Monthly Archives: July 2009

Backup failure… One RMAN’s odyssey

Posted on July 23, 2009 by Fred Coulson

Here’s a cautionary tale about not doing your homework first. There’s this Oracle 10.2 database on a Windows 2003 server that I manage. I noticed a big hard drive attached to it that was just sitting there unused, so I … Continue reading →

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What happened to my automatic instance recovery?

Posted on July 10, 2009 by Fred Coulson

Yesterday I had to shutdown a production reporting database (Oracle version 10.2.0.4) so they could add RAM to the server. The shutdown immediate wasn’t going fast enough to suit me, so I logged into a second session and issued a … Continue reading →

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