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	<title>Timothy E. Archer &#187; Oracle</title>
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		<title>Oracle 11g: What Happens When Setting SGA_MAX_SIZE less than SGA_TARGET?</title>
		<link>http://timarcher.com/blog/2011/04/oracle-11g-what-happens-when-setting-sga_max_size-less-than-sga_target/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://timarcher.com/blog/?p=252</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever hosed up your memory parameters such that you cannot get Oracle to even enter the startup nomount state? Here I&#8217;ll do just that by setting sga_max_size to a value less than sga_target, and then trying to start the database. First a sanity check so you can see the memory parameters. In this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle &#8211; Determine Objects Using The Most Space And Clean Them Up (Pack Tables and Rebuild Indexes)</title>
		<link>http://timarcher.com/blog/2007/07/oracle-determine-objects-using-the-most-space-and-clean-them-up-pack-tables-and-rebuild-indexes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2007 15:34:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So you keep extending your Oracle datafiles, but do you know what objects are the true space hogs? I use the query below, to look at the size of the objects in a specific tablespace. SELECT owner, segment_name, segment_type, tablespace_name, bytes FROM DBA_SEGMENTS WHERE TABLESPACE_NAME = 'DEVELOPMENT' ORDER BY bytes desc This will give me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Changing The Oracle Listener Port (10gR2)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2007 01:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://timarcher.com/blog/?p=149</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On the Oracle systems that I manage I typically like to add a simple layer of security by changing the port that the listener listens on. Given that I work for an institution that allows the public to connect to its internal network, and since that network has an Oracle Database server on it, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle Database (10gR2) Init Script &#8211; /etc/init.d/dbora</title>
		<link>http://timarcher.com/blog/2007/04/oracle-database-10gr2-init-script-etcinit-ddbora/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2007 01:34:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://timarcher.com/blog/?p=152</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Many Oracle shops want their database to automatically start when their server boots up, and to automatically shutdown when they shutdown the server. Below I will share with you the Oracle init script that I use on my server. It has been tested with Oracle 10gR2 on RedHat Linux AS3. Login as the root user [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Running SQLPlus and PL/SQL Commands From A Shell Script</title>
		<link>http://timarcher.com/blog/2007/04/running-sqlplus-and-plsql-commands-from-a-shell-script/</link>
		<comments>http://timarcher.com/blog/2007/04/running-sqlplus-and-plsql-commands-from-a-shell-script/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2007 01:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://timarcher.com/blog/?p=180</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The need often arises to run Oracle SQL scripts or PL/SQL procedures from a shell script. For instance, in my environment we run a lot of jobs through cron. Part of the job may be to connect to the database and run a PL/SQL function or procedure. Below I will describe how to do this, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using the Oracle DBMS_RANDOM Package To Generate Random Numbers</title>
		<link>http://timarcher.com/blog/2007/03/sing-the-oracle-dbms_random-package-to-generate-random-numbers/</link>
		<comments>http://timarcher.com/blog/2007/03/sing-the-oracle-dbms_random-package-to-generate-random-numbers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:42:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oracle]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://timarcher.com/blog/?p=235</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever needed to generate a random number within your Oracle PL/SQL code? I recently had a need to just this. My requirement was to generate a random 6 digit pin number for users to login to our web systems with. I found that the dbms_random package does exactly what I need, and is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Useful Unix Shell Prompt for Oracle Database Servers</title>
		<link>http://timarcher.com/blog/2007/03/useful-unix-shell-prompt-for-oracle-database-servers/</link>
		<comments>http://timarcher.com/blog/2007/03/useful-unix-shell-prompt-for-oracle-database-servers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2007 02:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://timarcher.com/blog/?p=241</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One minor thing I do on all of my unix based Oracle database servers is setup the shell prompt to give me some key information. Namely, I always want to see my current directory, the user I am logged in as, the server I am logged into, and my current ORACLE_SID. Since I typically have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle External Procedure to Run Host Commands</title>
		<link>http://timarcher.com/blog/2007/03/oracle-external-procedure-to-run-host-commands/</link>
		<comments>http://timarcher.com/blog/2007/03/oracle-external-procedure-to-run-host-commands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 02:49:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oracle]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://timarcher.com/blog/?p=247</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One common piece of framework I have always needed when writing Oracle based applications is the ability to execute a host command in line with my PL/SQL code. Sometimes I do something as simple as echo a value to a file, to more complex shell scripts for calling programs to render PDF&#8217;s, send emails, etc. [...]]]></description>
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