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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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://timarcher.com/blog/?p=38</guid>
		<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>
		<link>http://timarcher.com/blog/2007/04/changing-the-oracle-listener-port/</link>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Linux/Unix]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oracle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[10gR2]]></category>

		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[Oracle]]></category>
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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 Sungard Banner Accounts Receivable API to Create AR transactions</title>
		<link>http://timarcher.com/blog/2007/03/using-the-sungard-banner-accounts-receivable-api-to-create-ar-transactions/</link>
		<comments>http://timarcher.com/blog/2007/03/using-the-sungard-banner-accounts-receivable-api-to-create-ar-transactions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2007 02:27:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Oracle]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://timarcher.com/blog/?p=218</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At the University for which I work, we had a need to integrate our Sungard HE Banner ERP system with Barnes and Noble (our outsourced bookstore) to process book vouchers, and with our credit card processing API (Intellipay). Both of these applications required us to post charges and payments directly to the student’s account. With [...]]]></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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