ORA-15655: preliminary connection+oradebug direct_access

ORA-15655: Fixed table \\”%s\\” cannot be accessed safely in prelim connection.  When  login to oracle using preliminary connection ( wrote about it few days ago )

Getting Oracle stack using Oradebug short_stack

To collect stack traces for debugging I normaly use on OS debuggers like (pstacke, gdb, dbx – it depends on which platform Oracle runs ) .From Oracle I would run oradebug commands dump errorstack or    oradebug short_stack command.Today I will focus on oradebug short_stack

sqlplus preliminary connection..

I had a very interesting case today when database hang and I was not able to make connection.. First thing I had in mind was to generate system state dumps.In the past I used debugger but I remember that sqplus has option which makes  database connection “light” meaning it doesn not create session but has limited access … Read more

ORA-03135 : Database Resident Connection Pool

Trying to setup DRCP   11g patchset 11.1.0.6 on Linux x86-64.. The pool can be configured using the PLSQL package DBMS_CONNECTION_POOL. First start connection pool ( I am using default parameters ):   SQL> execute dbms_connection_pool.start_pool; PL/SQL procedure successfully completed. Then simply change tnsnames.ora  and  set SERVER=POOLED    Let’s try to connect   C:\Documents and Settings\admin>sqlplus system@demo11g … Read more

Script to show disk usage/allocation of VxVM/SEVM disk groups

I  used run this  script on Solaris …  You can customize it  e.g. ( to display certain groups only ) Usage:  vxusage -a | -l | diskgroup_name