Monthly Archive for: ‘November, 2010’

Display OLE DB Providers

Sometimes it can happen that you need to change a property for a certain OLE DB drivers, such as the …

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component ‘SET_NO_OUTLINES’ must be declared

When exporting data from a database, you receive following error: EXP-00056: ORACLE error 6550 encountered ORA-06550: line 1, column 41: …

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Create an Oracle password file

Oracle password file In order to startup an Oracle database, one need to have either an Oracle password file or …

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Write a message to a trace file or the alert.log file

In case you want to write something to the Oracle alert.log file, you can use an undocumented package procedure to …

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Location of alert.log file

The alert.log file contain messages related to the startup and running of a specific database. The name of the alert.log …

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Enable database auditing

Oracle database auditing can be enabled by setting the audit_trail initialization parameter. You can check the current status using following …

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Enable 10046 trace in a session

There are a number of ways to trace a session: Enable trace at the beginning of your session Enable trace …

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Generate Workload CPU statistics using dbms_stats.gather_system_stats

In Oracle 9i and up, you can generate CPU cost information during a workload with a procedure of the dbms_stats …

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Oracle startup sequence

The Oracle startup phase consist out of 3 steps: nomount phase: during this phase, the initialization file is read mount …

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[SEVERE] – My Oracle Support Username/Email Address Not Specified

When you are trying to install Oracle 11gr2 software using a silent install, you might encounter following error: [SEVERE] – …

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