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GENERAL TOPICS


Two Listeners With Two Oracle7 Databases
On The Same UNIX Server
GSX:1005566.6
How To Run Multiple Instances On One Server GSX:1012355.6
Installing SQL*NET For Windows From
A Network Drive
GSX:1003483.6
Installing SQL*NET For Windows Onto
A Network Drive
GSX:1003520.6
How To Connect To Oracle7 With PowerBuilder GSX:1005104.6
Overview Of SQL*NET V2.X GSX:1018138.6
Connection Hangs Using SQL*NET TCP/IP V2 On Windows GSX:1006813.6
ORACLE_SID VS TWO_TASK On SQL*NET V2 For UNIX GSX:1015197.4
How To Check That SQL*NET V2 Protocol Adapters
Are Linked
GSX:1005051.6
Port Number Changes Each Time Listener Is Started GSX:1020519.6
Common SQL*NET Compatability Questions GSX:1005093.6
NET8 Compatability Matrix Note: 46051.1
The BEQUEATH Protocol Adapter Note:16653.1
Load Balancing And Failover Note:50509.1
IPC Explained Note:29232.1
Listener Hanging Intermittently Note:52808.1

ERRORS


ORA-12154 With SQL*NET V2 GSX:1004114.6
ORA-12203 Using SQL*NET V2 GSX:1015259.4
TNS-12545 With SQL*NET V2 GSX:1003489.6
ORA-12203 With SQL*NET V2 On UNIX GSX:1004153.6
ORA-12203 Or ORA-03113 Using Database Links GSX:1003984.6
ORA-12500 GSX:1012134.6
ORA-12500 Connecting Through SQL*NET V2 Listener GSX:1028712.6
ORA-12500 Connecting To Unix Via SQL*NET V2 GSX:1004121.6
ORA-03113 Using SQL*NET V2 GSX:1009295.6
ORA-1034 ORA-7429 GSX:1004646.6
ORA-1034 ORA-7429 Connecting With SQL*NET GSX:1017463.6
TNS-12546 Using SQL*NET IPC On UNIX GSX:1007484.6
TNS-12547 Connecting With SQLNET V2 GSX:1004135.6
TNS-12547 Using SQL*NET TCP/IP V2 GSX:1005622.6
ORA-3121 Connecting With SQLNET V2 GSX:1013392.6
TNS-12560 Using SQL*NET V2 TCP/IP On UNIX GSX:1005782.6
ORA-12203 ORA-12538 ORA-12560 GSX:1030898.6
TNS-12542/TNS-12560/TNS-00512 Starting Listener GSX:1005739.6
TNS-12224/TNS-12541/TNS-12560 Running 'LSNRCTL STAT' GSX:1013420.6
TNS-01169 Stopping Or Getting The Status Of The Listener GSX:1015154.4
TNS-12537 Using SQL*NET V2 On Windows GSX:1006311.6
TNS-12537 TNS-12547 When Starting Listener GSX:1009396.6
ORA-12571 Starting Application Or Connecting With SQL*NET GSX:1034987.6
ORA-12570/ORA-12571 Using SQL*NET V2 GSX:1015430.4
ORA-12505 Connecting Invalid SID Specified GSX:1006411.6
ORA-12505 Connecting Using SQL*NET V2 GSX:1005576.6
Getting An ORA-12223 When Trying To Connect GSX:1014739.6
ORA-12223 Using SQL*NET V2 GSX:1008370.6

MULTI THREADED SERVER (MTS)


How To Configure Multi-Threaded Server(MTS) On A Unix Server Note:61395.1
Multi-Threaded Server (MTS) Configuration And OperationNote:16656.1
O7 Taking Advantage Of Multi-Threaded Server Note:61326.1
RDBMS Configured For Multi Threaded Server
Still getting Dedicated Server
GSX:1005997.6
MTS Only Servicing 1 Connection If A
Database Link Is Used
GSX:1017409.6
Install Hangs After Creating INIT.ORA GSX:1024690.6
ORAINST Hanging When Choosing MTS GSX:1021186.6
Multi-Threaded Server Diagnostics GSX:1005259.6
FAQ On Multi-Threaded Server Note:47684.1

DEAD CONNECTION DETECTION (DCD)


What Is Dead Connection Detection (DCD) GSX:1013364.6
Common Questions About Dead Connection Detection (DCD) GSX:1018160.6
Dead Connection Detection (DCD) Won't Work GSX:1006809.6
Dead Connection Detection (DCD) Feature Of SQL*NET V2 GSX:1004985.6

NET8


NET8 Troubleshooting Checklist Note:46052.1
NET8 New Features - Quick Reference Note:46049.1
NET8 Socket Usage Note:47927.1
'Unhanded Exception Error In JAVA.EXE' Running
NET8 Assistant
GSX:1033929.6
Overview Of NET8'S Connection Manager GSX:1029127.6
NET8 Tracing GSX:1030488.6
Configuring NET8 For External Procedure
Calls In ORACLE8
GSX:1033759.6
JAVA(TM) Runtime Environment For NET8 GSX:1034764.6
NET8 Hostname Naming Adapter Note:47369.1
NET8 Compatibility Matrix Note: 46051.1

CONFIGURATION AND EXAMPLE FILES


Overview Of Configuration Steps For SQL*NET V2 GSX:1017459.6
Overview Of Network Manager GSX:1006314.6
An Overview Of Network Manager V3.0 GSX:1019137.6
How To Save To Database Using Network Manager GSX:1007487.6
What Is SQL*NET Easy Config? How Does It Work? GSX:1016832.6
Example Of SQLNET.ORA File GSX:1006437.6
TNSNAMES.ORA File For TCP/IP GSX:1036070.6
TNSNAMES.ORA File For SPX GSX:1006432.6
LISTENER.ORA File Example On NETWARE GSX:1010145.6
LISTENER.ORA File On UNIX GSX:1004902.6
LISTENER.ORA Example File For WINDOWS NT GSX:1009383.6
SQL*NET V2 Configuration On UNIX GSX:1004052.6
SQL*NET V2 Configuration Hints GSX:1006505.6
Location Of SQL*NET V2 Configuration Files GSX:1017723.6
Automatic Startup And Shutdown Of SQL*NET Listeners Note:16123.1

ORACLE NAMES SERVER


Overview Of Oracle8's Oracle Names V8 GSX:1030422.6
CONFIGURING ORACLE NAMES V8 without EDO Note:60535.1
CONFIGURING ORACLE NAMES V8 with EDO Note:60660.1
Overview Of Oracle Names V2 GSX:1014922.4
Configuring V2 DDO Names Server Note:45596.1
Steps For Configuring Oracle Names V2
Using Network Manager V3
GSX:1015590.4
Configuration Of Oracle Names V2
With Dynamic Discovery
GSX:1024682.6
NNO Errors Starting Up Names Server GSX:1007943.6
Overview Of NET8 Hostname Adapter GSX:1033658.6

MULTI-PROTOCOL INTERCHANGE (MPI)


When Is The Multi-Protocol Interchange (MPI) Needed GSX:1009147.6
ORA-12699 Using MPI To Connect To Server GSX:1013241.6
ORA-12203 Using MPI (Multi Protocol Interchange) GSX:1011861.6

MOBILE AGENTS


What Is Oracle Mobile Agents GSX:1031720.6
Oracle Mobile Agents
- Technical Questions And Answers
GSX:1006424.6
What Addresses Are Used To Initialize Agents GSX:1007411.6

TRACE AND PERFORMANCE TUNING


NET8 Tracing GSX:1030488.6
SQL*NET V2 Tracing GSX:1011114.6
SQL*NET V2 Tracing For Desktop And UNIX GSX:1009384.6
Turning On Tracing For Multi Threaded Server(MTS) GSX:1015176.4
Tuning SQL*NET For Better Performance GSX:1005123.6
How can SQL*NET V2 Performance Be Improved GSX:1018693.6

Oracle Technical Support Bulletins

ORACLE8_CONCEPTS ADMIN BACKUP/RECOVERY DIST/REPLICATION NLS
OTHERS PERF/TUNING SERVER_TOOLS STORAGE TALES_OF_THE_SCRIPTS  

ORACLE8 CONCEPTS

Application Failover CR 181872
Application Server Partitioning and Partition CR 181877
Basics of the Object Option CR 181874
Checkpoint Algorithm CR 181870
Cost Based Optimizer ("CBO") Enhancements CR 181871
NET8 CR 181875
New Rowid Format CR 181880
Oracle8 introduces a new multiple buffer pool CR 181869
Parallel DML (Insert, Update, Delete) CR 181878
Partitioning CR 181876
Reverse Key Indexes CR 181879
Useful Alter Commands in Oracle8 CR 181868

ADMINISTRATION

How To Make A Copy Of A Database On The Same Unix Machine Note 18070.1
Copying an Oracle7 database on OpenVMS Note 30349.1
Causes And Solutions To Ora-1555 "Snapshot Too Old" Note 40689.1
LKdbname - The MOUNT Lock File Note 50594.1
SQL DIAG- Determining Dependency Information (Oracle7) Note 30485.1
SQL DBA - Manually Coalescing Free Space Note 31116.1
Foreign Keys - Table & Index Dependencies Note 39392.1
Retrieving Data from the Database Note 39383.1
Delete_commit Procedure Note 37777.1
Capturing Index_Stat Information Note 35492.1
Diagnosing Database Hanging Issues Note 61552.1
Read-Only Tablespaces Note 33402.1
Recreating Database Objects Note 30910.1
Rollback Segment Needs Recovery Note 28812.1
Truncate Command in 7.1 Note 28722.1

Corruption:

DBVERIFY - Database file Verification Utility (7.3.2 onwards) Note 35512.1
ORA-1578 and Data Block Corruption Note 28814.1
ORA-1578 Checklist Note 61624.1
Handling Data Block Corruption (ORA-1578) in Oracle 7 Note 34371.1

Locking:

TX Transaction locks - Example wait scenarios Note 62354.1
What to do with "ORA-60 Deadlock Detected" Errors Note 62365.1
ORA-1575 Timeout waiting for Space Management Enqueue Note 33567.1
Example Table Locks During Referential Integrity Enforcement Note 38373.1
(V7) Referential Integrity And Locking Note 33453.1

Memory:

Fundamentals of the Large Pool Note 62140.1
Internal Latch Contention Note 22908.1
Shared Pool Calculation Note 61340.1

Security:

Identifying PC Clients in V$SESSION Note 39333.1
DBA (Connect Internal) Privilege on Oracle7 Note 18089.1
SYSDBA and SYSOPER Privileges in Oracle8 and Oracle7 Note 50507.1
Role Restrictions Note 11740.1

BACKUP/RECOVERY

Archiving:

Archiver Best Practices Note 45042.1

Recovery:

QREF Hot backups from OS MIRRORS Note 47422.1
Recovering a Dropped Table from a Full Database Backup Note 15475.1
Incomplete Media Recovery On Parallel Server Note 16575.1
How To Recover A Database Having Added A Datafile Since The Last Backup Note 29430.1
Recovering A Dropped Table From A Full Database Backup Note 61330.1

Standby:

Switchover Between Primary and Standby Databases Note 39673.1
Hot Standby DB info in 7.3 Note 33236.1
Standby Database Prior to 7.3 Note 31406.1

Recovery Manager (RMAN):

Parallelizing Backups using Legato Storage Manager & Recovery Manager Note Note 60952.1
Testing Legato Storage Manager and Recovery Manager without a tape device Note 60967.1
Getting started with Server-Managed Recovery (SMR) and RMAN Note 50875.1
Parallel Features with Server-Managed Recovery (SMR) and Recovery Manager(RMAN) Note 52576.1
RMAN: Restore and Recovery of a NOARCHIVELOG database Note 61801.1

Enterprise Backup Utility (EBU):

Migrating to Recovery Manager from EBU Note 47423.1

DISTRIBUTED/REPLICATION

Replication:

Creating a Replication Environment in Oracle 8.0.X Note 62398.1
7.3 Synchronous Data Propagation Example Note 43029.1
SQL Sample script to setup repadmin user DBA synonyms Note 43001.1
Printing Deftran/Defcall/Deferror Entries In A Replicated Environment GSX 1022011.6
Interoperability between the Replication Releases V7 and V8 Note 60927.1
Print Out Arguments of Errored Transactions in 7.3.x Note 62088.1
Upgrading Replication Databases from v7.3.x to v7.3.x Note 50573.1
Diagnosis of Replication Setup Problems Note 33515.1
Top Issues For Symmetric Replication Note 47813.1
7.3 DBMS_RECTIFIER_DIFF Package Example Note 43033.1
Conflict Resolution Example - Minimum Value Note 43024.1
Conflict Resolution Example - Latest Timestamp Note 43010.1
Procedural Replication Setup Example Note 43009.1

Snapshots:

Top Issues For Read-Only Snapshots Note 47811.1
Frequently Asked Questions For Read-Only Snapshots Note 47810.1

NLS

Code Pages For We8iso8859p9 Character Set Note 16559.1
Nlsrtl 2.3 Supported Character Sets Note 16128.1
How Computers Process Different Languages Note 15383.1
Export/Import And NLS Considerations Note 15095.1
Code Pages For We8iso8859p1 Character Set Note 14786.1
NLS_Lang/Cde Production 3 For Ms-Windows Note 14325.1
Oracle And Unicode Q&A Note 14079.1
NLS Sort Characteristics CR 88679
NLS Language Dependent Features CR 88678
NLS Port Specific Supported Character Sets Note 13971.1
NLS Supported Languages And Territories Note 13881.1
Linguistic Sorting Of Data In Oracle7 Note 13882.1
NLS Supported Message Files Oracle7 Note 13883.1
Dump Sql Command For NLS Debugging Note 13854.1
NLS 7-Bit/8-Bit Conversion Note 13855.1
NLS On Dos Vs.Windows Note 13853.1
National Language Support CR 58762

OTHERS

Context:

Oracle ConText Option Note 43474.1

Migration:

Upgrading to Oracle 7.3 - Important things to check Note 61975.1
Oracle 8.X -> 8.X Upgrade scripts to run Note 62291.1
Oracle 7.X -> 7.X Upgrade scripts to run Note 33318.1
Checklist for Migrating from Oracle7 to Oracle8 on UNIX Note 47290.1

Parameters:

PARAMETER INIT.ORA DB_DOMAIN () Note 30710.1
PARAMETER INIT.ORA LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST () Note 30748.1

Misc:

Locating Resursive Sessions Note 62003.1
Caching Oracle Sequences Note 62002.1
ORA-1647 in Oracle 7.x Note 61995.1
Oracle Mutating Table Problem CR 104200

Partitions:

Introduction to Partition Views in Oracle 7.3 () Note 33593.1
Partition views in 7.3 Note 43194.1
Partition Views and the use of indexes (7.1 & 7.2) Note 28426.1

PERFORMANCE/TUNING

Performance:

Library Cache And Shared Pool Tuning Note 61623.1
Systemwide Tuning using UTLESTAT Reports in Oracle7/8 Note 62161.1
Main issues affecting the Shared Pool on Oracle 7 and 8 Note 62143.1
Issues affecting the Buffer Cache and DBWR in Oracle7/8 Note 62172.1
Introduction to Tuning Oracle7 / Oracle8 Note 61998.1

Sql Tuning:

Interpreting Explain plan Note 46234.1
Hints and Subqueries Note 62364.1
Using Use_Concat Hint To Override A Full Table Scan With In/Or Statements Note 17214.1
Setting SQL Trace in the Oracle Tools Note 15160.1
Interpreting Raw SQL_TRACE and DBMS_SUPPORT.START_TRACE output () Note 39817.1
Determining the execution plan for a distributed query Note 33838.1
SQL DIAG - Select to show Optimizer Statistics for CBO Note 31412.1
SQL Tuning FAQ Note 47736.1
Cost Based Optimizer - Common Misconceptions and Problems Note 35934.1
Index Space usage Note 33343.1
SQL Tuning TOP 20 Issues Note 47742.1
Automatic Explain Plan Note 39341.1

SERVER TOOLS

Exp/Import:

ORA-904 when exporting a 7.3.3 database Note 62322.1
Export/Import And Nls Considerations Note 15656.1
V7. Exporting Procedures, Packages and Triggers Note 17839.1
QREF Export/Import/SQL*Load large files in Unix - Quick Reference Note 30528.1
Exporting/Importing From Multiple Tapes Note 2035.1
Exporting to tape on unix system Note 30428.1
Unix Script: IMPSHOW2SQL - Extracting SQL from an EXPORT file Note 29765.1

SqlLoader:

NT/95 Loading Binary Files With Sql*Loader Note 61713.1
NT/95 Loading Text Files With Sql*Loader Note 61714.1
SQL*Loader FAQ Note 48718.1

Server Manager:

Server Manager --- TOP 20 Issues Note 47842.1

STORAGE

2Gb or Not 2Gb - File limits in Oracle Note 62427.1
SQL DIAG- Who owns TEMP Segments in V7 Note 40758.1
How Oracle Allocates Extents when altering PCTINCREASE Note 15251.1
ALERT Using UNLIMITED Extent Format Note 50380.1
ALERT Failed Operations may leave TEMPORARY Segments Note 38388.1
Removing `stray` TEMPORARY Segments Note 35513.1

 

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