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Oracle OERR Utility
What is OERR Utility
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What is Parallel Server ?
Multiple instances accessing the same database (Only In Multi-CPU environments)
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What is clusters ?
Group of tables physically stored together because they share common columns and are often used together is called Cluster.
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What is a deadlock ? Explain .
Two processes wating to update the rows of a table which are locked by the other process then deadlock arises. In a database environment this will often happen because of not issuing proper row lock commands. Poor design of front-end application may cause this situation and the performance of server will reduce drastically. These locks...
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What is a latch?
Latches are low level serialization mechanisms used to protect shared data structures in the SGA. The implementation of latches is operating system dependent, particularly in regard to whether a process will wait for a latch and for how long.A latch is a type of a lock that can be very quickly acquired and freed. Latches are typically used to prevent more than one process from executing the same piece...
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Latches vs Enqueues
Enqueues are another type of locking mechanism used in Oracle. An enqueue is a more sophisticated mechanism which permits several concurrent processes to have varying degree of sharing of "known" resources. Any object which can be concurrently used, can be protected with enqueues. A good example is of locks on tables. We allow varying levels of sharing on tables e.g. two processes can lock a table...
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Oracle DBA Interview Questions
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