Tracing Sessions with Shared Server
This script is Exhibit 1 from the article "Using Sharer Server (MTS) in Atypical Environments," from the June 2003 issue of Oracle Internals. This Perl script searches all the shared server trace files for a session's trace output and put it together in a single file.
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Internals of Oracle Bottleneck Performance Analysis
Here are scripts from the above article in the October 2002 issue of Oracle Internals.
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Table Maintenance Made Easy Using Oracle 9i Online Table Redefinitions
This script is Exhibit 1 from the article "Table Maintenance Made Easy Using Oracle 9i Online Table Redefinitions," from the September 2002 issue of Oracle
Internals.
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Don's Hot Tip: A Script to Check the Frequency of Log Switches
Not many DBAs are aware of the v$log_history view, and how it can be used to plot the frequency of online redo log switches. You can run the following script from the July 2002 issue of Oracle Internals to provide a complete log history.
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Extending STATSPACK for Oracle Application Concurrent Manager Monitoring
This is Exhibit 1 from "Extending STATSPACK for Oracle Application Concurrent Manager Monitoring," which
appeared in the June 2002 issue of Oracle
Internals.
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Extending Statspack: Performance Reports and Analysis from a Central Database
Scripts from "Extending Statspack: Performance Reports and Analysis from a Central Database
by Joe Bernens from May 2002 issue of Oracle Internals.
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Extending STATSPACK: Performance Reports and Analysis from a Central Database
Correction: Figure 2 from "Extending Statspack: Performance Reports and Analysis from a Central Database" from Oracle Internals, May 2002.
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Locating Locked Rows and Serializing Transactions
Exhibits from "Locating Locked Rows and Serializing Transactions" in Oracle Internals, October 2001
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Using Cursor Varibles
Exhibits from "Using Cursor Varibles" from Oracle Internals, August 2001
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Text Messaging from Oracle Applications Made Easy
Exhibits from "Text Messaging from Oracle Applications Made Easy" in Oracle Internals, September 2001
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Using Cursor Variables with Oracle's Report Builder
Exhibits from "Using Cursor Variables with Oracle's Report Builder" in Oracle Internals, September 2001
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Registering a Metadata Schema
The following accompany the article "Registering a Metadata Schema," which
appeared in the September 2000 issue of Oracle
Internals.
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How I Reorganized a Large
Database
The following scripts accompany the article "How I Reorganized a Large
Database,"
written by Biju Thomas. The article
appeared in the August 2000 issue of Oracle
Internals.
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The Supporting GROUPS (July 2000)
This article first appeared in the July 2000 issue of Oracle
Internals.
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The TO_FORMAT Function
This code is from an article that appeared in the June
2000 issue of Oracle
Internals.
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Oracle Session Monitoring
Text was excerpted and scripts taken from the May 2000 issue of
Oracle Internals
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Strategies for an Archives Management Program
Conclusion of "Strategies for an Archives Management Program from the May 2000 issue of Oracle Internals.
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Tips and Scripts for Implementing RMAN
The following scripts accompany the article "Tips and Scripts for
Implementing RMAN," which was published in the April 2000 issue of
Oracle Internals
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Enforcing Column Naming Standards Using Designer 2000
The following scripts appeared in the April 2000 issue of
Oracle Internals.
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Alert Mechanisms for
RMAN Backups
The following script accompanies the article "Alert Mechanisms for
RMAN Backups," which was published in the March 2000 issue of
Oracle Internals.
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Enterprise Transformation and Data Management
The complete article from the March 2000 issue of Oracle Internals.
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Undocumented Express
From the February 2000 issue of Oracle Internals, a description of a series
of undocumented Express tips and functions that take advantage of Express’ flexibility.
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Building a Java Applet for Monitoring Oracle
These scripts are taken from the two-part article, "Building a Java
Applet For Monitoring Oracle," which appeared in Oracle
Internals in February and March 2000.
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UNIX Scripts for Oracle Administration
These scripts appeared
in the December 1999 issue of Oracle Internals.
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Getting a Quick Start with Oracle8i
This article and code first appeared in Oracle Internals in November 1999.
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UTL_HTTP: Request Methods and Templates
The following is from "An Introduction to UTL_HTTP,"
which was published in Oracle
Internals in November 1999.
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Top DBA Scripts for Web Developers
The scripts were taken from the October 1999 issue of Oracle
Internals.
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Managing Row Level Security in Oracle8i
The following code segments were taken from the October 1999 issue of
Oracle Internals.
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Oracle Express Development in the Enterprise
From the September 1999 issue of Oracle Internals, here's a short example of
some Express 4GL code that loops through a list of Express instances that
in turn establish connections to relational databases and update these
remote Express databases with data from the relational databases.
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Setting PCTFREE, PCTUSED on the Basis of Average
The following is an excerpt from the article, "Managing Oracle Table
Freelists: Part 1," which appeared in the September 1999 issue of
Oracle Internals.
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Creating a View to Externalize X$BH Information
The following is an excerpt from the article "Investigating the Multiple
Buffer Pool Feature of Oracle8," which originally appeared in the August
1999 issue of Oracle Internals.
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Problems with Application Scaling and Some
Remedies
The following is excerpted from "An Approach to Load Analysis and
Stress Testing," in the August 1999 issue of Oracle Internals.
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Determining the Table Rebuild Ratio for Oracle Tables
From the July 1999 issue of Oracle Internals are three scripts in complete SQL, Oracle 7 version, to report rebuild ratio.
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Partition and Conquer
Code examples from "Partition and Conquer" in the July 1999 issue of Oracle Internals.
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Diving Into the Shared Pool
Here are scripts
from "Diving Into the Shared Pool," by Michael Ault, in the April 1999 issue of Oracle Internals.
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Calling UTL_HTTP Directly from Oracle
This is the template from "Calling
UTL_HTTP Directly from Oracle" by Bradley D. Brown
in the April 1999 issue of Oracle Internals.
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Using the DBMS_LOCK Built-In Package
Scripts
from "Using the DBMS_LOCK Built-In Package" by John Beresniewicz in the April 1999 issue of Oracle Internals.
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Don Burleson's Hot Tips:
Using the UNIX iostat Utility to Find Disk Bottlenecks
One little-used free UNIX utility can be very valuable for identifying
disk I/O bottlenecks. The utility is iostat
and here is the command.
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Don Burleson's Hot Tips:
Dumping a Segment Header
It is sometimes very interesting to look inside Oracle data blocks
and see the contents on the data block. The following script will allow you to do this.
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Don's Hot Tip:
An Alert for Table Space Growth
Here is a great script to alert a DBA whenever a tablespace grows
beyond 95% full. This script can be run with a Unix cron every ten minutes, and send
a pager alert to a DBA whenever a data file is needed for a tablespace.
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EAI: Synchronizing Oracle Applications with PeopleSoft
The following scripts accompany the article "EAI: Synchronizing Oracle
Applications with PeopleSoft," which was published in the July 2001 issue of
Oracle Internals.
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Populating Oracle Form Hierarchies Incrementally At
Run Time
This script accompanies the article "Populating Oracle Form Hierarchies Incrementally At
Run Time," which
appeared in the November 2000 issue of Oracle
Internals.
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Library Cache and Shared Pool Testing Script
This script accompanies the article "Piranhas in the Pool:
Investigations into Literal SQL and Oracle Shared Pool Performance," which
appeared in the November 2000 issue of Oracle
Internals.
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File Exchange Solutions: SQL*Loader, PL/SQL, and Proc*C
This script accompanies the article "File Exchange Solutions: SQL*Loader, PL/SQL, and Proc*C," which
appeared in the October 2000 issue of Oracle
Internals.
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The Fast Track to Java with Oracle
This code accompanies the article "The Fast Track to Java with Oracle," which
appeared in the Sepember 2000 issue of Oracle
Internals.
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