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		<title>ORA-30926: unable to get a stable set of rows in the source tables</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 21:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I received the error &#8220;ORA-30926: unable to get a stable set of rows in the source tables&#8221;. It&#8217;s the first time I have seen this error. I was doing a merge statement affecting about 1K rows. The problem was I was not fully matching on all the of the columns that would make the update [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ORA-00845: MEMORY_TARGET not supported on this system</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I ran into the error &#8220;ORA-00845: MEMORY_TARGET not supported on this system&#8221;. I am still not sure exactly why. I shutdown the instance on a Oracle 11g R2 RAC node. Then a short time later I issued the startup command. The other instance on the other node was running fine and made no changes. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strip carriage return from varchar2 column</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:04:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever needed to strip a carriage return from varchar2 column? Sometime when loading data from different sources I run into these non-printable characters. SQLLDR loaded them just fine, but I try to move the data into another table with specific datatypes it fails. Why? Because there are character that I cannot see and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Killing your own session</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever wanted to kill your own session? You know commit suicide; This works nicely: alter session set events 'immediate crash'; Nothing like a ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel to brighten your day.]]></description>
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		<title>Starting the Oracle Enterprise Manager agent in 11g</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:54:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you need to start the Oracle Enterprise Manager agent in an 11g grid control environment? It&#8217;s pretty simple, here is the command. emctl start agent The biggest issue I see with this is people using the wrong emctl executable. Very often you will have a multiple executables. You may possibly have an emctl in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding currently running SQL</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you needed to find out what SQL was running in the database? Much of my time is spent on out data warehouse where long expensive queries may be running. When someone calls to ask why things are running slow one area to look is what SQL are they running. The database may not be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Killing Oracle Sessions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 16:29:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you need to kill an Oracle session? There are several way to do this. In SQLPlus simply run: ALTER SYSTEM KILL SESSION 'sid,serial#'; You can also run: ALTER SYSTEM KILL SESSION 'sid,serial#' IMMEDIATE; You can also kill sessions from the UNIX level with this command: kill -9 spid This is dangerous and should not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update data in one table with data from another table</title>
		<link>http://www.squaredba.com/update-data-in-one-table-with-data-from-another-table-120.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 20:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Oracle Tip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[functions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever need to update data in one table with data from another table? I do all the time. One way I perform the update is with functions that I built. I pass a column into the function and it returns a result that use in my update statement. This works well if I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ORA-12518 TNS listener could not hand off client connection</title>
		<link>http://www.squaredba.com/ora-12518-tns-listener-could-not-hand-off-client-connection-113.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever seen the error &#8220;ORA-12518 TNS listener could not hand off client connection&#8221;? I did yesterday and it was a pretty simple fix. It turns out the processes for a particular instance was set too low. You can see how many processes are running via this command: select count(*) from v$process; If you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ORA-06564 When Creating a Materialized View</title>
		<link>http://www.squaredba.com/ora-06564-when-creating-a-materialized-view-106.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:07:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oracle How-To]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I needed to create a materialized view and received an error. My syntax was correct. Here is the create statement. CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW SCOTT.STUPID_TABLE BUILD IMMEDIATE REFRESH FORCE START WITH SYSDATE NEXT trunc(sysdate+1) + 22/24 AS select * from BILL.STUPID_TABLE@remote1; and I received this error. ERROR at line 1: ORA-06564: object EXTDIR does not [...]]]></description>
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