October 2014 archive

ORA-24247: network access denied by access control list (ACL)

I have a regularly scheduled job on an Oracle RAC database that will send me an email alert for a condition. This happens every 30 minutes. The job has been failing on one of the nodes, but not the others. The job spits out these errors:   ORA-12012: error on auto execute of job “OWNER”.”JOB_NAME” …

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Oct2014CPU Crashes ArcGIS Desktop

Right after I applied the Oct2014 SPU to our development database, members of our IT staff started complaining that direct-connect connections with ArcCatalog and ArcMap would crash. The app wouldn’t even connect to the database. I tried various things…even upgrading Oracle Client to 11.2.0.4 to match the database version (it was 11.2.0.1) but nothing worked. …

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Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance

Oracle’s standby databases have been around for a long time now. The primary ships redo to the standby to keep them in sync. It seems to be a natural fit that Oracle has now extended this concept to a backup and recovery appliance. The idea is that you take one backup of your database at …

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