (linux)<\/h3>\n<p style=\"color: blue; font-style:italic;\">\nDEFINE _EDITOR=gedit<br \/>\nor<br \/>\nDEFINE _EDITOR=vi<\/p>\n<p>(put it in $ORACLE_HOME\/sqlplus\/admin\/glogin.sql)<\/p>\n<p>You can also define it in your OS environment, before starting Sql*Plus<\/p>\n<p>$ export EDITOR=vi<br \/>\n$ sqlplus &#8230;.<br \/> <br \/>\nSQL> select * from dual;<br \/>\nSQL> edit &#09;&#09;<span style=\"color:green;\">&#8212; opens the defined editor inline so that the current command buffer can be edited<\/span><br \/>\nto make it permanent you can set it within the OS user&#8217;s profile (.bash_profile).<br \/>\n\n<\/p>\n<h2>Connecting from Windows to Linux to Manage Oracle databases on Linux<\/h2>\n<h3>MobaXterm<\/h3>\n<p>Get MobaXterm from: <a href=\"http:\/\/mobaxterm.mobatek.net\/download.html\" title=\"MobaXterm download\" target=\"_blank\">MobaXterm download<\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<h3>XMing and Putty<\/h3>\n<p>Get XMing from: <a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/xming\/\" title=\"XMing download\" target=\"_blank\">XMing download<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nGet Putty from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.putty.org\/\" title=\"Download Putty\" target=\"_blank\">Download Putty<\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<h3>mRemoteNG<\/h3>\n<p>Get mRemoteNGfrom: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mremoteng.org\/download\/\" title=\"Download mRemoteNG\" target=\"_blank\">Download mRemoteNG<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Oracle Instance on Linux<\/h2>\n<h3>Files in the dbs ($ORACLE_HOME\/dbs) directory<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>lk&lt;SID&gt; &#8211; a lock file to stop another instance being launched &#8211; managed by Oracle &#8211; DO NOT DELETE!<\/li>\n<li>orapw&lt;SID&gt; &#8211; the Oracle password file &#8211; for remote admin connections<\/li>\n<li>init&lt;SID&gt;.ora &#8211; textual initialization parameter file for instance startup<\/li>\n<li>spfile&lt;SID&gt;.ora &#8211; binary (in-memory) initialization parameter fie for instance startup<\/li>\n<li>hc&#95;&lt;SID&gt;.dat &#8211; a health check file used by Oracle<\/li>\n<li>snapcf&#95;&lt;SID&gt;.f &#8211; read-consistent temporary snapshot control file used by RMAN for synchronizing during RMAN operations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>RMAN<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oracle.com\/technetwork\/database\/features\/availability\/rman-fra-snapshot-322251.html\" title=\"RMAN vs. Snapshot Technology\" target=\"_blank\">RMAN vs. Snapshot Technology<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Set date environment variable for RMAN session &#8211; to show time<\/h2>\n<p>$&gt; export NLS_DATE_FORMAT=&#8221;dd-month-yyyy hh:mi:ss am&#8221;<br \/>\n$&gt; rman<br \/>\nRMAN&gt; list archivelog all;<\/p>\n<h2>Oracle Thin Cloning<\/h2>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oaktable.net\/content\/database-thin-cloning-clonedb-oracle\" title=\"Oracle Thin Cloning\" target=\"_blank\">Oracle Thin Cloning<\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Restrict access to Oracle database using sqlnet.ora<\/h2>\n<p>\nTCP.VALIDNODE_CHECKING=yes<br \/>\nTCP.INVITED_NODES=(xyzwedf,10.15.134.11)<\/p>\n<h2>Oracle Instant Client on Windows<\/h2>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/nyoug.org\/Presentations\/2008\/Lee_Instant%20Client.pdf\" title=\"Instant Client 10g\" target=\"_blank\">Instant Client 10g<\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>To use a glogin.sql on Windows &#8211; create a system environemnt variable SQLPATH<\/p>\n<h2>Oracle Maintenance Tasks<\/h2>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.toadworld.com\/platforms\/oracle\/w\/wiki\/942.administration-checklists.aspx\" title=\"DBA Checklists from toadworld\" target=\"_blank\">DBA Checklists from toadworld (TOAD)<\/a><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A series of links to Oracle articles and documents . 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