column currdate new_value pvmdt noprint select ‘pvm_comp_’ || to_char(SYSDATE, ‘DDMONRRRR_HH24MI’) || ‘.sql’ currdate from v$instance; spool &pvmdt set lines 120 pages 2000 set head off set feedback off prompt set pages 5000 lines 120 prompt select ‘prompt ‘||a.owner||’.’||a.object_name||’ – ‘||a.object_type|| chr(10)|| prompt ‘alter ‘|| prompt decode(a.object_type,’PACKAGE BODY’,’PACKAGE’,object_type) || ‘ “‘|| prompt a.owner||’”.’||a.object_name||’ compile ‘|| prompt…
Problem Description ——————- You create a database event trigger that fires each time a user connects to the database. For any reason, the login trigger becomes invalid. (The trigger is retrieving information from a table that may be inadvertently dropped.) Who can connect? Solution Description ——————– Connect under a user who owns the following system…
WARNING ======= The method described in this article is not officially supported by development, therefore when you get errors using this procedure support cannot file a bug for it. Please make no mistakes when setting the HEX value with the VALUES keyword as bad values may cause internal errors. This undocumented feature exists to support…
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Problem: ~~~~~~~~ When you upgrade the database from Oracle V7 to V8, and then create a profile which limits password_life_time, existing users cannot login to the database. New users can login without a problem. To reproduce this problem: 1. Create a test user (test1) in a V7 database: grant connect, resource to test1 identified by…
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set lines 120 pages 2000 accept pvm prompt “Enter The String You Want to Search -> ” select distinct owner, name, type from dba_source where instr(upper(text), upper(‘&pvm’)) != 0 ; set serveroutput on DECLARE CURSOR cur_triggers IS SELECT owner, trigger_name, table_name, trigger_body FROM dba_triggers; v_position INTEGER; BEGIN DBMS_OUTPUT.ENABLE(NULL); DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(‘OWNER TABLE NAME TRIGGER NAME ‘); DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(‘===================================================================================================’)…
Problem Description: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ How do you make all trace files that Oracle creates readable to owner, group, and world or public? Any “*.trc” files created by Oracle have permissions of 640, with owner of Oracle and group DBA. For example: -rw-r—– oracle dba Setting umask in the users login script (.cshrc or .profile) does not…
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1. Set in INIT.ORA the parameter resource_limit = true and restart Database. Since Oracle 9iR2 (9.2.0.1) you can perform this without restarting Database by issuing as SYS: alter system set resource_limit=true; 2. Connect to Database as SYSTEM or SYS and create the following Profile: create profile single_user limit sessions_per_user 1; The other parameters should be…
Problem Description ——————- The DBA needs to know which values are assigned to limits set to DEFAULT for a given profile. Querying DBA_PROFILES does not display the actual values but rather lists DEFAULT for those LIMITs. Solution Description ——————– From the SQL*Plus prompt, type: SQL> select * from dba_profiles where profile = ‘DEFAULT’; PROFILE RESOURCE_NAME…
The REFERENCES object privilege allows a user to describe a table for which he has been granted the privilege on.
Normal triggering events doesn’t succeed when corresponding triggers fails. But there is EXCEPTION for STARTUP events: STARTUP events succeed even if the trigger fails. There are also exceptions for SHUTDOWN events and for LOGON events if you login as SYSTEM
