Introduction To me the most important thing as a DBA is making sure the data in a database is safe. This means…when there is some sort of failure, you must be completely sure that your backups are working properly. Actually more important then making the backups is making sure you can restore your backups. What […]
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Starting the database [db2inst1@bloemkool ~]$ db2start 01/11/2022 14:57:48 0 0 SQL1063N DB2START processing was successful. SQL1063N DB2START processing was successful. [db2inst1@bloemkool ~]$ Stopping the database [db2inst1@bloemkool ~]$ db2stop 01/11/2022 14:58:43 0 0 SQL1064N DB2STOP processing was successful. SQL1064N DB2STOP processing was successful. [db2inst1@bloemkool ~]$ Stopping the database when there are connections/applications in the database.At first […]
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A basic rman configuration (backups to disk): RMAN> show all; RMAN configuration parameters for database with db_unique_name TINUS are: CONFIGURE RETENTION POLICY TO RECOVERY WINDOW OF 31 DAYS; CONFIGURE BACKUP OPTIMIZATION ON; CONFIGURE DEFAULT DEVICE TYPE TO DISK; CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP ON; CONFIGURE CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP FORMAT FOR DEVICE TYPE DISK TO ‘/u04/backups/tinus/%F’; CONFIGURE DEVICE TYPE […]
Continue Reading$SQLPATH vs $ORACLE_PATH
Every time I install a new oracle machine it hits me: Why is login.sql not executed when I start a sqlplus session. So here is a quick reminder for myself: sqlplus is not looking in $SQLPATH for login.sql ….. it is looking in $ORACLE_PATH So set $ORACLE_PATH and you will be fine. This […]
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