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Tips & Tricks

Q.: How to see installed options like Oracle Text,OLS etc.
A.: select * from v$option

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On my XE the result was:
(54 rows returned)

Partitioning	FALSE
Objects	TRUE
Real Application Clusters	FALSE
Advanced replication	FALSE
Bit-mapped indexes	FALSE
Connection multiplexing	TRUE
Connection pooling	TRUE
Database queuing	TRUE
Incremental backup and recovery	TRUE
Instead-of triggers	TRUE
[...]	[...]

Oraspeed 2.7

Oraspeed 2.7 has been released.
Features: Using this Oracle IDE you can write and test Queries. Create, Compile, Execute and Debug your PL/SQL Programs. Execute Anonymous PL/SQL Blocks. Create/Edit Database object using advanced wizards. TKProf, PL/SQL Profiler, Parent Child Tables Data Explorer,Built-in reports, BLOB Editor and much more.

Interesting thing is how these products compare to Oracle's free SQLDeveloper or Qwest's TOAD. Any comments?

Project Lockdown by Arup Nanda

Article Abstract:

(Arup Nanda) Imagine that you have just landed a new job as a DBA. On your first day, you hear rumors of an impending security audit driven by Sarbanes-Oxley requirements. You need to get to know your environment as soon as possible, so you know where to look and understand when to take immediate or preventive action.

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DBA Interview Questions

1. Explain how you would restore a database using RMAN to Point in Time?
   
2. How does Oracle guarantee data integrity of data changes?
   
3. Which environment variables are absolutely critical in order to run the OUI?
   
4. What SQL query from v$session can you run to show how many sessions are logged in as a particular user account?
   
5. Why does Oracle not permit the use of PCTUSED with indexes?
   
6. What would you use to improve performance on an insert statement that places millions of
   rows into that table?
   
7. What would you do with an "in-doubt" distributed transaction?
   
8. What are the commands you?d issue to show the explain plan for "select * from dual"?
   
9. In what script is "snap$" created? In what script is the "scott/tiger" schema created?
   
10. If you?re unsure in which script a sys or system-owned object is created, but you know it?s in a script from a specific directory, what UNIX command from that directory structure can you run to find your answer?
    
11. How would you configure your networking files to connect to a database by the name of DSS which resides in domain icallinc.com?
    
12. You create a private database link and upon connection, fails with: ORA-2085: connects to . What is the problem? How would you go about resolving this error?
    
13. I have my backup RMAN script called "backup_rman.sh". I am on the target database. My catalog username/password is rman/rman. My catalog db is called rman. How would you run this shell script from the O/S such that it would run as a background process?
    
14. Explain the concept of the DUAL table.
    
15. What are the ways tablespaces can be managed and how do they differ?
    
16. From the database level, how can you tell under which time zone a database is operating?
    
17. What?s the benefit of "dbms_stats" over "analyze"?
    
18. Typically, where is the conventional directory structure chosen for Oracle binaries to reside?
    
19. You have found corruption in a tablespace that contains static tables that are part of a database that is in NOARCHIVE log mode. How would you restore the tablespace without losing new data in the other tablespaces?
    
20. How do you recover a datafile that has not been physically been backed up since its creation and has been deleted. Provide syntax example.
    

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ApEx 2.2 Evaluation

Looks like the ApEx folks have an Evaluation Version of ApEx 2.2. There are also some new icons and themes... more and more.


Apex 2.2 update


Here are some other new or improved features in APEX 2.2:

Application Deployment Packaging

Component Attributes Screens (eg Regions, Items, Computations, & Processes)

Copy Application Feature

Finder Utility

Monitoring - Application Reports

Timestamp support

Report Attributes Page

Improved Page Debug Messages

Re-Ordering Widgets

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