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2025  2

May  2

My Second Post

May 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM · 0 min · 0 words · Amardeep Sidhu

My First Post

May 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM · 1 min · 3 words · Amardeep Sidhu

2023  2

September  1

Extended memory VM instances in OCI

September 21, 2023 at 3:48 PM · 2 min · 216 words · Amardeep Sidhu

January  1

Can’t su to oracle user

January 20, 2023 at 4:55 PM · 1 min · 160 words · Amardeep Sidhu

2022  3

May  1

Adding a new cell to Exadata with asm scoped security enabled

May 9, 2022 at 1:26 PM · 3 min · 555 words · Amardeep Sidhu

March  1

Smokescreen detects traffic from an Exadata VM

March 21, 2022 at 7:30 PM · 1 min · 182 words · Amardeep Sidhu

January  1

Unable to connect to the database with SQLPlus

January 6, 2022 at 6:41 PM · 2 min · 216 words · Amardeep Sidhu

2021  4

June  1

File system already present at specified mount point /dbfs_direct

June 5, 2021 at 8:19 PM · 2 min · 248 words · Amardeep Sidhu

March  3

Database performance degradation due to multipath issues

March 22, 2021 at 12:54 PM · 3 min · 578 words · Amardeep Sidhu

ZDLRA patching

March 12, 2021 at 10:30 PM · 2 min · 422 words · Amardeep Sidhu

[FATAL] [INS-44000] Passwordless SSH connectivity is not setup

March 10, 2021 at 6:17 PM · 1 min · 212 words · Amardeep Sidhu

2020  6

October  2

Doing an Exadata mixed cells config with OEDA

October 27, 2020 at 6:53 PM · 2 min · 285 words · Amardeep Sidhu

Implementing ZDLRA – Part 2

October 6, 2020 at 6:06 PM · 3 min · 463 words · Amardeep Sidhu

September  2

PRVF-4657 : Name resolution setup check for “db-scan” (IP address: x.x.x.101) failed

September 25, 2020 at 7:41 PM · 1 min · 145 words · Amardeep Sidhu

Implementing ZDLRA – Part 1

September 9, 2020 at 6:33 PM · 2 min · 350 words · Amardeep Sidhu

July  1

Using Secure Fabric for network isolation in KVM environments on Exadata

July 17, 2020 at 9:21 PM · 2 min · 215 words · Amardeep Sidhu

May  1

Exadata Virtualized DB node restore

May 11, 2020 at 9:31 PM · 5 min · 918 words · Amardeep Sidhu

2019  7

December  2

dbnodeupdate.sh appears to be stuck

December 21, 2019 at 6:37 AM · 2 min · 277 words · Amardeep Sidhu

AVDF installation error

December 5, 2019 at 8:18 PM · 1 min · 145 words · Amardeep Sidhu

October  1

OGB Appreciation Day : Thank you community ! (#ThanksOGB)

October 10, 2019 at 7:40 PM · 1 min · 142 words · Amardeep Sidhu

February  1

Understanding grid disks in Exadata

February 18, 2019 at 6:37 PM · 3 min · 564 words · Amardeep Sidhu

January  3

ORA-04080: trigger ‘PRICE_HISTORY_TRIGGERV1’ does not exist

January 22, 2019 at 7:15 PM · 1 min · 143 words · Amardeep Sidhu

Error while running ggsci

January 12, 2019 at 7:51 PM · 2 min · 254 words · Amardeep Sidhu

Failed to execute the command “”/u01/app/xag/bin/clsecho”

January 8, 2019 at 10:52 PM · 2 min · 241 words · Amardeep Sidhu

2018  2

December  1

dbca doesn’t list diskgroups

December 26, 2018 at 9:01 PM · 2 min · 410 words · Amardeep Sidhu

November  1

New web based OEDA for Exadata

November 21, 2018 at 2:47 PM · 2 min · 219 words · Amardeep Sidhu

2017  10

November  5

Garbled display while running FMW installer on Linux

November 18, 2017 at 4:26 PM · 1 min · 97 words · Amardeep Sidhu

root.sh fails with CRS-2101:The OLR was formatted using version 3

November 18, 2017 at 4:03 PM · 1 min · 56 words · Amardeep Sidhu

Presenting at Cloud day event of North India Chapter of AIOUG

November 6, 2017 at 5:17 PM · 1 min · 49 words · Amardeep Sidhu

ksplice kernel updates and Exadata patching

November 5, 2017 at 11:02 PM · 1 min · 46 words · Amardeep Sidhu

ORA-15040 ORA-15042 with EXTERNAL redundancy Diskgroup

November 3, 2017 at 11:27 PM · 4 min · 715 words · Amardeep Sidhu

July  1

TNS-12543: TNS:destination host unreachable

July 15, 2017 at 10:23 AM · 1 min · 109 words · Amardeep Sidhu

May  1

ORA-12154 in Data Guard environment

May 31, 2017 at 9:24 PM · 2 min · 250 words · Amardeep Sidhu

April  2

Failed to create voting files on disk group RECOC1

April 28, 2017 at 2:31 PM · 4 min · 810 words · Amardeep Sidhu

OneCommand Step 1 error

April 10, 2017 at 10:20 PM · 1 min · 148 words · Amardeep Sidhu

March  1

Oracle RAC 12.1 – lsnodes exited with code 9

March 28, 2017 at 10:01 PM · 2 min · 237 words · Amardeep Sidhu

2016  4

September  3

ERROR: SPFile in diskgroup <> does not match the specified spfile

September 20, 2016 at 10:12 PM · 1 min · 120 words · Amardeep Sidhu

addNode.sh, failed root.sh and IB listener

September 13, 2016 at 7:44 PM · 2 min · 360 words · Amardeep Sidhu

OEDA–Things to keep an eye on

September 8, 2016 at 3:44 PM · 2 min · 340 words · Amardeep Sidhu

May  1

ORA-56841: Master Diskmon cannot connect to a CELL

May 19, 2016 at 10:15 PM · 1 min · 81 words · Amardeep Sidhu

2015  5

December  1

ORA-01671 while creating cascaded standby from standby using RMAN DUPLICATE

December 19, 2015 at 8:50 PM · 1 min · 91 words · Amardeep Sidhu

November  1

Sangam 15

November 24, 2015 at 7:04 PM · 3 min · 611 words · Amardeep Sidhu

August  1

MRP process on standby stops with ORA-00600

August 20, 2015 at 2:33 PM · 1 min · 123 words · Amardeep Sidhu

May  1

Writing tips

May 19, 2015 at 2:44 PM · 1 min · 95 words · Amardeep Sidhu

January  1

Want to learn Exadata ?

January 2, 2015 at 2:49 PM · 3 min · 508 words · Amardeep Sidhu

2014  1

December  1

VirtualBox and Windows driver verifier

December 3, 2014 at 4:04 PM · 1 min · 105 words · Amardeep Sidhu

2013  3

July  1

Oracle GoldenGate 11g Handbook

July 18, 2013 at 8:32 PM · 1 min · 130 words · Amardeep Sidhu

June  2

Oracle database 12c

June 27, 2013 at 7:28 AM · 1 min · 72 words · Amardeep Sidhu

agent deployment error in EM 12c

June 16, 2013 at 10:34 PM · 2 min · 408 words · Amardeep Sidhu

2012  4

August  1

Updating to Exadata 11.2.3.1.1

August 19, 2012 at 10:37 PM · 1 min · 190 words · Amardeep Sidhu

July  1

ORA-01422 while compiling objects

July 31, 2012 at 10:04 PM · 2 min · 314 words · Amardeep Sidhu

May  2

Configure GoldenGate Extract to read from remote logs

May 26, 2012 at 6:13 PM · 2 min · 400 words · Amardeep Sidhu

Tuning GoldenGate Extract Pump performance

May 25, 2012 at 8:38 PM · 2 min · 296 words · Amardeep Sidhu

2011  7

December  1

DML and HCC – Exadata

December 22, 2011 at 12:01 AM · 2 min · 311 words · Amardeep Sidhu

November  2

OGG-01004 Aborted grouped transaction on <table_name>‘, Database error 1403 ()

November 4, 2011 at 4:38 PM · 3 min · 633 words · Amardeep Sidhu

expdp not consistent

November 4, 2011 at 3:10 PM · 1 min · 71 words · Amardeep Sidhu

May  2

dbc_min_pct and dbc_max_pct in HP-UX

May 25, 2011 at 4:45 PM · 2 min · 383 words · Amardeep Sidhu

ORA-12547: TNS:lost contact

May 18, 2011 at 11:13 AM · 5 min · 856 words · Amardeep Sidhu

March  1

waiting for resmgr:become active – can’t login

March 4, 2011 at 5:19 PM · 3 min · 493 words · Amardeep Sidhu

January  1

Issues in upgrading from 9i to 10g

January 29, 2011 at 10:30 PM · 2 min · 300 words · Amardeep Sidhu

2010  3

December  1

ORA-39083: Object type INDEX failed to create with error

December 4, 2010 at 5:22 PM · 1 min · 111 words · Amardeep Sidhu

November  1

EXP-00056: ORACLE error 28002 encountered

November 14, 2010 at 12:24 AM · 2 min · 255 words · Amardeep Sidhu

September  1

Sangam 10

September 12, 2010 at 4:57 PM · 3 min · 520 words · Amardeep Sidhu

2009  8

October  1

Delete Delete Faster Faster ;)

October 8, 2009 at 8:53 PM · 1 min · 145 words · Amardeep Sidhu

September  1

wrap’ed code and SQL trace

September 18, 2009 at 9:42 PM · 2 min · 296 words · Amardeep Sidhu

July  2

ORA-30019: Illegal rollback Segment operation in Automatic Undo mode

July 9, 2009 at 11:26 PM · 1 min · 102 words · Amardeep Sidhu

GATHER_SCHEMA_STATS & ORA-03001: unimplemented feature

July 8, 2009 at 11:33 PM · 3 min · 509 words · Amardeep Sidhu

June  2

DBMS_SCHEDULER, DBMS_RLS and SYS_CONTEXT

June 19, 2009 at 11:42 PM · 3 min · 511 words · Amardeep Sidhu

Take care of a slash in a SQL script

June 14, 2009 at 5:31 PM · 2 min · 298 words · Amardeep Sidhu

February  2

Required ;)

February 23, 2009 at 11:42 PM · 1 min · 170 words · Amardeep Sidhu

Quote modified for S/W industry

February 22, 2009 at 12:35 PM · 1 min · 133 words · Amardeep Sidhu

2008  35

December  3

Manually booting an OS from GRUB

December 14, 2008 at 7:28 PM · 1 min · 190 words · Amardeep Sidhu

My re-designed website ;)

December 9, 2008 at 8:39 PM · 1 min · 172 words · Amardeep Sidhu

where 1=2 ;)

December 6, 2008 at 12:58 PM · 2 min · 232 words · Amardeep Sidhu

September  1

OTN forums suck ?

September 14, 2008 at 6:41 PM · 1 min · 144 words · Amardeep Sidhu

August  3

OTN forums – 2nd upgrade attempt

August 28, 2008 at 7:28 AM · 2 min · 330 words · Amardeep Sidhu

Lotus notes and sametime

August 20, 2008 at 11:00 PM · 1 min · 113 words · Amardeep Sidhu

OTN forums under maintenance

August 10, 2008 at 7:58 AM · 2 min · 280 words · Amardeep Sidhu

July  5

Conducting my first interview ;)

July 29, 2008 at 7:19 AM · 5 min · 964 words · Amardeep Sidhu

Accessing outside DocumentRoot files in Apache HTTP server

July 22, 2008 at 9:51 PM · 1 min · 130 words · Amardeep Sidhu

DBA_MVIEW_COMMENTS view in 10g

July 21, 2008 at 7:28 AM · 1 min · 130 words · Amardeep Sidhu

Upgrade to WordPress 2.6

July 15, 2008 at 10:28 PM · 1 min · 20 words · Amardeep Sidhu

Commenting on my blog

July 8, 2008 at 11:28 PM · 1 min · 203 words · Amardeep Sidhu

June  3

OTN forums get a new look

June 29, 2008 at 8:25 PM · 2 min · 260 words · Amardeep Sidhu

High Availability – Live ;)

June 28, 2008 at 8:15 AM · 1 min · 11 words · Amardeep Sidhu

A database – one tablespace & one datafile

June 10, 2008 at 9:32 PM · 1 min · 97 words · Amardeep Sidhu

May  1

Import and default values for columns

May 10, 2008 at 2:47 PM · 1 min · 155 words · Amardeep Sidhu

April  5

Maintenance…is everywhere ;)

April 22, 2008 at 10:34 PM · 1 min · 50 words · Amardeep Sidhu

Have you searched “%” in metalink ?

April 18, 2008 at 8:43 PM · 1 min · 45 words · Amardeep Sidhu

Unxutils for Windows

April 10, 2008 at 9:57 PM · 1 min · 98 words · Amardeep Sidhu

Automating WordPress 2.5 upgrade

April 6, 2008 at 11:59 AM · 1 min · 81 words · Amardeep Sidhu

OTN forums etiquettes

April 4, 2008 at 7:09 AM · 3 min · 430 words · Amardeep Sidhu

March  10

DBAzine.com is back :)

March 31, 2008 at 9:54 PM · 1 min · 109 words · Amardeep Sidhu

Upgrading to WordPress 2.5

March 30, 2008 at 5:46 PM · 1 min · 54 words · Amardeep Sidhu

Upgrade 10gR1 to 10gR2 – DBUA error

March 27, 2008 at 10:53 PM · 2 min · 329 words · Amardeep Sidhu

EXP-00008: ORACLE error 600 encountered

March 24, 2008 at 11:06 PM · 1 min · 129 words · Amardeep Sidhu

Get rid of your copy paste woes in Windows

March 23, 2008 at 10:19 PM · 1 min · 197 words · Amardeep Sidhu

Solid state cooling for processors

March 23, 2008 at 11:40 AM · 1 min · 30 words · Amardeep Sidhu

dbazine.com has expired

March 22, 2008 at 3:45 PM · 1 min · 54 words · Amardeep Sidhu

Autonomous Transactions in Oracle

March 4, 2008 at 8:33 PM · 1 min · 50 words · Amardeep Sidhu

Syntax highlighting for code in WordPress

March 3, 2008 at 10:07 PM · 2 min · 232 words · Amardeep Sidhu

Missing grants

March 3, 2008 at 8:37 PM · 2 min · 274 words · Amardeep Sidhu

February  2

Learning Regular Expressions

February 27, 2008 at 9:29 PM · 1 min · 156 words · Amardeep Sidhu

Welcome to my new website & blog…

February 6, 2008 at 8:42 PM · 2 min · 284 words · Amardeep Sidhu

January  2

Oracle from Dizwell…

January 3, 2008 at 10:41 PM · 1 min · 72 words · Amardeep Sidhu

ORA-03113 Refresh of a mview in Oracle 10g

January 3, 2008 at 7:33 AM · 1 min · 175 words · Amardeep Sidhu

2007  35

November  2

Trained in AIX…

November 27, 2007 at 8:56 PM · 3 min · 613 words · Amardeep Sidhu

Oracle from Eddie Awad…

November 27, 2007 at 8:45 PM · 1 min · 71 words · Amardeep Sidhu

October  4

Howard’s decision…

October 23, 2007 at 7:40 AM · 1 min · 67 words · Amardeep Sidhu

Asking Tom ? Read this !

October 16, 2007 at 1:39 PM · 1 min · 132 words · Amardeep Sidhu

Official Oracle wiki

October 15, 2007 at 9:12 PM · 1 min · 77 words · Amardeep Sidhu

UNDO tablespace in Oracle…

October 9, 2007 at 7:44 PM · 11 min · 2158 words · Amardeep Sidhu

September  3

Google friendliness of …

September 19, 2007 at 9:29 PM · 2 min · 258 words · Amardeep Sidhu

Learning AWK…

September 17, 2007 at 11:24 PM · 1 min · 64 words · Amardeep Sidhu

Tracing Wikipedia…

September 16, 2007 at 11:23 PM · 1 min · 72 words · Amardeep Sidhu

August  5

Being an Oracle trainer…

August 19, 2007 at 3:31 PM · 3 min · 553 words · Amardeep Sidhu

Importing a full database…

August 18, 2007 at 6:51 PM · 2 min · 424 words · Amardeep Sidhu

Oracle 11g…

August 13, 2007 at 10:25 PM · 1 min · 159 words · Amardeep Sidhu

Why Linux cries about “1024 cylinders thing” at the time of installation…

August 9, 2007 at 9:29 PM · 3 min · 437 words · Amardeep Sidhu

Plugged-in back to www…

August 8, 2007 at 11:32 PM · 1 min · 75 words · Amardeep Sidhu

July  4

Moving datafiles,control files and log files – Part 1

July 21, 2007 at 1:44 PM · 2 min · 292 words · Amardeep Sidhu

Batch file for ftp’ing files…

July 16, 2007 at 9:54 PM · 1 min · 143 words · Amardeep Sidhu

Import ORA-01435: user does not exist…

July 14, 2007 at 9:29 AM · 2 min · 224 words · Amardeep Sidhu

Hats off…

July 4, 2007 at 10:31 PM · 2 min · 252 words · Amardeep Sidhu

June  5

Shell script to spool a no of tables into .xls files…

June 26, 2007 at 10:38 PM · 1 min · 209 words · Amardeep Sidhu

Is multiplication faster than division ?

June 18, 2007 at 11:02 PM · 1 min · 101 words · Amardeep Sidhu

Spool to a .xls (excel) file…

June 16, 2007 at 12:14 AM · 4 min · 766 words · Amardeep Sidhu

Oracle concepts…

June 13, 2007 at 10:16 PM · 1 min · 197 words · Amardeep Sidhu

IMPORT & EXPORT from/to compressed files directly…

June 6, 2007 at 8:57 PM · 3 min · 628 words · Amardeep Sidhu

May  5

Burning your “OC”, whyz and howz …

May 30, 2007 at 8:32 PM · 4 min · 786 words · Amardeep Sidhu

Tom Kyte…

May 22, 2007 at 11:13 PM · 1 min · 30 words · Amardeep Sidhu

Run levels in *nix…

May 14, 2007 at 11:02 PM · 1 min · 22 words · Amardeep Sidhu

Using NTLDR to boot Linux…

May 6, 2007 at 9:26 AM · 3 min · 502 words · Amardeep Sidhu

Command line history in SQL (for Linux)…

May 4, 2007 at 8:35 PM · 1 min · 145 words · Amardeep Sidhu

April  3

Utilities I cant survive without…

April 16, 2007 at 2:46 PM · 3 min · 438 words · Amardeep Sidhu

NO_DATA_FOUND…

April 13, 2007 at 1:01 PM · 1 min · 35 words · Amardeep Sidhu

{ Height of } Helplessness…

April 1, 2007 at 7:11 PM · 5 min · 941 words · Amardeep Sidhu

March  4

Viruses, Intrusion attempts and Norton…

March 25, 2007 at 11:22 PM · 2 min · 304 words · Amardeep Sidhu

Intelligent people, geeks and nerds…

March 19, 2007 at 1:46 PM · 2 min · 394 words · Amardeep Sidhu

Running Linux from inside Windows…

March 16, 2007 at 12:44 AM · 1 min · 154 words · Amardeep Sidhu

RSS Feeds…

March 14, 2007 at 12:47 PM · 2 min · 260 words · Amardeep Sidhu

2006  1

September  1

Small things…

September 27, 2006 at 4:18 PM · 4 min · 777 words · Amardeep Sidhu