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How to reset MySQL root password

Have you forgotten MariaDB root password? You don't know how to recover it. Not to worry, use these steps to reset MariaDB root password.

How to reset MariaDB root password

Have you forgotten MariaDB root password? You don't know how to recover it. Not to worry, use these steps to reset MariaDB root password.

Oracle lsnrctl commands

The listener process runs on the database server. It receives client requests and manages the traffic of these requests to the database server.

Oracle export and import Utilities

Export (exp) and import (imp) are the Oracle utilities used to perform logical database backup and recovery.

System Global Area (SGA)

The maximum size of a single shared memory segment is specified by the shmmax (shm_max on Tru64 UNIX) kernel parameter.

Oracle Users and Passwords

The default accounts are: sys, system, dbsnmp and sysman. The following table provides a basic description of the of the default users.

Oracle background processes

An oracle database is run as an instance. A database server can run multiple instances and each instance is made up of different components.

Enable/Disable archivelog mode

The following are the steps required to enable archive log mode on an Oracle 10g or 11g database.

Quick start on Oracle 8i and Solaris

This page assumes you want an oracle install on a single disk, with minimum memory, to just play around with oracle and learn the basics.

Oracle Parameters on Solaris 10

The table below shows the System V IPC parameter and the corresponding Soalris resource controls for Oracle on Sun Solaris 10 OS.