You will probably not hit this bug unless you perform some media recovery in 11.2.0.1/AIX. Ok. In case you hit ORA-10878: parallel recovery slave died unexpectedly during a DUPLICATE or a RESTORE command, you can disable parallel media recovery with _log_parallelism_max=1. The usual warning applies : do not use hidden parameter without guidance of Oracle […]
Month: May 2011
scp tuning
I twitted yesterday : laurentsch copying 1TB over ssh sucks. How do you fastcopy in Unix without installing Software and without root privilege? I got plenty of expert answers. I have not gone to far in recompile ssh and I did not try plain ftp. Ok, let’s try first to transfer 10 files of 100M […]
What is the current setting of NLS_LANG in sqlplus?
I just learnt a neat trick from Oracle Support. How do you see the current value of NLS_LANG in SQLPLUS ? HOST is not the right answer. E.g.: Unix: SQL> host echo $NLS_LANG AMERICAN_SWITZERLAND Windows: SQL> HOST ECHO %NLS_LANG% %NLS_LANG% The correct setting is revealed by @.[%NLS_LANG%] E.g.: Unix: SQL> @.[$NLS_LANG] SP2-0310: unable to open […]