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		<title>NBA MVP Voting</title>
		<link>http://mnsinger.wordpress.com/2007/03/26/nba-mvp-voting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2007 03:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Chapter 25 &#8211; Diagnosing Oracle Database Issues</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Sep 2006 13:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Intro

There are two distinct sources for alert info in Oracle

Background processes &#8211; these create trace files and add data to alert logs.  This cannot be configured.
Database alert system &#8211; runs from within the database and is completely configurable



The Alert Log

As soon as an instance starts, critical messages are written to the alert log (and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mnsinger.wordpress.com&blog=349599&post=44&subd=mnsinger&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 24 &#8211; Using RMAN to Back Up Databases</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:36:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Intro

There are four interfaces for using RMAN:

DB Control / Enterprise Manager
Batch mode / cron
Pipe interface
RMAN executable



RMAN in Batch Mode

run {
allocate channel t1 type sbt_tape;
&#8230;
backup copy of database delete input;}

The RMAN Pipe Interface

Uses the PL/SQL package DBMS_PIPE which allows one database session to communicate with another.  It does this by creating a data structure called [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mnsinger.wordpress.com&blog=349599&post=43&subd=mnsinger&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Create a Recovery Catalog in 10g</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2006 01:12:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Create a database with dbca called rcat
C:\&#62; sqlplus SYS/pass@rcat AS SYSDBA
SQL&#62; CREATE SMALLFILE TABLESPACE catalog_tbs DATAFILE &#8216;F:\ORACLE\..\cat_tbs.dbf&#8217; SIZE 20M AUTOEXTEND ON  NEXT  5M  UNLIMITED LOGGING EXTENT MANAGEMENT LOCAL SEGMENT SPACE MANAGEMENT AUTO
SQL&#62; CREATE USER rcat IDENTIFIED BY rcat  DEFAULT TABLESPACE catalog_tbs  QUOTA UNLIMITED ON catalog_tbs;
SQL&#62; GRANT recovery_catalog_owner TO rcat;
SQL&#62; Grant [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mnsinger.wordpress.com&blog=349599&post=42&subd=mnsinger&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 23 &#8211; Getting Started with Oracle Recovery Manager</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Sep 2006 12:56:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recovery Manager Features

Backup of database plus archive logs made since the backup will be able to survive any data loss as long as redo log groups, exist.
RMAN can backup:

Whole databases
Tablespaces
Datafiles
Controlfile
Spfile (static pfile cannot be backed up)
Archive logs


Online redo logs are only protected by multiplexing and cannot be backed up.
RMAN can create incremental backups, image copies [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mnsinger.wordpress.com&blog=349599&post=41&subd=mnsinger&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 21 &#8211; Managing Globalization in Oracle Databases</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Sep 2006 19:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
 NLS stands for National Language Support but it entails much more than just language.

Globalization Capabilities
Character Sets

Some applications (MS Word) use the character sets provided with the OS, while Oracle provides its own character sets which means that it is the same on all platforms.
Single-byte character sets use only one byte (8 bits or less) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mnsinger.wordpress.com&blog=349599&post=39&subd=mnsinger&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 36 &#8211; Automating Administrative Tasks</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2006 14:49:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Scheduler Architecture

The DBA_SCHEDULER_JOBS view in the data dictionary holds info for all scheduled jobs.
The background process CJQ0 monitors the table and launches other processes &#8211; Jnnn &#8211; to run the jobs.
The Jnnn process relies on the parameter JOB_QUEUE_PROCESSES, which defaults to 0.  If it is set to 0, then jobs won&#8217;t run.

Scheduler Objects
Jobs

A [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mnsinger.wordpress.com&blog=349599&post=38&subd=mnsinger&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 35 &#8211; Managing Oracle Database Resources</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2006 16:25:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Resource Manager Architecture

Users are placed in Consumer Groups and Resource Plans to control and manage the allocation of resources across the groups.
It is configured by default.

Consumer Groups

Set of users with similar resource requirements
A user can be a member of multiple groups
At any given moment, a user session can only have one active group
Requires a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mnsinger.wordpress.com&blog=349599&post=37&subd=mnsinger&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 34 &#8211; Monitoring and Managing Memory</title>
		<link>http://mnsinger.wordpress.com/2006/09/05/chapter-34-monitoring-and-managing-memory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Sep 2006 13:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The System Global Area

SGA components are sized in granules.  A granule is an area of contiguous memory.

The exception to this is the log buffer, which is not sized in granules.
Regardless of what size you specify for a particular SGA component, it will be rounded up to the next whole granule.

The exclusion is again the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mnsinger.wordpress.com&blog=349599&post=36&subd=mnsinger&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chapter 33 &#8211; Managing Storage with Automatic Storage Management</title>
		<link>http://mnsinger.wordpress.com/2006/08/31/chapter-33-managing-storage-with-automatic-storage-management/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mnsinger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Intro

ASM stands for Automatic Storage Management.
ASM is an Oracle-aware LVM (logical volume manager) that can stripe and mirror database files across a number of physical devices.

The Purpose of a Logical Volume Manager

An LVM allows putting many physical volumes into arrays that can be treated as one huge disk area and then partitioned into as many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mnsinger.wordpress.com&blog=349599&post=33&subd=mnsinger&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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