Answer / nirav gajjar

The "ORA-01555 snapshot too old" error, which causes user
transactions to fail, is a nightmare for Oracle DBAs and
developers. It usually occurs after queries or batch
processes have been running for a long time, which means
you can lose many hours of processing when the error crops
up.

Answer / kittu

The ora-1555 is too old snapshot. In order to fix this e need to increase undo_retention & undo tablespace size

why do we give pctfree and pctused in create table statement?

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How can you gather statistics on a table?

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How to start SQL Server in minimal configuration mode?

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Explain the use of table functions.

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how do we explain a project in cognos in an interview? please help me. Also how do we perform testing in cognos after creating reports?

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Draft one mock email requesting your non-technical management grant you downtime to (provide justification where applicable) complete the following tasks: (1) Generate statistics on a large table; (2) Generate an RDA – if you don't know what an RDA is please say so. (3) Rename datafiles.

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How do you find out from the RMAN catalog if a particular archive log has been backed-up?

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What is the difference between a TEMPORARY tablespace and a PERMANENT tablespace?

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how to restore files with rman?

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what do you understand by fine-grained auditing?

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Due to some maintenance being done, the sql server on a failover cluster needs to be brought down. How do you bring the sql server down? : sql server DBA

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