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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 16:21:30 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Compressing Partitioned Tables</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:08:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently wrote a script to compress certain partitions in a table. Basically any partition that was loaded and analyzed I wanted to move to a new tablespace and compress the data. The script basically spools out the SQL into a file and then runs that file. Here is the code specifically related to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resetting an Enterprise Manager Agent</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are times when your Enterprise Manager Agent needs to be cleared out and rest. Here are some very simple steps. Set your agent home. This is specific to you configuration. export AGENT_HOME=/app/oracle/product/gc10.2/agent10g/ Stop the agent $AGENT_HOME/bin/emctl stop agent Clean up an pending files rm -r $AGENT_HOME/sysman/emd/state/* rm -r $AGENT_HOME/sysman/emd/upload/* rm $AGENT_HOME/sysman/emd/lastupld.xml rm $AGENT_HOME/sysman/emd/agntstmp.txt rm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Script to shrink a tablespace</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To shrink a tablespace in Oracle you actually need to shrink the datafiles that make up the tablespace. You can only shrink a datafile down to the high water mark (HWM). There are several methods to reduce the HWM, but I am not going to address those in this post. If you want to return [...]]]></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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		<title>Purge the Recyclebin in Oracle</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know Oracle has a recycle bin? When you drop a table it goes into the recycle bin assuming you have the feature turned on. If you are trying to reclaim space simply dropping a table will not do it. You need to also purge the table from the recycle bin. You can purge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to export with data pump</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:13:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have always used Oracle good old export utility to backup the logical definition of all my databases. In addition to using RMAN backup I feel a logical dump of the database is a good idea. I have now started using Oracle&#8217;s data pump utility. I work quite well, but does operate a bit differently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle RAC Project Starts Tomorrow</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A I previously described I will started a new Oracle RAC project. If everything goes as planned I will get my hands on the 2 node setup tomorrow. I have been busy researching 3PAR and enhancements to 11G. I will be installing 11G and implementing all new data warehouse ETL code.]]></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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