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.
Illustrate how to determine the amount of physical CPUs a Unix Box possesses (LINUX and/or Solaris).
How do you increase the OS limitation for open files (LINUX and/or Solaris)?
Provide an example of a shell script which logs into SQLPLUS as SYS, determines the current date, changes the date format to include minutes & seconds, issues a drop table command, displays the date again, and finally exits.
Explain how you would restore a database using RMAN to Point in Time?
How does Oracle guarantee data integrity of data changes?
Which environment variables are absolutely critical in order to run the OUI?
Why does Oracle not permit the use of PCTUSED with indexes?