Until last Thursday I was the Vice President of CLOUG (Chilean Oracle Users Group, www.cloug.org), but by request of the members I was now elected president of CLOUG. This will be a big challenge due to the distance between my primary house and my birth country (over 10.000 km), but I love it, and I’ll keep…
Category: General
How to solve the error “EXP-00056: ORACLE error 19206″ during an export
If you see the error EXP-00056 with Oracle error 19206 (like show bellow) when executing a export of an entire schema in Oracle 9i or 10g, don’t panic. The solution is easy. EXP-00056: ORACLE error 19206 encountered ORA-19206: Invalid value for query or REF CURSOR parameter ORA-06512: at “SYS.DBMS_XMLGEN”, line 83 ORA-06512: at “SYS.DBMS_METADATA”, line…
Some good time with the Family
Here are some pictures from our current family vacation in the NZ south island. Happy 2009, Francisco Munoz Alvarez
Reporting from Gold Coast – AUSOUG 2008 Conference – Part II
Hi folks, Two down and just one more to finish this year presentations. The Gold Coast conference was excellent, I made some very good friends (I hope) and I got some very good feedbacks and tips regarding my presentation. This time I had a little more time to share with some fantastic and friendly people…
Reporting from Gold Coast – AUSOUG 2008 Conference (Pre-Conference Notes)
Hello, The flight was great, Ufff I was a little scare 🙂 only the weather is not helping but I hope to have the opportunity to go to the beach and enjoy a little before Wednesday Night. Gold Coast looks to be a nice place, the airport is very little and don’t have almost anything…
Pre-Gold Coast Conference
Here I’m, preparing my luggage for this trip and enjoying my family for few moments. This will be my second conference in 2 weeks. This kind of situation is a little new for me due that I was a speaker in the past just for a few and small conferences, and If you asked me few…
Are you having problems with the OEM Host Credential?
If you are using LINUX/Windows the hostname credentials should be the same user who has installed the oracle database software, if Windows the user you are using need to be member of the ORA_DBA group and have Local Security privilege ‘Log on as a batch job’. What you need to do is go to: Start—->…
Some News for RAT (Real Application Testing)
“Real Application Testing is Now Available for Earlier Releases“ Oracle Database 11g introduced Database Replay and SQL Performance Analyzer as part of the Real Application Testing option to enable businesses identifies issues with system changes before production deployment in other words, Oracle Real Application Testing facilitates the testing and validation of system changes by recording…
How to migrate from 32 bit to 64 bit using RMAN?
This procedure can be used for single instance or RAC (9i to 11g): In the 32 bit source server : Start making a full backup of the database including all archivelogs: RMAN> run { allocate channel c1 type disk; allocate channel c2 type disk; backup database plus archivelog; backup current controlfile; } In the target 64 bit server:1)…
What does g in Oracle 10g signify?
“G”rid is nothing but a term that is there to tell us that there are resources which are scattered at several different locations/pc’s but we are using and maintaining those resources as one. For us its just one thing that we are managing. The basic goal of grid computing is the transparency that should be given…