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End of an Era

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With sadness yesterday saw Sun Microsystems becoming a wholly-owned subsidiary of Oracle.

Oracle Parameters on Solaris 10

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

Oracle lsnrctl commands

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

Enable/Disable archivelog mode

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

Oracle export and import Utilities

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

System Global Area (SGA)

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

What is LSSV?

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This is an abbreviation for Legato Single Server Version which a special NetWorker version which is delivered with the Oracle database software.