Thursday, January 26, 2012

TNS-12557: TNS:protocol adapter not loadable

TNS-12557: TNS:protocol adapter not loadable
Might occur on a Windows machine that has two or more Oracle homes installed.

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

ORA-07445 [kkqvSearchLogOpn()]

ORA-07445: exception encountered: core dump [kkqvSearchLogOpn()+15]

Saturday, September 3, 2011

ORA-7445 [nstimexp]

ORA-07445: exception encountered: core dump [nstimexp()+36] [SIGSEGV]

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

ORA-12571: TNS:packet writer failure

This is one of the tricky errors which could have been caused because of various components.

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Upgrading 10g RAC Clusterware to 11g RAC Clusterware

This article lists the steps to upgrade Oracle 10g RAC Clusterware to 11g RAC Clusterware. There are few new requirements in 11g like kernel parameters and SCAN IP which are discussed herewith.

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Sample Listener and Tnsnames files in 11g RAC

The contents of Listener.ora and tnsnames.ora in 11g RAC are shown below.

Friday, March 11, 2011

ORA-31693: Table data object failed to load/unload and is being skipped due to error

Export or Import could fail with the following error:

ORA-31693: Table data object failed to load/unload and is being skipped due to error: