Checks to be performed at the machine level (note the example is Red Hat Linux)

run queue should be ideally not more than the number of CPU’s on the machine

At the maximum it should never be more than twice the number of CPU’s.

This is denoted by the column ‘r’ in the vmstat output shown below

vmstat – 5

face:/opt/oracle>vmstat 5
procs memory swap io system cpu
r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa
4 1 488700 245704 178276 12513572 0 1 10 17 48 1365 40 12 43 5

When importing table that contained custom type, you will encounter an oracle error as shown below:
Import of table containing object type(s) fails with IMP-00061 IMP-00063

cause:
When you import a table that references a type, but a type of that name
already exists in the database. Import attempts to verify that the pre-existing
type is in fact the type used by the table(rather than a different type that
just happens to have the same name).

RMAN is recommended for backups/restore of oracle databases.It is a very powerful tool and has variety of useful features.There is 'checksyntax' feature in RMAN which allows one to check RMAN scripts syntactically without executing it.This feature is available from 10G release 2.It proves to be useful for checking scriptsfor live databases where one doesnt have leisure to execute scripts any time and any times!!

bash-3.00$ vi rman_bkp.rman

RUN {
ALLOCATE CHANNEL c1 TYPE DISK FORMAT '/data/backup/Hotbkp_Full_%D_%d_%s_%p'; BACKUP database; RELEASE CHANNEL c1;
allocate channel c2 type dis

Here’s an alternative to the union statement for creating a collection of values using the Oracle SQL Model construct in 10g.

[code]--Using SQL Model clause to return a list of items.

SELECT col_1 Product, col_2 Price, col_3 Description
FROM (SELECT -1 col_id,
RPAD ('X', 30) col_1,
TO_NUMBER(RPAD ('1', 3)) col_2,
RPAD ('X', 40) col_3
--Change RPAD number to reflect length of column value.
FROM DUAL)
WHERE col_id <> -1
MODEL
DI

Make Your SQL Statements Readable

Even though readability doesn't affect the actual performance of SQL statements, good programming practice calls for readable code. Readability is especially important if you have multiple conditions in the WHERE clause.

According to the Enterprise System Spectator's website Oracle is busy laying off a large number of employees. According to the article, 8000 people or 10-15% of the company's workforce will lose their jobs today. Apparently similar layoffs are happening at SAP, Infor and possibly several other companies.

Several Oracle employees confirmed these layoffs at LayoffBlog.com.

Answer: Although this may be a undervalued question, I got many a search for my blog with this question. This is where I wanted to address this question elaborately or rather in multiple ways.

I've been working on way to capture changed rows using ora_rowscn for part of an ETL routine. Here are some details of what I've tested and found.

By default, the ora_rowscn pseudo column reports the scn at block level. This means that rows sharing the same block will have the same ora_rowscn, and if one row were to be changed, then scn would be altered for both blocks.

Pro Oracle Spatial for Oracle Database 11g shows how to take advantage of Oracle Databases built–in feature set for working with location–based data. A great deal of the information used in business today is associated with location in some way, and analysis of that data is becoming ever more important in todays mobile and highly connected world. In Pro Oracle Spatial for Oracle Database 11g, authors Ravi Kothuri and Albert Godfrind address

It’s sometimes said that the true job of an Oracle database administrator can be summed up in one, essential skill: to be able to recover your database.

There’s much wisdom in that statement. Of all the things you are responsible for as a database administrator, nothing is more important than the data itself. Like it or not, the fearsome responsibility of protecting your organizations most critical data falls squarely upon your shoulders:

• Lose that data and your company could fail.
• Lose that data and you could be out of a job.