What is the dataguard background process??

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Typically, where is the conventional directory structure chosen for Oracle binaries to reside?

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Explain the concept of the DUAL table.

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What are the recovery models for a database? : sql server DBA

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What are the different types of indexes available in sql server? : sql server DBA

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Hi This is request to DBA man Q. I have installed Oracle 10g Express edition in Linux fedora Core 6.When i have run the following script for ORACLE _HOME environment variable setting . script is ". /usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server/bin/oracle_env.sh" variable is set but it is working only in current session. If i restart the system again i should run that script. So haw to set permanently ? even i have try with export command for that environment set it also does not work. Q. When i run sqlplus in shell prompt It is working but when i give user name and password the following error come out i.e # sqlplus SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Fri Apr 2 19:45:40 2010 Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved. Enter user-name: system Enter password: ERROR: ORA-01034: ORACLE not available ORA-27101: shared memory realm does not exist Linux Error: 2: No such file or directory I have also proper partition of disk means swap memory are available. # fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40060403712 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4870 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 1275 10241406 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 1276 4870 28876837+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda5 1276 3187 15358108+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda6 3188 4672 11928231 83 Linux /dev/sda7 4673 4863 1534176 82 Linux swap / Solaris

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When creating a user, what permissions must you grant to allow them to connect to the database?

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how can you communicate with operating system files from oracle?

0 Answers   Oracle,

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You create a private database link <link name> and upon connection, fails with: ORA-2085: <Link name> connects to <fully qualified remote db name>. What is the problem? How would you go about resolving this error?

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Does transparent data encryption provide encryption when transmitting data across network? : sql server DBA

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How would you go about increasing the buffer cache hit ratio?

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7. Where should you place Archive logfiles, in the same disk where DB is or another disk? 8. Can you take online backup of a Control file if yes, how? 9. What is a Logical Backup? 10. Should you take the backup of Logfiles if the database is running in ARCHIVELOG mode? 11. Why do you take tablespaces in Backup mode? 12. What is the advantage of RMAN utility? 13. How RMAN improves backup time? 14. Can you take Offline backups using RMAN? 15. How do you see information about backups in RMAN? 21. Where RMAN keeps information of backups if you are using RMAN without Catalog? 22. You have taken a manual backup of a datafile using o/s. How RMAN will know about it? 23. You want to retain only last 3 backups of datafiles. How do you go for it in RMAN? 24. Which is more efficient Incremental Backups using RMAN or Incremental Export? 25. Can you start and shutdown DB using RMAN? 26. How do you recover from the loss of datafile if the DB is running in NOARCHIVELOG mode? 27. You loss one datafile and it does not contain important objects. The important objects are there in other datafiles which are intact. How do you proceed in this situation? 28. You lost some datafiles and you don't have any full backup and the database was running in NOARCHIVELOG mode. What you can do now? 29. How do you recover from the loss of datafile if the DB is running in ARCHIVELOG mode? 30. You loss one datafile and DB is running in ARCHIVELOG mode. You have full database backup of 1 week old and partial backup of this datafile which is just 1 day old. From which backup should you restore this file? 31. You loss controlfile how do you recover from this? 32. The current logfile gets damaged. What you can do now? 33. What is a Complete Recovery? 34. What is Cancel Based, Time based and Change Based Recovery? 35. Some user has accidentally dropped one table and you realize this after two days. Can you recover this table if the DB is running in ARCHIVELOG mode? 36. Do you have to restore Datafiles manually from backups if you are doing recovery using RMAN? 37. A database is running in ARCHIVELOG mode since last one month. A datafile is added to the database last week. Many objects are created in this datafile. After one week this datafile gets damaged before you can take any backup. Now can you recover this datafile when you don't have any backups? 38. How do you recover from the loss of a controlfile if you have backup of controlfile? 39. Only some blocks are damaged in a datafile. Can you just recover these blocks if you are using RMAN? 40. Some datafiles were there on a secondary disk and that disk has become damaged and it will take some days to get a new disk. How will you recover from this situation? 41. Have you faced any emergency situation. Tell us how you resolved it? 42. At one time you lost parameter file accidentally and you don't have any backup. How you will recreate a new parameter file with the parameters set to previous values. 16. What is a Recovery Catalog? 17. Should you place Recovery Catalog in the Same DB? 18. Can you use RMAN without Recovery catalog? 19. Can you take Image Backups using RMAN? 20. Can you use Backupsets created by RMAN with any other utility?

1 Answers   IBM,

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