What view(s) do you use to associate a users SQLPLUS session with his o/s process?
What is the recommended interval at which to run statspack snapshots, and why?
What spfile/init.ora file parameter exists to force the CBO to make the execution path of a given statement use an index, even if the index scan may appear to be calculated as more costly?
Assuming today is Monday, how would you use the DBMS_JOB package to schedule the execution of a given procedure owned by SCOTT to start Wednesday at 9AM and to run subsequently every other day at 2AM.
How would you edit your CRONTAB to schedule the running of /test/test.sh to run every other day at 2PM?
What do the 9i dbms_standard.sql_txt() and dbms_standard.sql_text() procedures do?
How would you best determine why your MVIEW couldnt FAST REFRESH?
How does propagation differ between Advanced Replication and Snapshot Replication (read-only)?
Which dictionary view(s) would you first look at to understand or get a high-level idea of a given Advanced Replication environment?
How would you begin to troubleshoot an ORA-3113 error?
Which dictionary tables and/or views would you look at to diagnose a locking issue?
An automatic job running via DBMS_JOB has failedKnowing only that its failed, how do you approach troubleshooting this issue?
What query tells you how much space a tablespace named test is taking up, and how much space is remaining?
Database is hung. Old and new user connections alike hang on impact. What do you do? Your SYS SQLPLUS session IS able to connect.
Database crashes. Corruption is found scattered among the file system neither of your doing nor of Oracles. What database recovery options are available? Database is in archive log mode.